Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Arizona’s infamous jail-’em’ all law enforcement anti-hero, has lost a major case for false imprisonment.  When two reporters investigated his vast privately held properties and questioned how he could afford them, the sheriff tried to get numerous officials to investigate and arrest the journalists.  After several years, he found a willing conspirator, and they had the journalists rousted from bed in the middle of the night on bogus charges.  Yesterday, those journalists were awarded $3.75 MILLION.  They plan to share the ward with civil rights groups fighting the many other spurious arrests by this disgraceful officer of the law.

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