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Family Receives $6.75 Million Settlement for Terrill Thomas, Who Died in Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke's Jail
In what’s been declared the largest jail death settlement in the history of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County has paid nearly $7 million to the family of Terrill Thomas, who died of dehydration in his cell in 2016. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the settlement was initially proposed in January and that the payments—approximately $5 million…
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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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Former Sheriff David Clarke Uses Expletive in Response to Reporter Who Asked About His Security Detail
Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke is still using the title “sheriff” even though he quit his job last month. He apparently also has lost the round-the-clock security detail that was afforded to him while he was sheriff, and when a local reporter asked him about it last week, he fired back with an expletive in…
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David Clarke Came for Colin Kaepernick and Was Summarily Put in His Place; He Also Has to Rewrite His Thesis
Former Sheriff “Stuck on Stupid” David Clarke continues to make news, but not for anything good. Most recently, the former Milwaukee County sheriff and black Trump booster tried his hand at disrespecting Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback who many believe is being blackballed by the NFL and team owners for kneeling during the playing…
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Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Resigns Without Explanation
David Clarke Jr.—the black sheriff from Milwaukee who has done everything in his power, including endorsing Donald Trump, to prove that he is different from all the rest of us black people—resigned from his job without explanation on Thursday. Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson told the Associated Press that he received a letter of resignation…
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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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Sheriff ‘Black Guy for Trump’ Turns Down Job at the Department of Homeland Security
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.—you know, the black man who loves to chide black people in the name of his lord and master Donald J. Trump—won’t be taking the assistant secretary position at the Department of Homeland Security. “Late Friday, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. formally notified Secretary of Homeland Security John…
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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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Sheriff David Clarke Got Outed for Plagiarism on His Master’s Thesis, Unsure of Trump Administration Job Now
After a media outlet reported on plagiarism in his master’s degree thesis paper, Sheriff David Clarke is unsure of his standing with the Trump administration and whether or not he will actually get that job with the Department of Homeland Security that he’s been bragging about recently. On Saturday, CNN reported that there were 47…
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Words Shot the Sheriff? David Clarke Reportedly Plagiarized Parts of His Master’s Thesis
It seems as if everyone around our dear president is more sketchy and unqualified than the next. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who rode his deep-seated disdain for black people to a plum position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, reportedly lifted text without proper attribution in his 113-page master’s thesis. An investigative report…