Sheriff Clarke Charges President Obama with Starting ‘War on Police’ After Texas Cop’s ‘Execution’

[Bob Pelini_]

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/08/407...utm_term=conservativedaily&utm_campaign=Crime

Sheriff David Clarke is not one to mince words, and now he’s blaming a lack of presidential leadership for creating an atmosphere where protesters can openly call for the murder of police officers without comment from the White House.

On Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show on Fox News, the sheriff directly charged the president for an “open season” on police officers. Clarke’s comments follow upon the “execution-style” murder of Deputy Dan Goforth at a Chevron gas station in Texas.

Sheriff Clarke made it clear he was “too pissed off” to sugarcoat what he thought of the situation, saying he was not going to “be diplomatic about what’s going on” and he’s “not going to stick his head in the sand about it.”

Clarke charged the White House for creating an environment for over-the-top rhetoric and violence against police officers:

“I said last December that war had been declared against the American police officer, led by some high-profile people. One of them coming out of the White House, another one coming out of the U.S. Department of Justice. And it’s open season right now, no doubt about it.”

Later in the interview, the sheriff pointed his finger at the president himself.

Clark commented after a question on the lack of leadership facing the issue of attacks on police:

“That’s why I said the President of the United States started this ‘war on police.'”

Others have raised questions about the president seizing on opportunities to politicize acts of violence against black Americans, while remaining silent on high-profile cases when police officers or non-minority individuals are murdered.

 

[The_Joker13]

What a dumbass.

 

[Bob Pelini_]

What a dumbass.

Actually everything he said is the truth.

 

[SIXERS24]

The Liberals propoganda war against law enforcement has made policer officers jobs almost impossible in some parts of the country!

Obama
Rev AL
The Democratic Black Caucus
MSNBC

All these people and groups are to blame!

 

[The_Joker13]

Actually everything he said is the truth.

Lol, ok. Not gonna bother troll.

 

[Bob Pelini_]

Lol, ok. Not gonna bother troll.

Translation = I can't win this argument.

I will let you up off the mat now.

 

[who r u]

Translation = I can't win this argument.

I will let you up off the mat now.

 

[Bob Pelini_]

Clarke charged the White House for creating an environment for over-the-top rhetoric and violence against police officers:

“I said last December that war had been declared against the American police officer, led by some high-profile people. One of them coming out of the White House, another one coming out of the U.S. Department of Justice. And it’s open season right now, no doubt about it.”

Later in the interview, the sheriff pointed his finger at the president himself.

Clark commented after a question on the lack of leadership facing the issue of attacks on police:

“That’s why I said the President of the United States started this ‘war on police.'”

 

[22*43*51]

There have been some legitimate tragedies, but the national media could help the cause by beginning to omit Mike Brown as one of the victims.

That "hand's up don't shoot" ish didn't happen.

But, everyone would prefer to continue to patronize the black community instead.

 

[who r u]

Clarke charged the White House for creating an environment for over-the-top rhetoric and violence against police officers:

“I said last December that war had been declared against the American police officer, led by some high-profile people. One of them coming out of the White House, another one coming out of the U.S. Department of Justice. And it’s open season right now, no doubt about it.”

Later in the interview, the sheriff pointed his finger at the president himself.

Clark commented after a question on the lack of leadership facing the issue of attacks on police:

“That’s why I said the President of the United States started this ‘war on police.'”

what was your point of reposting this segment of your original post? was it just to double down on its original stupidity? i have little to no respect for someone that resorts to the use of "war on" to try to rally support for their position. this and the use of "gate" at the end of any random scandal are two things that shows, to me, that the person using it is of low intelligence.

 

[lucas80]

Sigh. I see Arb is growing bolder. He was timid at first, but the Troll is strong in this one.

 

[Bob Pelini_]

what was your point of reposting this segment of your original post? was it just to double down on its original stupidity? i have little to no respect for someone that resorts to the use of "war on" to try to rally support for their position. this and the use of "gate" at the end of any random scandal are two things that shows, to me, that the person using it is of low intelligence.

Sheriff Clarke is ten times more intelligent than you that is a fact that isn't in doubt.

If you don't think the rhetoric coming from the Oval Office has done anything but provoke these type of situations then you are sorely lacking any intelligence at all.

 

[who r u]

Sheriff Clarke is ten times more intelligent than you that is a fact that isn't in doubt.

If you don't think the rhetoric coming from the Oval Office has done anything but provoke these type of situations then you are sorely lacking any intelligence at all.

then i guess that makes me and you two peas in a pod, both complete idiots.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

So, to summarize:

When someone kills an ordinary citizen with a gun, it's the shooter's fault.

When someone kills a law enforcement officer with a gun, it's President Obama's fault.

