Posted on 08/23/2014 6:23:42 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Attorney general Eric Holder and Missouri Democratic leaders need to apologize to the law-enforcement community for impugning officers’ motives in light of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., according to one prominent county sheriff.
Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke, who gained notoriety last year for encouraging gun ownership within his Wisconsin community, said Holder, Governor Jay Nixon, and Senator Claire McCaskill made the situation in Ferguson worse with their “irresponsible, inflammatory” comments about the city’s police force and its supposed problem with race relations. Clarke argued on Fox News on Friday that the trio was “insinuating that our law-enforcement officers across the United States engage in some nefarious or systematic and cultural attempts to violate people’s civil rights.”
“I thought that was a slap in the face to every law-enforcement officer in America who puts on the badge and the uniform everyday to go out and risk their lives in service to their community,” he said.
Clarke specifically called on Holder to either further explain himself or apologize to law enforcement for “adding hot sauce to this volatile situation.”
“He doesn’t owe me an apology, but the men and women I know of do not have that kind of maliciousness in their hearts and I thought that that was a poor display in terms of leadership,”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Two members of the real Mod Squad.
I like seeing Sheriff Clarke in that Cowboy Hat, but if he thinks Eric Holder is going to apologize, and to a white man? Just don’t hold your breath, Sheriff. I’d hate for you to run out of oxygen or something.
When I see Officer Clark and Officer Davis, I don’t see black men, I see Americans, patriots who believe in what they do, not some punk ass Street Rat that got lucky and is employed by the gubmint.
Okay, guys. Remember this when martial law is declared and you’re told to start rounding up citizens.
Sheriff Clarke is a true patriot and gives the liberals nightmares with his no nonsense reality based sense of the world, as it is, not as the far left imagine it to be.
A quote from Sherif Clarke
“You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back; but are you prepared? Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there. You have a duty to protect yourself and your family. We’re partners now. Can I count on you?”
(first post so I hope that I get it right)
Eric Holder also needs to apologize to all Americans...
I see a audit in his future.
Holder suffers from Caucasian-phobia.
Eric Holder needs to resign.
If he does, I’ll skip the apology.
True, but there we'd have to live in fear Obama would appoint Al 'burn 'em down' Sharpton to the post.
Self ping
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