Posted on 01/02/2018 2:46:06 PM PST by EdnaMode
Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke was temporarily suspended from Twitter on Tuesday over tweets violating the platform’s terms of service.
According to CNN, Clarke was placed on “limited status” over three tweets threatening violence against members of the media. He is unable to post until the offending tweets were deleted.
“When LYING LIB MEDIA makes up MAKE NEWS to smear me, the ANTIDOTE is to go right at them,” Clarke wrote in one of the now-deleted tweets, “Punch them in the nose & MAKE THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD. Nothing gets a bully like LYING LIB MEDIA”S attention better than to give them a taste of their own blood #neverbackdown.” It was accompanied by a photo of Donald Trump’s face photoshopped onto the body of a wrestler kicking another wrestler labeled CNN
On Tuesday, Clarke tweeted another message saying he would not be “intimidated into silence by LYING LIB MEDIA,” saying he was targeted by “LIBERAL hyper partisan government HACKS who weaponize government authorirty to go after people whose views they don’t like.”
A conservative Trump supporter, Clarke resigned as sheriff in September to join the pro-Trump political action committee America First Action. He previously announced in May that he had accepted a position in the Department of Homeland Security, an announcement he later rescinded.
Clarke’s reps didn’t immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment
yep - my thoughts, too
Twitter is so liberal they should just call it LiberalSocialistNaziTwiter.
Gab is pretty close.
I like Sheriff Clarke, but it is hard for me to take seriously anyone who uses caps and hyperbole in such a manner.
It goes far beyond liability issues
His remark about ‘punch them in the nose and LET THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD!” is probably what did it.
Why make censorship so easy? Better to rein it in a little when making graphic remarks.
That does not sound like Sheriff Clarke.
I suspect a fake tweet.
We’ll make sure they apply the same standard to libs who threaten metaphorical political warfare.
I love it! There are other tweets like it.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
@SheriffClarke
Dec 30
Nothing like getting under the skin of lefties like I did today. I fight to win. You come at me libs you better bring a hard hat, some aspirin and your veggie wrap because it’s going to be a long day and I’m going to smack you around until you crawl back to your mom’s basement.
James O’Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
Dec 25
Woke up this Christmas morning to see Julian Assange last tweet was about an informed people being a free people. His account is now gone. Rosie still active after wishing sex act on Shapiro. This is an electronic civil war, the stakes are high. PV Infantry coming in January.
God bless this great man!
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