 

[Bob Pelini_]

Others have raised questions about the president seizing on opportunities to politicize acts of violence against black Americans, while remaining silent on high-profile cases when police officers or non-minority individuals are murdered.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Others have raised questions about the president seizing on opportunities to politicize acts of violence against black Americans, while remaining silent on high-profile cases when police officers or non-minority individuals are murdered.

Arb - That's a different topic than in your OP.

And when your source of proof is an article written by a complete dumbass who has been arrested for domestic violence and otherwise carrying himself like a douche since the TM shooting, you may want to downshift back into spamming the board with click bait on the best ice cream parlors in America.

 

[Bob Pelini_]

Sheriff David Clarke is not one to mince words, and now he’s blaming a lack of presidential leadership for creating an atmosphere where protesters can openly call for the murder of police officers without comment from the White House.

 

[waterboy4582]

Sheriff David Clarke is not one to mince words, and now he’s blaming a lack of presidential leadership for creating an atmosphere where protesters can openly call for the murder of police officers without comment from the White House.

Don't worry it is coming and every redneck across this country will decide the outcome.

 

[WORTHYWISH]

http://www.theamericanconservative....police-brutality-is-systematic-not-anecdotal/

"A Department of Justice study revealed that a whopping 84 percent of police officers report that they’ve seen colleagues use excessive force on civilians, and 61 percent admit they don’t always report “even serious criminal violations that involve abuse of authority by fellow officers.”

 

[Bob Pelini_]

http://www.theamericanconservative....police-brutality-is-systematic-not-anecdotal/

"A Department of Justice study revealed that a whopping 84 percent of police officers report that they’ve seen colleagues use excessive force on civilians, and 61 percent admit they don’t always report “even serious criminal violations that involve abuse of authority by fellow officers.”

So that entitles some thug to back shoot a deputy in the back and then once down empty his gun in the deputy's head? Tell me you don't agree with that do you?

 

[Torg]

So that entitles some thug to back shoot a deputy in the back and then once down empty his gun in the deputy's head? Tell me you don't agree with that do you?

Only an idiot would come to that conclusion.....

 

[ottumwan in tx]

they are trying to foment a race war for some reason under Obama. I really do not know the exact reason but it seems to be to hide the coming collapse of the economy

 

[Bob Pelini_]

they are trying to foment a race war for some reason under Obama. I really do not know the exact reason but it seems to be to hide the coming collapse of the economy

Most have missed the warning signs but they are out there in plain sight. Black leaders are calling for the killing of whites and police. The killings have already begun.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

Most have missed the warning signs but they are out there in plain sight. Black leaders are calling for the killing of whites and police. The killings have already begun.

well then if they really bait white people, sooner or later somebody is going to shoot back. like in the movie, "V is for vendetta". put a little girl out there as bait and somebody will shoot, put a black, a white, a human out there, a child, a woman, a kid, torture or shoot said human, foment riots, and thus it has begun. people naturally fight back. the thing is: prior to Obama, under Clinton and bush and daddy bush and Reagan, we had worked for about 30-50 years at straightening this out and we did a pretty good job. just like health insurance 50 years of building it: Obama tore it down. race: tore it down. this is the most destructive prez ever, and now he's telling iran to nuke us.

 

[HawkOptimist]

I feel bad for police officers today. I really do. A white officer gets shot and killed execution style by a black man as the officer's pumping gas? Meh. It's news for a day or two, with a lot of networks (looking at you, CNN) doing everything they can to hide the shooter's race. Then it disappears. But a white officer kills a black criminal who's resisting arrest and putting the officer's life and others in danger? Oh h--- no! We get headlines like 'White Officer Shoots and Kills Black Man,' followed by stories for weeks about how grandma says he's a great guy, or aunt says he was always nice to people, or great aunt says he was turning his life around and getting ready to start college (notice how a strong male influence, like a dad, is never mentioned). For days upon days whites are made to feel guilty for being white. Businesses are destroyed. The 'Black Lives Matter' rhetoric is shoved down our throats.

Tired of it. To police officers... Keep on keeping on. If no one else, I appreciate all you do to keep us law abiding citizens safe.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

see, if you are Obama and you get the entire nation to hate cops and be against cops.... then you get the nation to beg King Obama for an answer, beg him to fix it.... then you install your own brown shirts and tell America you are the hero

 

[clickhere 01]

http://www.theamericanconservative....police-brutality-is-systematic-not-anecdotal/

"A Department of Justice study revealed that a whopping 84 percent of police officers report that they’ve seen colleagues use excessive force on civilians, and 61 percent admit they don’t always report “even serious criminal violations that involve abuse of authority by fellow officers.”

