During his time as sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, Joe Arpaio targeted Latinos to crack down on illegal immigration, which may soon cost residents over a quarter of a billion dollars.
The long and arduous journey detailing the rise and fall of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and the Latino resistance that selflessly fought against his regime, is detailed in the new book "Driving While Brown: Sheriff Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance."
Arizona taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of million of dollars resulting from an ongoing ACLU lawsuit accusing Joe Arpaio of illegally detaining Latinos. Last Friday, an Arizona judge found Arpaio countined to systematically target the Hispanic community against his wishes.
A U.S. District Court judge has ordered federal marshals to seize documents from the offices of controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio after he failed to turn over information to a court-appointed monitor related to an ongoing racial profiling case.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is scheduled to appear in court for contempt-of-court hearings beginning in late September to review the violations that "America's Toughest Sheriff" admitted to making against a judge's orders in a 2011 racial profiling case.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the six-time elected sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has reached a partial settlement with the Department of Justice over its civil rights lawsuit against him, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Maricopa County, Arizona.
