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Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 10 Craziest Moments
Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Maricopa County, is arguably the most interesting, cruel and controversial name in law enforcement. Sheriff Arpaio seems to treat the Maricopa County Jail as his own personal sideshow and publicity stunt. From making his inmates wear pink underwear to forcing a woman to give birth in shackles; here's a list of the 10 craziest things that the man who has cost Maricopa county over $43 million in lawsuits has ever done with his jailing system.
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Forces Woman to Give Birth on Shackles
Alma Minerva Chacon, who was detained while 9-months pregnant, was terrorized by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The night she was arrested, Chacon went into labor and rushed to a hospital with her hands and legs chained in shackles.
Nurses begged the Sheriff's staff unchain Alma, but they refused and Chacon was forced to give birth while still shackled to the bed. They even denied the nurse's request to release her to go to the bathroom for a urinalysis.
As if that was bad enough, after Chacon gave birth to her baby girl, she was still chained to the bed, and the police staff refused to let Chacon hold her own newborn baby and warned her that if no one came to pick up the child within 72 hours, the child would be turned over into state custody. - 2
Paralyzing a Paraplegic Prisoner
Richeard Post was a paraplegic man, with a colostomy bag, who was arrested for possession of marijuana and trespassing in 1996 by Sheriff Joe's department. Not a very violent, and actually a fairly benign charge, given the breadth of crimes someone could be committing in the Mesa/Phoenix area of Arizona.
For some reason, it was decided by Joe's officers that it was necessary to put Richard Post, a paraplegic man with special needs, in an almost-Guantanamo-Bay-style restraint chair, after he got "unruly" because he pleaded with his captors for need of a catheter with which to urinate.
He spent four hours in the chair begging to be released because a paraplegic's body would most likely suffer very serious injuries if kept in a position like this.
When they heard these cries, Sheriff Joe's department of torturers decided to up the ante a little bit on Richard Post's time in the chair: they tightened the restraints as hard as they could, effectively breaking Richard Post's neck.
They broke a paraplegic man's neck.
Post has since lost much of the use of his arms due to the injury and had to have spinal surgery to remove a vertebrae.
All of this for possession of marijuana and basically calling someone a bad name in a public place.
Quite a few people have actually DIED while in Sheriff Joe's prisons, and attached is a video of a hate crime committed, easily, inside a supposedly "maximum security" prison of his. - 3
Arresting Illegal Immigrants... Himself.
How would you THINK that any amnesty laws would be treated by the man who once said it was an honor to be compared to the KKK?
Arizona passed a law in 2005 making it a felony to traffic illegal aliens across the border to the United States. Since it's already a federal law, most other local law enforcement agencies will just turn any illegal aliens discovered over to federal authorities.
Not Sheriff Joe's department, though. Sheriff Joe's department will not only arrest these illegal aliens, but bring them over to his jail.
Sheriff Joe told the Washington Times "My message is clear: if you come here and i catch you, you're going straight to jail... I'm not going to turn these people over to federal authorities so they can have a free ride back to Mexico. I'll give them a free ride to my jail."
After the Obama administration hit the white house, the Department of Homeland Security removed Arapaio's department's authority to make immigration arrests and ended his ability to "hunt down" possible offenders via racial/vehicle profiling.
After all of this, Arpaio currently states that he will continue to pursue illegal aliens under Arizona state law. - 4
Arrested for Clapping
Sheriff Arpaio’s deputies arrested citizens for clapping at a public meeting with the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
The citizens, who were there to speak and part of the agenda for the public meeting, were forced out of the room and were not allowed to speak about the issue at hand because they'd expressed a level of enthusiasm that Sheriff Joe and his deputies did not appreciate.
Scroll to about half way through the video to see a woman pleading to have her voice be heard only to have it silenced by the unforgiving arrests of Sheriff Joe's officers. - 5
Pink Underwear
One of Arpaio's most visible public relations actions was forcing the inmates to wear old-fashioned prison stripes and pink underwear, which the Maricopa County Sheriff's website cites as being "world famous." Arpaio subsequently started to sell customized pink boxers (with the Maricopa County Sheriff's logo and "Go Joe") as a fund-raiser for Sheriff's Posse Association.
Arpaio's success in gaining press coverage with the pink underwear resulted in introducing pink handcuffs, which were used to promote his book, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, America's Toughest Sheriff. How cute.
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Volunteer Chain Gangs at 9/02/2010 4:06 PM
Don't non criminals also work. Do we call it forced and publicize this so everyone feels sorry for us? I don't think so.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 10 Craziest Moments at 9/02/2010 3:56 PM
I wish he was a sheriff in Florida.
Volunteer Chain Gangs at 8/30/2010 8:48 AM
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Forces Woman to Give Birth on Shackles at 5/23/2010 2:46 PM
Giving birth while handcuffed to the gurney ain't like be tortured.
Forces Woman to Give Birth on Shackles at 5/24/2010 11:04 AM
Forces Woman to Give Birth on Shackles at 5/23/2010 1:54 PM
Forces Woman to Give Birth on Shackles at 5/23/2010 2:46 PM
Giving birth while handcuffed to the gurney ain't like be tortured.
Pink Underwear at 5/20/2010 4:50 PM
I'm kinda thinking here that Iamcage is perhaps a bit afraid he might be wearing the pink.
Way to go, dude. Should everyone you disagree with "die in a fire"? A bit morally twisted there, fella.
Arrested for Clapping at 5/20/2010 4:46 PM
Arresting Illegal Immigrants... Himself. at 5/20/2010 4:45 PM
Paralyzing a Paraplegic Prisoner at 5/20/2010 4:43 PM
And to Beyio, who has he murdered? If that was true, the FBI would have nailed him. Since they have NOT, then it stands to reason he hasn't murdered anyone.
Forces Woman to Give Birth on Shackles at 5/20/2010 4:39 PM
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Pink Underwear at 5/12/2010 9:16 PM
Die in a fire.
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Paralyzing a Paraplegic Prisoner at 5/12/2010 4:18 PM
Forces Woman to Give Birth on Shackles at 5/12/2010 3:44 PM
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Volunteer Chain Gangs at 5/12/2010 8:18 AM
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 10 Craziest Moments at 5/12/2010 7:59 AM
I do agree with some of his policies though. Some of his changes - chain gangs, pink underwear, and tent city - are designed to cut costs on the state government level. He requires that prisoners work for the shelter and food provided by the prison system. Tent city is also designed for minor offenses, like DUI's or minor drug charges. This keeps small-time offenders away from the major criminals pop**ating the prisons. It makes it so prison time is still available for criminals without overpop**ating the permanent prisons at a minimal cost. Also, the people in Tent City are only there for something like a month max. Not too bad, if you ask me.
Overall, Arpaio is still a bigot and still reprehensible in many of his actions, but I will still stand behind SOME of his actions. Like they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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