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Sunlei

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14. I think Republicans make this kind of 'offer"as a hat tip for his brutality & murder of jail inmates
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 09:48 PM
Jun 2017

Clarke has been repeatedly accused of abusing detainees at the county jail.[41] Following the deaths of four inmates at the jail in six months, the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation of the jail.[41] Milwaukee County chief medical examiner Brian Peterson accused Clarke of verbally harassing and threatening him in an October 2016 telephone conversation after Peterson's office made the mysterious deaths of two inmates at the jail earlier that year public.[41][42] According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Clarke also attracted attention for temper-related incidents: "He once berated a 911 dispatcher for not being professional, threatened to arrest the new House of Correction chief and called a sergeant a 'terrorist' and 'cancer' in a two-hour, expletive-filled rant".[42]

Death of Terrill Thomas[edit]

The Milwaukee County Jail turned the water off to inmate Terrill Thomas' cell, resulting in his death by dehydration on April 24, 2016. According to inmates, the water was turned off for six days and the staff refused to provide water to Thomas. On September 15, 2016, the Milwaukee medical examiner ruled Thomas's death a homicide.[43] Later that day Clarke's office sent out a press release which stated it would be "withholding employee internal investigations and will not be commenting on this matter until the completion of all [sic] investigative and review processes, and any resultant civil litigation."[44][45] Asked about the lawsuit in March 2017, Clarke said that he had no comment on the lawsuit but noted Thomas' criminal background.[46]

In May 2017, after hearing six days of testimony at an inquest, a Milwaukee County jury found probable cause that seven jail employees (two supervisors, five officers) had committed a crime—specifically, abuse of a resident of a penal facility—and recommended that charges be brought.[47]

lots more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Clarke_(sheriff)#House_of_Correction_and_detainee_abuse_controversies

I'd swear the position was never officially offered to him? - oh, well, I just could not care Leghorn21 Jun 2017 #1
I'd swear the same thing. mountain grammy Jun 2017 #7
Yay!! That means we're not crazy, right? Or, if we are, we're crazy toGETHer!! - what I DO Leghorn21 Jun 2017 #11
The Handwriting is on the wall for Two-Scoops. Eyeball_Kid Jun 2017 #2
Good points, all. As a nation most of us doesn't know the difference between Putin and Poutine. erronis Jun 2017 #10
LOL, poutine !! Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #18
Can You BLAME Him? Doug the Dem Jun 2017 #3
I was supposed to be Pope before Bennie the Rat but I withdrew! gfwzig Jun 2017 #4
Was the offer fake? nwduke Jun 2017 #5
+1000 SkyDaddy7 Jun 2017 #17
If they'd offered him a job & he accepted he wouldn't "withdraw from consideration" KeepItReal Jun 2017 #6
Isn't Clark really H2O Man Jun 2017 #8
Clayton Bigsby Grassy Knoll Jun 2017 #12
KInd of hard to turn down something never offered rpannier Jun 2017 #9
Fox News Scored Big When They Found A Black Sheriff.... Grassy Knoll Jun 2017 #13
I think Republicans make this kind of 'offer"as a hat tip for his brutality & murder of jail inmates Sunlei Jun 2017 #14
On the one hand, I wish he would leave my beloved Wisconsin, yet Clarke needs to face the music riversedge Jun 2017 #20
I just turned down the job to be starting quarterback for the green bay Packers dembotoz Jun 2017 #15
When you can't even get Clarke on board you are scraping the bottom of RWA barrel. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #16
Fascist Powertripper... Blue Idaho Jun 2017 #19
"Trump & Clarke met in Wisconsin on Tuesday, according to Peterson, and they discussed other rol riversedge Jun 2017 #21
David Clarke is cut from the same rotten cloth as democrank Jun 2017 #22
This idiot was never offered a job in the first place Gothmog Jun 2017 #23
Trump is probably too liberal for him. Turbineguy Jun 2017 #24
Go back to the 1800's where you came from onit2day Jun 2017 #25
You mean the 1940's obamanut2012 Jun 2017 #28
Wanna bet he flunked his background check? farmbo Jun 2017 #26
He would have been the most dangerous appointee, even more so than DeVos obamanut2012 Jun 2017 #27
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