In mid-July, a quarterly meeting to provide updates on how the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is complying with court-enforced reforms went off the rails .

Spurred by Maricopa County Board of Supervisors chair Thomas Galvin, Republicans showed up in droves to protest the decade-long oversight of federal monitor Robert Warshaw. Some clashed with the largely Latino community members who usually attend to share their concerns about how the sheriff’s office conducts itself. Tempers flared and Warshaw held his head in frustration.

The meetings are mandated as a result of the federal civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio. In a hearing Friday, U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow revealed he’d planned to join that July shitshow but had been waved off by a colleague who’d warned him that

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