Reporter arrested at "pitchfork and torches time." Sheriff David Clarke's house Milw WI

[riversedge]

Not much information in the story. Short video at link.
Surprised to hear about this: His home is watched around the clock by a uniformed sheriff's deputy.









Reporter arrested at Sheriff David Clarke's house


http://www.wisn.com/news/reporter-arrested-at-sheriff-david-clarkes-house/42145390?src=app


UPDATED 8:28 PM CDT Oct 17, 2016



MILWAUKEE —WISN 12 News has learned a network freelance television reporter was arrested after going to the door of Sheriff David Clarke's Milwaukee home.

The 64-year-old Chicago-based reporter was arrested Sunday at Clarke's house at Clarke's request. His home is watched around the clock by a uniformed sheriff's deputy.


VIDEO: Interview request with Sheriff Clarke ends with arrest

WISN 12 News is not naming the reporter because the district attorney hasn't decided yet whether to charge him.

To get to the sheriff's front door, the journalist would have had to pass several no trespassing signs making it clear the sheriff does not welcome any uninvited guests.

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[Cakes488]

1. I can't believe this man tweeted a picture of an angry mob with pitchforks and torches...

I tweeted to him that it looks like their are getting ready for a lynching. HOW DARE HE!

He is the worst kind of officer role model I have ever seen. How typical that he is a Trump admirer. This is really becoming a subculture...emphasis on the sub part.

And maybe if he wasn't such an asshole he wouldn't need officers on guard 24/7...who's paying for that ...taxpayers?

[riversedge]

2. I imagine us WI taxpayers are paying the salary. I do not know why he has armed officers

stationed at his house.

[Cakes488]

4. I know why ...because he's a dick and people don't like him! n/t

[panader0]

3. So he got arrested but the DA hasn't decide whether to charge him?

So what did he get arrested for?

[mythology]

5. Criminal trespass according to the article

You don't need the DA to arrest if there is a crime in progress. Granted this is probably a nuisance arrest trying to show off power and won't result in a trial as the DA will likely not press charges.

I would like to see it investigated if there are enough legitimate threats that his house needs a 24/7 armed guard paid for by the taxpayers. I suspect there probably isn't.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. The driveway and walkway to a home is quasi-public. Heck, even the cops use that excuse.

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Cops will stalk people's homes, and use the fact that the driveway and access to the front door are quasi-public.

No warrants are required.


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Since this jerk is a sheriff, and knows this law, this amounts to a malicious arrest.


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[Nevernose]

6. "No trespassing" signs don't apply to knocking on the front door

Generally speaking.

[SeattleVet]

7. He trespassed to *get* to the front door. nt

[Peaches999]

8. Agreed. No trespassing signs need to be respected.

The charge seems valid

[Nevernose]

10. Again: even with a sign, that's not trespassing

Not unless he had to hop a fence or something.

This is assuming, of course, that the reporter wasn't in the backyard or something. Otherwise, it's generally accepted that walking up to knock on the front door isn't trespassing. When she wakes up, I'll ask my lawyer/spouse what the controlling case is.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Even with farms, No Trespass does not handle fence hoppers, more to limit injury lawsuits.

[mountain grammy]

9. I think he's dangerous.

People die in his jails, most recently of dehydration after water turned off to cell and no water given to the inmate. Can you even imagine?

I saw a story, maybe here, about the old Jew who encounters a Jewish Nazi and tells him, we can reminisce about this on our walk to the gas chamber.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Not sure about Wisconsin, but generally... No Trespass is more for insurance. Walkway quasi-public.