because he was on trial
he's not on trial anymore
because he was convicted. Annoying Orange pardoned him but that doesn't make him any less of a lawbreaker
"convicted" as in they tried him on racial profiling and all they found was that he had put a race category in one of the forms to sign up for police or something
dude, as a person who has lived in arizona their entire life and kept up with arpaio's tribal saga, this literally can't be any less wrong
he was convicted under contempt of court for deliberately ignoring a federal court order and
illegally detaining people. his conviction had nothing to do with a 'race category on a form' or whatever you believe happened
conservatives are supposed to be the ones who hold big government accountable for people's rights and liberties, but here you are defending a flagrant violation of both