After a weekend of violent protests in Milwaukee, sparked by the fatal police shooting of an armed black man, County Sheriff David Clarke controversially blamed the unrest on the policies of the Obama administration and liberals. His comments ignited fury on social media.
After a weekend of violent protests in Milwaukee, sparked by the fatal police shooting of an armed black man, County Sheriff David Clarke controversially blamed the unrest on the policies of the Obama administration and liberals. His comments ignited fury on social media.
“That things have not improved and in fact worsened in the American ghetto after eight years of Barack Obama is remarkable only to those who have not been paying attention to our nation’s cities,” Sheriff Clarke wrote in an op-ed for The Hill on Sunday.
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In a Monday press conference updating reporters on the situation in Milwaukee, he repeated the sentiment.
“We keep focusing on the police. I’ve said publicly before stop trying to fix the police, fix the ghetto…and I’ve talked about the urban pathologies that have to be addressed to shrink the size of the underclass,” said Sheriff Clarke. “How do you do that? You shrink poverty. You fix the schools, you put people back to work, meaningful work.”
More than 100 protesters clashed with police on Saturday night in Milwaukee’s predominately black north side in response to the police shooting of an armed black man 23-year-old Sylville Smith. Four officers were injured and 17 people were arrested in the first night of protests. Rioters set fire to a bank, a gas station, a beauty supply store and an auto parts store.
Via RT