Sheriff David Clarke: Milwaukee Had the ‘Ingredients’ for a Riot

When the social order collapses, tribal behavior takes over.

Clarke penned an editorial for The Hill Monday (Aug. 15) in which he said tribal behavior was what sparked violence between rioters and police over the weekend and likened the environment to the “jungle” in his piece.

“We can not allow for a repeat of what happened last night”, Clarke wrote in a statement. Not good enough for me. Based on video from the body camera of the officer – who is black – 23-year-old Sylville Smith ran from police after a traffic stop and was shot only after he raised his gun at the officer after being told to drop it. It’s time for them to remember their own humanity, their own dignity, and to fight for that return to the American Dream that the left would withhold from them. “They shot an armed individual this time so it doesn’t give the cop-haters the high ground on this sort of thing”. That is not what causes riots anyway.

That things have not improved and in fact worsened in the American ghetto after eight years of Barack ObamaBarack ObamaSheriff David Clarke: liberal politics and media fueled Milwaukee riots Five things that could still go wrong for Hillary Clinton Lazy media exposes its true hypocrisy in campaign coverage MORE is remarkable only to those who have not been paying attention to our nation’s cities. Milwaukee is sixth poorest city in America. They have failing public schools. You have a failing K-12 public education system. “You have dysfunctional families, you have father-absent homes, you have questionable lifestyle choices”. All the kids with no fathers around, father, absent homes. You have questionable lifestyle choices.

He said that police shootings act as “an igniter” that set off riots, but that progressive polices created the “ingredients” for unrest, including poverty, black unemployment, and single-parent households. Clarke was the only official fearless enough to point out that in the same weekend there was a victim of a police shooting, there were nine victims of gang violence in Milwaukee (and nearby Chicago)-that no one rioted for.