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Injured ‘Sheriff Joe’ releases hospital bed videos
After falling and breaking his arm while walking through downtown Phoenix on Thursday, Sheriff Joe Arpaio released a pair of videos of himself in a hospital bed, talking about his determination to return to work. According to Talking Points Memo, the 80-year-old sheriff spoke to a woman off camera about…
Steven Seagal joins Arpaio’s ‘posse’ for training on school shootings
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s volunteer “posse” had a special guest on Saturday, as actor and reality show “Lawman” Steven Seagal joined in as it tackled training scenarios in the event of a school shooting. KPNX-TV reported that members of the group conducted their training at a shuttered elementary school, with…
Arpaio plans to use armed volunteer ‘posse’ to patrol local schools
Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio said he plans to send members of his department’s volunteer “posse” to patrol schools as a response to the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. “Everybody else is talking about what their ideas are. They want new laws,” the Maricopa County sheriff told KPNX-TV on…
‘I’m not a bully with a gun,’ says AZ Sheriff Arpaio
LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2012 (AFP) – An Arizona lawman known as the “toughest sheriff in America” hit back at US authorities Friday after he was sued for alleged discrimination against Latinos, saying: “I’m not a bully with a gun.” The US Department of Justice launched legal action Thursday against…
Justice Department sues Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio for ‘targeting Latinos’
The U.S. Department of Justice held a press conference this afternoon to announce its lawsuit against controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for engaging “in a pattern or practice of unlawful discriminatory police conduct directed at Latinos in Maricopa County,” according to “Talking Points Memo.” Arpaio and his office, says the…
NC’s latest Republican birther candidate says Arpaio is a ‘great American’
A Republican running for U.S. House in North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District is continuing to insist that President Barack Obama is not an American citizen because he has examined the birth certificate of one of his staffers who was born in Hawaii. Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday, Dr.…
Prison-based sadism hints at widespread social sadism
The ACLU Reproductive Rights Project sent a press release to me to alert me that they, in conjunction with other branches of the national organization and with the Arizona branch, are filing three separate cases against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County. The reign of Arpaio, who fashions himself a…
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