Former Sheriff David Clarke on Jacob Blake protests: “I am tired of seeing these subhumans be allowed to destroy property”
Clarke: “At some point, law enforcement is going to have to put their foot down and respond in kind to these assaults, this looting, this rioting, to quell these riots”
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David Clarke on Jacob Blake protests: "I am tired of seeing these subhumans be allowed to destroy property"
Citation From the August 24, 2020, edition of 1310 WIBA's The Vicki McKenna Show
DAVID CLARKE (FORMER MILWAUKEE COUNTY SHERIFF): Then you get to this automatic default of rioting. Now, I understand for the police in the early stages of this thing, it's chaos. It's pandemonium. I get that, but I'll tell you what: From that night forward, I am tired of seeing these subhumans be allowed to destroy property, whether it's government property -- those are publicly owned assets paid for by the taxpayers. I am tired of seeing officers injured with tepid response in reply. I am done with that. I have had it. I support law enforcement, you know that. The leadership, not so much because I think it's failing. But at some point -- at some point, law enforcement is going to have to put their foot down and respond in kind to these assaults, this looting, this rioting, to quell these riots.
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VICKI MCKENNA (HOST): If the police officers knew and maybe were even effecting an arrest on an outstanding warrant, who knows -- again, who knows what the ultimate outcome and ultimate side you are going to fall on looking at the video, a second perspective which is available, that I have seen this morning and I have a copy of, from the other side of the police car. So again, just like George Floyd -- the more we learn about George Floyd, the likelier it is this guy was on his way to death from a fentanyl overdose -- but when you just look at the video, it looks like the cop was trying to murder this man.