Joe Arpaio Critics Dress Up As 'King Arpaio' And Jesters, Disrupt Meeting
PHOENIX -- The nation's self-professed "Toughest Sheriff" Joe Arpaio is pretty good at getting attention, be it through birther investigations or keeping undocumented immigrants in a tent city and forcing them to wear pink underwear.
Some of his constituents in Maricopa County, Ariz., are sick of it. And on Wednesday, they proved they're capable of creating a spectacle, too.
Anti-Arpaio protesters carried a man posing as "King Arpaio" into a Maricopa County board of supervisors meeting Wednesday morning to protest the board's failure to condemn the sheriff. The "king," a grey-haired and balding man wearing a gold crown, aviator sunglasses and a red velvet cape, was carried by a "royal posse" wearing jester's hats. He yelled that he would win four more years -- Arpaio has been in office for two decades and is 80 years old -- and that he has plenty more pink underwear to distribute.
One hundred or so other protesters, organized by progressive group Citizens for a Better Arizona and led by the group's president, Randy Parraz, yelled back that Arpaio will be ousted soon. They followed the "king" in disrupting the meeting with prayers, chanting and singing until the frustrated chairman, Republican Max Wilson, finally adjourned it and said he would meet with Parraz and a small group of others.
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