Joe Arpaio Reportedly Is Now ‘Distressed’ by Being Called a Racist. Twitter Offers the Perfect Response.

‘Please Please Whatever You Do Don’t Suggest Arpaio Is a Racist Thug. It Hurts Him. It Really Hurts’

Joe Arpaio, some might say, has gotten away with a lot. For 23 years he was the sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County, and became famous for his horrific treatment of prisoners, and targeting of Hispanics. His infamous “tent city,” an outdoor jail for prisoners, subjected them to temperatures at times over 140 degrees. This Twitter account, active since 2009, appears to be Arpaio’s:

Countless prisoners died during his tenure, and the suicide rate was astronomical. Conditions in his jail were deemed unconstitutional. The cruelty he and his officers displayed over the decades is unconscionable. 

Sadly, he never faced criminal prosecution for all of his actions (the list is long). The Arizona Republic reports “Arpaio was convicted of disobeying a judge’s order to stop enforcing immigration, which was never a job mandated by state statutes for a county sheriff.” 

Friday night, President Trump pardoned Arpaio for that conviction, leading to massive nation-wide outrage. On Monday, Trump told reporters he made the announcement during Hurricane Harvey because he “assumed the ratings would be far higher.”

Hours later, a reporter for The Arizona Republic took to Twitter to report that Arpaio is growing “distressed” that he’s being called a “racist”:

On Twitter, Yes, You’re Racist, which worked to identify the names of white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville and expose them, had this suggestion:

Given Arpaio’s decades of racist actions, Twitter knew exactly what to do:

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