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'America Supports Sheriff Clarke' Billboard Is the Horrifying Us Follow-Up Nobody Asked For
With his directorial debut Get Out and its record-breaking successor Us, Jordan Peele has reinvigorated a horror genre that was short on ingenuity and diverse representation. But on the south side of Milwaukee, another low-budget debut threatens to dethrone the Academy-Award winning filmmaker. “What the—?” an unnamed onlooker mutters in disbelief. “Why?” WISN 12 reports…
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Milwaukee Jail Staffers Facing Charges in Death of Inmate Who Died of Dehydration
It’s been almost two years since Terrill Thomas died of dehydration while in custody at the Milwaukee County jail, and almost a year since jurors recommended that staffers at the facility be held liable in his death. On Monday, prosecutors finally announced that three jail staffers will be facing criminal charges in the death. According…
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Estate of Inmate Who Died of Dehydration in Milwaukee Jail Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against County, Sheriff David Clarke
The family of Terrill Thomas, an inmate who died of dehydration while in custody at the Milwaukee County Jail in 2016, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit naming the county, Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. and more than 20 others as defendants in the case. As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes, the lawsuit comes…
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Jury Awards $6,700,000 to Inmate Raped Repeatedly by Guard in Sheriff David Clarke’s Jail
A woman who was raped repeatedly by a guard while she was being held in the Milwaukee County Jail four years ago was awarded $6.7 million by a jury that determined that the guard in question, Xavier Thicklen, was acting under the scope of his employment when the assaults happened, thereby making the county of…
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Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Officially Hops Into Basket of Deplorables
The “Blue Lives Matter” advocate who called Black Lives Matter a hate group and oversees a correctional facility where both inmates and babies have died under his watch—all while perpetrating the grossest, must disgusting offense a black man can ever commit: wearing a cowboy hat—announced Wednesday that he is taking his talents to the Trump…
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Milwaukee Inquest Jury Recommends Charges Against 7 Jail Employees in Inmate’s Dehydration Death
The inquest jury investigating the dehydration death of inmate Terrill Thomas at the Milwaukee County Jail last year recommended Monday that charges be brought against all seven jail employees involved. District Attorney John Chisholm asked the jury Monday afternoon whether there was probable cause that seven sheriff’s office employees had committed a felony offense through…
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Still No Criminal Charges Filed Nearly a Year After Inmate Dies in Sheriff David Clarke’s Jail
Nearly a year after 38-year-old Terrill Thomas spent his last living days begging for water in solitary confinement at the Milwaukee County Jail before being found dead in his cell, no criminal charges have been filed in his death. The medical examiner classified Thomas’ death as a homicide and ruled the cause of death “profound…