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MILWAUKEE SHERIFF: RIOTS CAUSED BY 'WELFARE STATE'

Democrat 'policies have hit the black community like a nuclear blast'

Art moore

The claim that racially motivated police officers are routinely targeting young black men across America was at the center of two nights of rioting in Milwaukee that followed the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man by a city officer

Once again, although the investigation is ongoing, the prevailing narrative on the street doesn’t appear to match the facts. 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.

Milwaukee Country Sheriff David Clarke, an African-American, believes there is a serious social problem at the heart of the unrest and the incidents with police nationwide.

But he thinks racism is not the chief cause.

In an interview on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” with Martha MacCallum, Clarke said the police shooting Saturday was simply an “igniter.”

“Here is what causes riots,” he said. “We have inescapable poverty in the city of Milwaukee. Milwaukee is sixth poorest city in America. You have massive black unemployment, I think at 32 percent. You have a failing K-12 public education system. It’s one of the worst in the nation. You have questionable lifestyle choices. Some of this is self-inflicted. All the kids with no fathers around, father, absent homes. When fathers are not around to shape behavior of young men, they often times grow up to be unmanageable misfits.”

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Clarke noted there was no rioting in response to four other murders in Milwaukee the night before.

Citing statistics showing that about 70 percent of children born in Milwaukee don’t have “an engaged father in their life,” he said it’s “progressive policies that have marginalized black dads.”

“They push them to the side, said you’re not needed. Uncle Sam is going to be the dad. He’s going to provide for kids. He’s going to feed the kids,” Clarke said.

“But Uncle Sam has been a horrible father. Uncle Sam does not like the kids. He keeps a little food in their mouth and that’s about it. But we all know the importance of an intact family, what it can do to shape behavior of kids.”

The impact of the welfare state can be seen in other cities as well, he said, naming Chicago, Baltimore and New York as examples.

“This has been a total collapse, a disaster,” he said. “These progressive policies have hit the black community like a nuclear blast. And until we reverse this, this government dependency, that is what creates all of this, and it encourages it by the way, along with questionable lifestyle choices.”

Clarke said that “until the black community does self-evaluation and until they begin to self-criticize about some of the lifestyle choices they are making, this stuff is going to continue to fester and it’s going to continue.”

He specifically called on Milwaukee’s “political class,” led by “progressive Democrats,” to be honest and admit the government dependency they have established has “backfired.”

The sheriff, however, advocated gradual reform, saying “you can’t pull rug out from under people all at once.”

“Let’s slowly start to reverse this and make people, make people reach for self-sufficiency. Over time you can reverse this.”

He charge progressives are motivated by “black votes” and maintain their power by “keeping black people hooked on the high of handouts.”

It’s war

Meanwhile, a leader of the People’s New Black Panther Party told Breitbart News the violence in Milwaukee over the weekend is part of a “war.”

“Is it a war? Yes, it is. It’s a war against black people because we’re the ones being murdered,” he told Breitbart’s Aaron Klein.

Babu Omowale, the so-called national minister of defense for People’s New Black Panther Party, described the war as an “oppressed people fighting against a racist, white supremacist police system, which is meant to oppress a certain group of people: more than likely black people and poor people around the country.”

“What you see is people lashing out and fighting against the system. As it is said in the Second Amendment, you know,” he said. “So this is not new. The people in this country have always defended themselves against tyranny. So I can’t liken this to a civil war. No it’s not. Is it a war? Yes, it is. It’s a war against black people because we’re the ones being murdered.”

Long arrest record

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday the man shot and killed by police Saturday, Smith, was charged last year in a shooting and later charged with trying to intimidate a witness in the case.

Arrest records released by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office show Smith was arrested or ticketed nine times since 2011 for the shooting, a robbery, carrying a concealed weapon, theft, possession of heroin and more. His most recent arrest was July 22 for possession of cocaine.

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