Celebrity Justice
Sheriff to Shaq: Gimme That Badge Back!

Posted Jun 24th 2008 4:45PM by TMZ Staff

The Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona thinks Shaq-Fu better shut up! And now he's pulled the NBA baller's special deputy's badge because of his rapping rant against Kobe Bryant.

Last January, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio made the Phoenix Suns star a special deputy, and then promoted him to a ceremonious colonel earlier this month. "I want his two badges back," Arpaio told the AP, "Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they're fired. I don't condone this type of racial conduct."

Arpaio, known as "America's Toughest Sheriff," is best known for forcing inmates to wear pink undies and work on a chain gang.

O'Neal also served as a reserve officer with Miami Beach PD while playing for the Miami Heat.

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Tags: basketball, deputy, maricopa county, MaricopaCounty, NBA, Phoenix Suns, PhoenixSuns, shaq, Shaquille Oneal, ShaquilleOneal, sheriff joe arpaio, SheriffJoeArpaio

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1. To "ear" pink undies..........TMZ, please hire a copy editor or someone over the age of 12!

Posted at 4:56PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Dallas

2. HE GOT WHAT HE DESERVED! DOUCHE!

Posted at 4:57PM on Jun 24th 2008 by bubblegurl

3. GIVE IT UP SHAQ!! LAKERS FO LIFE BABY!!

Posted at 4:58PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Killa Cali

4. AS A RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT PESON, I AM GLAD TO SEE THE SHERIFF TAKE A STAND AND REQUES SHAQ TO TURN IN THOISE BADGES HE DOES NOT DESERVE. HE DISRESPECTED ANOTHER HUMAN BEING IN PUBLIC, AND ACTED AS AN ADOLESCENT. WHAT A SHAME FOR SOMEONE WHO TAKES A LOT OF MONEY FROM PEOPLE WHO ATTEND HIS GAMES AND PAY HIS SALARY

Posted at 5:02PM on Jun 24th 2008 by GUILLERMO

5. Shaq was right! The Lakers just can't win without da big daddy!!!

Posted at 5:05PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Kobe

6. WTF is that sheriff talking about "I don't condone this type of racial conduct." Number one, they are both of the same race, and number two, HE DIDN'T even say anything racial!!!!!!!!!! So what... so he said that Kobe can't hang w/out him (or something like that) and asks how his a$$ tastes. BIG FRIGGIN DEAL. They are rivals... that's what rivals do, they taunt each other! I don't understand why some people have to bring race into every single issue. (I'm not biased here... I don't even love basketball... I'm not defending either parties (Kobe or Shaq) I'm merely stating that that ignorant sheriff is trying to spout "racial conduct" when he's the only dip $h** that brought race into it!)

Posted at 5:06PM on Jun 24th 2008 by WTF???

7. WTF? How is this racial conduct exactly?

Posted at 5:06PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Markus

8. me to the sheriff BRING BACK JAILCAM

Posted at 5:10PM on Jun 24th 2008 by gorefest

9. Shaq will become a great sheriff when his basketball career is over, I would LOVE to see him become Orange County Sherrif in Orlando.

Posted at 5:11PM on Jun 24th 2008 by HairyYambag

10. I LOVE Sheriff Joe! HE Rocks!!!!! the prisoners complained about no cable TV so they now have cable TV - Disney and the weather chanel so they will know how hot it is going to be while they are working! He provides them with 3 meals a day - granted it is bologna sandwhiches for each meal, but hey - some people don't have any food at all to eat... his response, if they prisoners don't like it - THEN DON'T COME BACK....You gotta love that response. and it was Shaq's behavior in general that got him in deep doo doo with Sheriff Joe.
He does not tolerate any of that crap.

Posted at 5:16PM on Jun 24th 2008 by F this

11. JUST ANUTHA ONE OF SHERIFF B!TCH AZZ ARPAIO'S PUBLICITY STUNTZ! HE LUVZ DA ATTENTION AND DA MEDIA LUVS TO GIVE IT TO HIM! HE'S A FREAKIN RACIST HIS DAAAAM SELF!

Posted at 5:17PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Ms. Krazy

12. ARPAIO CAN DO NO WRONG IN MY BOOK ........... HE ROCKS WHEN IT COMES TO TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS WITH INMATES !!!!

Posted at 5:19PM on Jun 24th 2008 by THEMOMMA

13. "it's like a whiteboy being more NI**ER than me" that's a little racial

Posted at 5:21PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Dave

14. Is this the same Sheriff that spoke out when Paris went to jail? If so he did an interview and he sat in a chair and surrounded him self with all the young female inmates looking like he thought he was Hugh Heeifner. If it is in factt him I don't think he is someone that should be talking about others and what is or isn't appropriate.

Posted at 5:25PM on Jun 24th 2008 by mg

15. Kobe deserves alot worse. If you F#*kup and get caught you don't pull someone else down with you because they may have gotten away with it, TAKE IT LIKE A MAN, whatever the punishment. (Don't turn into a BEEEYACHHH. Shaq did go abit far but anger has away of offsetting rational thinking sometimes. But I had a good laugh!!!!!!

Posted at 5:31PM on Jun 24th 2008 by gng1959

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