That study you linked is 15 years old. Have anything from this decade?

 

[gonegolfing]

What a dumbass.

No doubt. It shows you how far the intelligence of this country has fallen that he could get elected twice.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

No doubt. It shows you how far the intelligence of this country has fallen that he could get elected twice.

Yeah, but a few things.....back in the day (2008 and 2012), there weren't any better candidates that wouldn't have sucked at their job either. Now we can semantically debate that they wouldn't have sucked as bad as Obama, but the fact is sucking in general at being the President of the United States...............a good thing, it is not.

The other half of this is the fact that there aren't any solid candidates to replace Obama once he's out of office in 2016. Oh sure, you could argue that anyone could do a better job, but that's not what America deserves- just someone who could do a better job.

I don't follow politics, but I'm pretty sure that the bids for the election start sometime at the beginning of the year, so we as a country have got oh roughly 4 months to unf*** this mess and find a better candidate for President, and then convince the poor bastard to run. Deez Nuts, I mean Donald Trump, should not be lasting this long in the discussion of realistic candidates for the President of the United States.

Just sayin.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

P.S. Why do I comment and why do I feel this way, despite generally disliking everything politics stand for?

Because I'm tired of watching you people complain for the last 8 years. And it's gotten you f***ing nowhere. 8 years. You went in a go**amn circle. Deal with that.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

P.S. Why do I comment and why do I feel this way, despite generally disliking everything politics stand for?

Because I'm tired of watching you people complain for the last 8 years. And it's gotten you f***ing nowhere. 8 years. You went in a go**amn circle. Deal with that.

you keep saying you don't follow politics yet you have some pretty well thought out opinions

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

you keep saying you don't follow politics yet you have some pretty well thought out opinions

I'll try to describe it as best I can as simply as possible.

It's like listening to two people argue for hours over what the answer is to 2+2. "The answer is 5, no, the answer is 6, you have to carry the sign, no that's not right. If that were right then all math is wrong!"

And then after so long I decide to lean in and say, "I know it's none of my business..........but the answers are in the back of the book."

 

[NoleandDawg]

How many administration officials attended the Michael Brown funeral? That guy was a thug but the administration didn't hesitate to take his side over that of the police. This administration is anti police which is sort of ironic since they appear to be promoting a police state.

 

[unIowa]

Blaming Obama is petty and silly in this situation IMO. However I would say the overall political tone in regards to the culture wars has gotten entirely too out of hand. You can't have our two political parties selling constant fear and victimization to our general public without having some sort of consequence and we are now seeing the dark side of this political messaging.

So I don't blame Obama but our political messaging is helping to lead to these type of events.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Blaming Obama is petty and silly in this situation IMO. However I would say the overall political tone in regards to the culture wars has gotten entirely too out of hand. You can't have our two political parties selling constant fear and victimization to our general public without having some sort of consequence and we are now seeing the dark side of this political messaging.

So I don't blame Obama but our political messaging is helping to lead to these type of events.

I'm curious. . . this officer in Texas that was killed. . . Was there any evidence the perp did it because of politics and not a personal issue with police since he has a long rap sheet?

I havn't followed this story too closely but I don't remember anything that really connected him to the political movements.

 

[unIowa]

I'm curious. . . this officer in Texas that was killed. . . Was there any evidence the perp did it because of politics and not a personal issue with police since he has a long rap sheet?

I havn't followed this story too closely but I don't remember anything that really connected him to the political movements.

I am not sure as I am just speculating but it has become pretty apparent to me that the constant selling of fear and victimization that our political parties have been spinning isn't good for the public and certainly isn't good for individuals that may have some mental issues.

Hell I got so sick of it I stopped watching and listening to any news coverage the past 3 years. I will read stuff online and everyone once in a while I will catch something on CNN that my wife is watching but I try to stay away from it...it has gotten to toxic level, pollutes the mind IMO.

Note: I watch lots of sporting news.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

I am not sure as I am just speculating but it has become pretty apparent to me that the constant selling of fear and victimization that our political parties have been spinning isn't good for the public and certainly isn't good for individuals that may have some mental issues.

Hell I got so sick of it I stopped watching and listening to any news coverage the past 3 years. I will read stuff online and everyone once in a while I will catch something on CNN that my wife is watching but I try to stay away from it...it has gotten to toxic level, pollutes the mind IMO.

Note: I watch lots of sporting news.

I agree with you quite a bit. It's very toxic on multiple levels, the language that is often used could cause people with less self control to take them seriously and make them believe that open war and violence are the only way to go. I just don't know if this an instance of it. It seems like some guy with a long rap sheet didn't like cops constantly arresting him so he shot one in the head. I think people on the outside have made this more political then it needs to be.