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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 12:10 AM Aug 2016

Milwaukee on Edge as Curfew Takes Effect

Source: NBC News

Milwaukee authorities, with over 100 National Guard members on hand as backup, waited warily as a 10 p.m. curfew for teenagers went into effect Monday after two straight nights of violent street protests over the fatal police shooting of a local man.

"After 10 o'clock, your teenagers better be home or in a place where they're off the streets," Mayor Tom Barrett warned earlier in the day.

Barrett made the announcement as tensions remained high in the Sherman Park neighborhood, with police out in force.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said 123 National Guard members were in town "as a precaution" to assist local authorities if needed.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/milwaukee-on-edge-as-curfew-takes-effect/ar-BBvFlWW?li=BBnbcA1



Wasn't Scott Walker and Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke bragging about how they were going to crack some heads and bring law and order to America? Indeed, here Milwaukee Sheriff using the riots as an opportunity to slam on Democrats and liberals as riots rage around him. No wonder he is a Trump supporter, since he blames his failure on everyone but himself.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/crime/291435-sheriff-david-clarke-liberal-politics-and-media-fueled-milwaukee

The Milwaukee riots should be the last time the policies of liberal Democrats are held up as anything other than misery-inducing, divisive, exploitative and racist manipulation of the urban populations. Unfortunately they won’t.

As Sheriff of Milwaukee County, I am furious that the progressive left has put my citizens in harm’s way and that I had to send my officers into cauldrons of anarchy and hatred that were created by the left.

As an elected public servant I am livid that Milwaukee’s pathetic, kowtowing city officials and aldermen take this opportunity to abandon their citizens and preen before the Black Lives Matter-enabling media.

As a leader who understands that freedom and earned success are the pathways out of the ghetto, I’m disappointed, too, in any Republican that feels they need to tiptoe around the patently obvious issue at-hand: we are folding our society of freedom ensured through law-and- order over to bullies of the left. The politicians and talking heads on both sides of the aisle who offer little resistance and total cowardice.
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