Idiots tried to mess with Sheriff Clarke
Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 4 months ago to News
These morons didn't know that the interstate highways are the responsibility of the MKE county sheriff - David Clarke - and not the Milwaukee police. He gave them no quarter and arrested 70+.
Look for riots in Milwaukee in the coming days as the DA has finally (8 mo's later) come to the conclusion that the police officer did not commit a crime in shooting Dontre. It is sad that this happened, but not a crime.
Look for riots in Milwaukee in the coming days as the DA has finally (8 mo's later) come to the conclusion that the police officer did not commit a crime in shooting Dontre. It is sad that this happened, but not a crime.
In the south
(I'm not even sure you could HAVE someone who was socially conservative, yet fiscally liberal - those values just don't jive at all...)
Liberals embrace the first and second and think "negotiation" is the only acceptable tactic in the third.
Libertarians eschew the first, embrace the second, and view non-involvement as the primary tactic in the third.
Conservatives eschew both the first and second, and view foreign policy as "we won't commit the first offense, but we also won't let you commit the second."
Then, there are us who consider ourselves Constitutional Libertarians. The constitution is first, and what it specifies is what government is limited in doing, and everything else should be left to free people to do as they will, so long as they don't violate the liberty of others. For us, for example, the idea of gay marriage is a non-sequitur, since the constitution does not specify marriage as a governmental role. Thus there is no role that gov't has in marriage - at most, it should be a religious matter. If a couple (of whatever sex and number) wanted to create a legal relationship, that should be handled by contract law.
You want to confuse Dem with Liberal/Progressive. That's the case with probably 99.5% of all D's, but not all. And Sheriff Clarke is a shining counter-example.
I've voted for such Dems in the past. Had a county DA down in Burlington IA who ran as a Dem, had to in that county. Wasn't as conservative as Clarke, but was certainly no liberal/progressive.
I'm not a reactionary voter. I look at the actual philosophy/policy advocated by the candidate and vote based on that, not some label. I wish more voters did the same. If they did, I think we would have gotten rid of a good portion of the Dems already.
Will be in Manitowoc in a few days. Port Washington? I live in MPLS
So police was "unfair" because they did their job before the offenders could run away... funny.
Thanks, Robbie!!! -- j
Crowding onto the freeway was not within the bounds of 'peaceful protest'. They were arrested. So far, everything that happens is OK.
Insofar as Hamilton himself was concerned, he was said to be known to be mentally disturbed. Something went wrong here. Should not the cop have had a buddy working with him? Hamilton grabbed the cop's baton and started beating him with it - that is a significant assault. If that had not happened, this would have ended differently - and better for all concerned. So the 'room for improvement' I see is that this situation should have been handled better by the pro's - the police.
Jan
What isn't made known is that the officer was subsequently fired from the police force, not for the shooting but for conducting the pat down in the first place. That is questionable and is likely to be overturned by the police commission.
Not only am I getting disgusted by this protesting fad, I'm wondering if it is actually encouraging some black felons to resist arrest.
Hey, mister nobody for a loser, want to be famous?
Hit a policeman with his own stick.
See what happens next.
Did I read 14 rounds of .40? The guy must've been on PCP, or the officer felt like making a point.
I drive that stretch too, ~1/month going to our office on 30th street. Near the old Eaton HQ. Lovely area. I've been solicited just twice!
After all the construction from the airport through Milwaukee, why, why is morning traffic sooooo bad?!?
The Dontre Hamilton shooting went down like this. Twice earlier in the day he had been checked by other police officers and told to move on. Finally, the last officer to check him attempted to do a pat down, had his baton stolen from him, and Dontre started to beat him with it. The officer, fearing bodily harm/death, emptied his weapon at the threat. The DA played a tape of how long it takes to do so, and it was just over 2.6 seconds.