BREAKING: Joe Arpaio of Arizona convicted of crime for refusing to stop targeting immigrants

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

and the good news keeps coming......

[spanone]

1. Karma.

[Maraya1969]

47. It's better than that. He's convicted of contempt. Up to 6 months in jail

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/us/sheriff-joe-arpaio-convicted-arizona.html

(I just think this is worse or maybe I didn't understand the wording of the OP. I just wanted to stick this up here in case)

Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio committed a crime by defying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants, a judge ruled on Monday, in the latest rebuke for a once-popular politician who was voted out of office last year.

United States District Judge Susan R. Bolton found Mr. Arpaio, 85, guilty of criminal contempt of court, a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. Mr. Arpaio’s lawyers said he would appeal.

The conviction comes as sheriffs are under pressure to play a major role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The president has threatened to withhold federal funds from local governments that do not cooperate by holding jail inmates for deportation, and immigrant advocates have pushed back with lawsuits charging that such detentions violate constitutional rights.

[onetexan]

57. oh yea, what goes around comes around

bad karma always comes back to you like a boomerang. Good riddance. I'm sure the inmates, many of whom he probably locked up, will have a field day with him.

[panader0]

2. Finally!

Too bad the tent city is gone. He would look good in pink with green bologna.
I hope he has to do at least a little time behind bars.

[MyOwnPeace]

44. Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The picture of him in "the pinks" would have been worthy of a front page cover of SO many magazines and papers!

[underpants]

3. F'ing love it. Now Joe finds out who his friends are

Will someone pony up some money to take this up the court chain?

[malaise]

4. Great news

Rec

[njhoneybadger]

5. Lock em up with pink depends

[madokie]

41. I say put him

naked in a rubber room with a drain and just hose him off when he shits down both legs

no sympathy for the bastard from me

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Please send him to jail. Karma demands it. nt

[sunonmars]

7. Thats 2 today..can we get a trifecta......lay your bets now

[Astroman]

8. oh be still my flutterin' heart

[wryter2000]

31. Welcome to DU

Great day to be posting here.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Well, I'm sure he can count on reasonable, humane treatment during his incarceration

like he won't be stuck in a pair of pink underwear and left outside in a cage in 110 degree heat, or anything.

Right?

[Va Lefty]

10. Want to see him in one of those pink jumpsuits he made inmates wear!!

[superpatriotman]

11. There's a vacancy or two in dumbshit's administration

I'm sure he will land softly and fail upwards.

[Hekate]

15. You want him "raped in jail", Le Gaucher?

Probably should modify that statement.

[HAB911]

13. He'll be cute in his pink jumpsuit

I really hope he spends time in his own jail

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Fuck him forever, the sadistic motherfucker

[dalton99a]

16. Put him in general population

[Adrahil]

17. Pink underwear and a tent in the Arizona sun. NT

[Plucketeer]

35. Don't forget the Baloney sandwiches!

[IronLionZion]

18. When they arrest him, they should treat him the same way

he has treated countless suspects he's arrested. So as rough as possible. And toss him in general population with the prisoners he has arrested. They can really bond together. Maybe he can stay out in tent city, in August. And wear the pink uniform.

What an asshole

[George II]

20. Maybe they should listen to what trump said last week when the put him in.....

....the "paddy wagon" (obsolete term considered anti-Irish), don't protect his head.

[IronLionZion]

22. Don't be too nice with this suspect

He looks like he needs to be treated like a criminal.

[Doc Coco]

56. I daresay a few hours of hard labor in a chain gang

in the hot desert might just .....

[AgadorSparticus]

19. WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

[SCantiGOP]

21. I'm willing to pay out of my pocket

To fly to Arizona and transport him to his tent in the desert where he can serve his sentence.

[47of74]

23. Hope they have a few pairs of these ready for that old Nazi

[JoeOtterbein]

27. Haha! Good one!

[Crowman2009]

24. To quote George Lopez...

It's around the 1:06 mark:

?t=1m6s

[L. Coyote]

25. What about all his other crimes?

[Gothmog]

26. Make this asshole serve in one of his tent jail cities

[Downtown Hound]

28. No one is above the law

Hmmm...where have I heard rhetoric like that before? Oh yeah, from you Joe. Enjoy what you've reaped, you piece of shit.

[Bradshaw3]

29. Justice overdue

Hopefully he'll get some jail time.

[niyad]

62. welcome to du. I doubt he will see a day in jail. bet he "croaks" before then, just like ken lay.

[wryter2000]

30. I hope he serves a long time in one of his jails in the desert

in a tent in 110 degree heat.

[itsrobert]

32. Add to the list of Trump pardons.

?

[Plucketeer]

36. THAT'S what I was thinking!

Pardon him and get him in the lineup of White House dispensibles. "Arpio! You're up next. Stand here please ->

[UTUSN]

33. Yippie!1 But the DRUMPF pardon machine is getting warmed up!1

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

38. So frustrating to think the Crook in Chief is allowed to pardon

his fellow criminals. There were always failures of the justice system, but any pardons Trump gives will be flagrant reminders of who is and isn't held accountable in the USA.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

50. Shoot. This was a federal trial?

I suppose if it was a state conviction the Gov there would pardon him.

[UTUSN]

54. Look, I'm not a lawyer, am just reacting to whatever happy news I can get

[StarryNite]

34. Excellent!!!

[Amimnoch]

37. Yank his citizenship, and deport him.

Based on the Republican love of retributive justice and "punishment fitting the crime", let's just pull his citizenship, and deport him from the country.

(disclaimer: of course I say this in jest, and know there is no legal course to go that route)

[rock]

39. R-Pie-Whole

[niyad]

63. LIKE THAT!!!

[rock]

64. It's what I thought people were saying

I'm a little hard of hearing.

[niyad]

65. no, I think you heard it perfectly.

[Iggo]

40. Aw, that's too bad.

And just yesterday I got an email from "Mrs Joe Arpaio" asking for donations to pay his legal bills.

"Mrs Joe Arpaio" assured me that "even $2500.00" (to something called a "political action committee&quot would go a long way.

[MyOwnPeace]

45. Respond......

Ask her which tent city jail to send a check to!

[Iggo]

46. That's funny. I'll give it a shot.

[kairos12]

42. Look for a Drumpt pardon before POS Arpaio is fitted for pink underwear.

[Brother Buzz]

49. I really don't think Drumpt has enough political capital to take that ding right now

But then again, anything's possible with Commander Cuckoo-Bananas in charge

[Bengus81]

43. He's 85...so what, LOCK HIS ASS UP anyway!!! n/t

[Bladewire]

48. Do you think Trump will pardon Joe Arpaio?

I think Trump will pardon him. What do you think?

[maxrandb]

51. I want to see this prick

in a pink prison jumpsuit in an non-air conditioned tent in the 120 degree AZ heat!!!!

[lpbk2713]

52. Give him pink overalls and make him eat green baloney.

See how long he can handle it.

[Warren DeMontague]

53. STOP MOLLYCODDLING THESE CRIMINALS, Y'ALL

Rotten Bologna sandwiches with sawdust and glass shavings, in 120 degree heat, isn't it?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/inmates-left-to-rot-in-120-degree-heat

[raven mad]

55. What goes around...............

[burrowowl]

58. About time!

[Sunlei]

59. 85 yrs old and destroyed thousands of lives, Republicans hero.

[lpbk2713]

60. Show no mercy.

He had none. Put him in a tent at over 100° temps and make him eat green baloney.

Sounds fair to me.

[Sunlei]

61. He'll never see the inside of a Federal prison.