By Megan Cassidy | The Arizona Republic
The most withering criticism of Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday came not from the plaintiffs in the racial-profiling lawsuit against him, nor from a Department of Justice attorney, who said Arpaio’s office fostered a “culture of lawlessness.”
It was instead delivered by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow, the man who has presided over 20 days of testimony in Arpaio’s civil-contempt hearings, as well as its underlying racial-profiling suit.