Sheriff Clarke added that the now-contrite statements from Obama and De Blasio, following the assassination of two police officers in New York City, are “hollow,” a “day late and a dollar short.” “I don’t accept it,” said Sheriff Clarke in a Dec. 22 interview on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C. “I think it’s politically advantageous for them to make those statements now and try to walk back what they did.” “Our law enforcement officers are not the problem in America,” said Clarke, now in his third (four-year) elected term as sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisc. “Our law enforcement officers are one of the few things left that’s right about America.” “And for these people in these high-profile positions to disparage their reputation with a broad brush like that, I found it sickening,” he said. “I found it despicable.”
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