Posted on 01/25/2017 8:27:10 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
When Dan Black filed a formal harassment complaint against Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. last week over an incident on a Milwaukee flight, it wasn't clear what would happen with Black's filing.
Now we know.
Melissa Baldauff, a spokeswoman for Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, confirmed that his office referred Black's complaint to the county Audit Services Division, which has now launched an investigation into the matter.
"And we advised people who asked to refer their complaints to the (county) Ethics Board," Baldauff added. The head of the Ethics Board declined to say whether her office has received any Clarke-related complaints.
In recent days, Matthew Hart, a forensic auditor with the county Audit Services Division, interviewed Black, according to Black's attorney, William Sulton of the law firm Peterson, Johnson & Murray. Sulton said he could not divulge any details from the interview.
"I will confirm that Mr. Hart interviewed Mr. Black," Sulton wrote via email. "I will not say anything beyond that at this time."
Auditors have also been at the Mitchell International Airport conducting interviews as part of the probe.
Clarke did not respond to requests for comment.
Black, a 24-year-old Riverwest resident, alleged in his complaint that he was harassed by Clarke on Jan. 15. Black claimed he was confronted, interviewed and then escorted out of Mitchell International Airport by a group of deputies after a brief exchange with Clarke on a flight from Dallas on Sunday.
In the one-page complaint, Black says he saw Clarke — decked out in a Dallas Cowboys baseball hat and shirt — on the American Airlines flight on Jan. 15 but wasn't sure it was the sheriff because he wasn't wearing his signature Stetson. The Cowboys were playing the Green Bay Packers later in the day.
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When he got off the plane, Black said, he was met by a group of six uniformed deputies and two dogs, all of whom were accompanied by the sheriff. Black said he was then escorted to the waiting area and questioned by two deputies for 15 minutes and escorted from the airport.
Milwaukeestan Democrats out to get Sheriff Clarke.
They should have beaten him like a baby seal (not that I’m FOR baby seals being beaten)
I knew it was inevitable.
I’m pretty sure there’s a whole other side to this story.
Charter member of Baby Seal Cub Clubbing Club!
He shook his head after ascertaining that the man was Sheriff Clarke. And they questioned him for 15 minutes when they arrived in Milwaukee. If the Sheriff felt like this was a threat, does this guy have a case? 15 minutes doesn’t seem long enough to constitute harassment, does it?
Clarke made a mistake not taking a job in the Trump admin. He would be protected there. It is not too late Sheriff Clarke!
Poor wittle snowflake..............gots his wittle feelings hurt..............
“I’m pretty sure there’s a whole other side to this story.”
Don’t expect to read it in this rotten commie rag.
Sheriff David Clarke has done the unforgivable. He has come out for the support of law and order as defined under the Second Amendment, and he is an American of African descent. These traits are mutual exclusives in the eyes of the hard-core liberals, and this apostasy must be punished.
Without Sheriff Clarke and his dedicated department, Milwaukee would have descended into the same cesspool that has engulfed Chicago.
If anyone can take care of himself, it’s Sheriff Clarke.
Obvious racism against Clarke in Wisconsin.
Routine Dem perversion of justice to destroy opponents. Tom Delay, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Milwaukee family raided. Demons own injustice
I have no doubt this clown is leaving out a HUGE part of the story.
That is his story, slanted to make him look innocent. Don’t believe it for one minute.
Sherriff Clarke is not stupid. Looking forward to hearing his side of the story.
For all we know, this may not be political. It’seems possible the reason the passenger shook his head is because the Milwaukee County sheriff was decked out in Cowboys gear on a day that they were playing the Packers.
And so it starts. Sheriff Clarke is a rising star in the Republican Party and they can have NONE of that. He’ll outsmart them.
Did the Sheriff detect the smell of marijuana or see indications of other drug possession?
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