Repulsive Sheriff Arpaio

Saturday's four-mile march through the streets of Phoenix in protest of Maricopa County's gruesome, racial-profiling sheriff Joe Arpaio brought people from as far away as Florida. Here is what a friend who participated wrote: "A member of the press told us there were at least four to five thousand. By the time we got to the front of Arpaio's office, we took up two lanes and went as far as the eye could see."

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon had already asked for a federal investigation of the arrogant, showboat sheriff for “discriminatory harassment, improper stops, searches, and arrests” of Hispanics. Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and other members of Congress are now also asking for an investigation..

Arpaio has cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in civil lawsuits filed by employees, inmates and the families of dead inmates.

March participant Zack De La Rocha, former lead singer of the rock band Rage Against the Machine, said it well: "Arpaio has brought shame on the state of Arizona (and) he is bringing shame on the entire country."