Amid Milwaukee Unrest, A Controversial Black Sheriff Clashes With The City's White Police Chief

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As riots raged in Milwaukee, the county sheriff took to Twitter.

"Black LIES matter," David Clarke wrote to his quarter-million followers, ridiculing the Black Lives Matter movement.

The protesters, he tweeted later, were part of a “culturally dysfunctional underclass” and were responding to “inane provocation.”

His taunts stood in sharp contrast to the message being sent out by the Milwaukee police chief. Speaking on local television, Edward Flynn laid out the facts of the shooting that had ignited the unrest, then said he was heading to a meeting with local black pastors to plead for their help.

It was "very important that those people that are in the neighborhood are constantly giving a message of peace and civility," Flynn said. "Nothing is being accomplished through acts of violence."

In racially charged Milwaukee, the two most prominent law enforcement officials — whose jurisdictions overlap — are proving that race is anything but simple. Clarke is black. Flynn is white.

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1. I heard Clarke's press conference last week and asked "Who is this agitator?"

I had no idea who he was, nor did I know his race, but I said, "This man hates black people!!" I was stunned to find out he's African American!!!! The things he said showed no understanding of the institutional racism and lack of good schools and opportunities in many minority communities.
What a terrible person he is!