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Rivulet Films Announces Production
Plans for TV Docu-Series About America’s Toughest Sheriff,
Joe Arpaio
May 26, 2020 (Gilbert, AZ)…Rivulet Films announces the
start of production with filming to begin June 2, 2020 for a new
docu-series, named (TBD), based on the life experiences of
“America’s Toughest Sheriff” Joe Arpaio who
served as the 34th Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona for 24
years, from 1993 to 2016, and kept copious notes and files across
his career.
“Love
him or hate him...Sheriff Joe has been America’s primary
figurehead in America’s war on drugs and illegal
immigration,” said Rivulet Media CEO, Aaron Klusman.
“His story is provocative and controversial while being
informative as to the real threats facing American citizens. I
joke...saying if “tiger king” and “narcos”
had a baby...Sheriffs Joe story would probably be it,”
Klusman added.
Joe
Arpaio’s law enforcement career began in 1954 with the
Washington DC Police Dept and in 1957 moved to the U.S. Bureau of
Narcotics, which became the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
DEA. He spent 26 years in the pursuit of drug criminals around the
globe, from Turkey, Lebanon, South America to Mexico. After 55
years in law enforcement, Arpaio wrapped up his DEA career as the
head of their Arizona division.
After
retiring from the DEA, Arpaio held six four-year terms as the
longest serving Sheriff in Maricopa County. Arpaio wasn’t
eloquent, he spoke in short, quotable bursts, and he pummeled
opponents with gusto, stirring up controversy. The issues that
spurred national news stories were:
“Tent City” jails - the wide usage of outdoor tent
cities to detain migrants:
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In 1993, Arpaio
vowed no troublemakers would be released on his watch because of
overcrowding.
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He procured a
consignment of Army-surplus tents, set them up, surrounded by
barbed wire, in an industrial area in southwest
Phoenix.
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Tent City jail held
twenty-five hundred inmates, and he stuck a neon
“VACANCY” sign
on a tall guard tower and was visible for miles.
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He banned
cigarettes, skin magazines, movies, coffee, hot lunches and salt
and pepper. Meals were cut to two a day.
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Inmates
forced to live in tents in blistering heat.
He made pink the new black
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Joe Arpaio made
national headlines by requiring Tent City inmates to wear pink
underwear.
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Inmates even had
pink handcuffs around their wrists.
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Local causes
benefited from this when Arpaio sold replica pink underwear and
handcuffs to the public.
He created chain gangs to send a strong message about
criminals:
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TV reporters
clamored to get footage of his inmates shuffling through the
desert.
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Inmates donned
black-and-white striped uniforms.
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He created female
chain gangs, “a first in the history of the world,” and
eventually, juvenile chain gangs.
“Tough on crime” policies targeting
immigrants:
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Sheriff Joe
appointed himself enforcer of the nation's immigration laws in
Arizona.
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He instructed his
deputies to conduct extensive raids in Latino towns and
neighborhoods and it was reported they investigated and arrested
more than thirty thousand undocumented aliens.
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In 2012, he
received a lifetime achievement award from the Constitutional
Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, an organization that
pushes the idea that sheriffs are the supreme law of the land,
above federal officers.
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He faced a Justice
Department lawsuit alleging he racially profiles Hispanic residents
of Maricopa County.
Obama’s birth certificate:
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Arpaio was asked to
investigate the authenticity of President Obama’s birth
certificate and found it to be a forgery.
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In a past
interview; when asked by CNN reporter, Chris Cuomo, if he believed
that President Obama’s birth certificate was a
phony….Arpaio replied “It is a phony
document”
About Rivulet Media
Rivulet
Film’s recent
merger with Bio-Matrix
Scientific Group, Inc. to form Rivulet Media positioning their film
productions using a proprietary financing model to deliver studio
quality star driven content more affordably than larger production
companies can with in-house production teams. Bio-Matrix Scientific
Group, Inc. is a development stage company publicly traded OTC:
BMSN.
Media contact:
Keith
Woods
KB
Woods Public Relations
Mobile:
602-475-8179
Keith@kbwoods.com
Rivulet Media contact:
info@rivuletfilms.com
and info@rivuletmedia.com
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