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 from Clarke, but the letter did not give a reason. Clarke had more than a year left in office as sheriff. According to AP, questions to Clarke’s office were referred to an email address that he provided, and he has not responded to inquiries about the resignation.
Conservatives in Wisconsin had been pushing for Clarke to run for the U.S. Senate and challenge Democrat Tammy Baldwin, but according to AP, he rejected that idea repeatedly.
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He came under fire this year during an inquest into the dehydration death of an inmate in his jail, which raised questions about how he managed it. In June a former female inmate was awarded $6.7 million in damages for being repeatedly raped while she was in custody in Clarke’s jail four years ago.
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According to AP, Clarke earned more than $105,000 in speaking fees last year at more than three dozen events.
In the meantime, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, will be responsible for appointing someone to serve out the rest of Clarke’s term, which was due to end in 2018. That decision will be made once Walker’s office receives official notice of Clarke’s resignation.
Read more at Time magazine.
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I heard he is headed to the Trump's Administration. This is where greed lifts its ugly head in the black community. And the brother don't care he's black too. And it can happen to him...he sees what's happening all around him but it's about that power and almighty dollar. Like Foreman...Omarosa. To be honest....I'm kinda shocked and sad at the same time. I would never believe this....if someone had told me. But I'm witnessing it myself. Before my very eyes. The traders of the black culture. A cuture that groomed them and provided for them...these people have no loyalty. As why black journalists turned their backs on Omarosa. That's never done. Not in public...anyway. But now? They. Don't. Care. And both know..... whatever goes around....comes around. I have an all new respect for Sammy Davis, Jr. He was labeled an Uncle Tom but I have never in my lifetime at least...seen him deliberately throw his people under the bus....not like these folks. There was integrity about him....the respect for his talent. Yes he was into white girls but that's the "eunuch" gene. He never sold out. He was a proud man living in an era of segregation. It was only so much he could do. So for me? The game changer is when money comes in the picture causing black folks to betray their own people...like that Michael with the Trump sing. I know this type of thing happens in all cultures...but! When I see black people doin it and remember the people who fell on the blade for them to have the rights we now engage in daily without much thought..... I become nauseous. The open disrespect for all the sacrifices is appalling. It's so ridiculous...all I can think to say is my people my people my people. 
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