Clarke, who just defeated deep-pocketed opposition in the Democratic Primary this last election, is speaking out on behalf of besieged police officers everywhere. Listen to the interview here.
“I’m back here fighting the good fight, but not just back here in Milwaukee,” Clarke told Harris. “Right now, it’s a fight for the honor and the integrity and the sacrifice of our nation’s law-enforcement officers, who are under attack. As you know, they been branded unfairly, unjustly and not just by the cop haters.”
Clarke criticized the “repulsive statements about America’s police officers” made by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and New York’s Mayor DeBlasio. “I’ve been doing this for 37 years. Wearing a badge, serving my community and I admit were not perfect. I know that but, what I try to do is push my officers toward – and every other officer in America – towards excellence. We are in search of that and I think we’re giving that to our communities.”
Clarke specifically pointed to the comments of President Barack Obama that “police officers have a fear of people who do not look like them and he said that we were badly trained. I found that repugnant from anybody, much less the President of United States. Eric Holder has accused police officers of being racist and engaging in nefarious racial profiling – I sat back and I listened and I was just appalled that these individuals were creating a pathway for this cop hating to go on.”
“You know the anarchist – they have no use for law-enforcement anyway and they’re going to use to destabilize Government institutions so they can implement their socialist agenda, So they create chaos and what they did was they exploited these tragic situations – these isolated tragic situations like Ferguson, Missouri, like in New York, and here in Milwaukee,” said Clarke.
“They mask themselves behind the First Amendment, masks themselves behind the slogans like #blacklivesmatter,” said Clarke. “They don’t give a damn about black people. Nowhere in the world that operates under socialist form of government do black people thrive.” Clarke argued that only “this constitutional republic gives everybody, but specifically black people the best chance to reach their God-given potential.”
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Clarke that that the current narrative “pains” so he decided to go on the offensive and to speak out.
Clarke believes that somebody has to give the police officers a public voice and he is willing to do it. “I’m willing to fight that fight, on behalf of the men and women who go out every day and put their best foot forward because they’re on the front lines.” He stated that they officers couldn’t defend themselves against the attacks by the president, DeBlasio, and Holder. “They don’t have a voice. They couldn’t defend themselves against the DeBlasio, the president, and Eric Holder calling them racist.”
Clarke called the reactions from leadership and the protestors a very dangerous “witch hunt.” Clarke claimed that “if somebody doesn’t start to stand up and doesn’t start to push back against this, our communities especially the crime ridden ones, and black people will be the ones who suffer the most.”
Clark was emphatic that he does not blame the president or Holder for the deaths of the police, but stated that the deaths are providing a diversion. Clarke stated that liberals want to create a diversion from their “failed liberal government policies that have given rise to chronic poverty… We have an emerging permanent underclass in the United States of America right now. So in order to get people’s attention off of what we should really be talking about – and it’s that not cops…”
Just this week a Sharpton-trained activist and vocal critic of police Jarret Maupin, agreed to go through a use force training session with Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
FOX 10’s Troy Hayden also went through the training.
Maupin and Hayden experienced the split-second decisions that police have to make when encountering a suspect. Maupin and Hayden were given three scenarios in which they would have to decide whether to shoot.
After Maupin felt compelled to shoot the suspects in two of the three scenarios he said, “It’s tough to make that call.”
“My attitude is has changed,” Maupin said. “People need to comply with the with the officers’ orders for their own sake.”