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Former Sheriff David Clarke Temporarily Suspended by Twitter Over Tweets Attacking Media
The Wrap ^ | January 2, 2018 | Reid Nakamura

Posted on 01/02/2018 2:46:06 PM PST by EdnaMode

Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke was temporarily suspended from Twitter on Tuesday over tweets violating the platform’s terms of service.

According to CNN, Clarke was placed on “limited status” over three tweets threatening violence against members of the media. He is unable to post until the offending tweets were deleted.

“When LYING LIB MEDIA makes up MAKE NEWS to smear me, the ANTIDOTE is to go right at them,” Clarke wrote in one of the now-deleted tweets, “Punch them in the nose & MAKE THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD. Nothing gets a bully like LYING LIB MEDIA”S attention better than to give them a taste of their own blood #neverbackdown.” It was accompanied by a photo of Donald Trump’s face photoshopped onto the body of a wrestler kicking another wrestler labeled CNN

On Tuesday, Clarke tweeted another message saying he would not be “intimidated into silence by LYING LIB MEDIA,” saying he was targeted by “LIBERAL hyper partisan government HACKS who weaponize government authorirty to go after people whose views they don’t like.”

A conservative Trump supporter, Clarke resigned as sheriff in September to join the pro-Trump political action committee America First Action. He previously announced in May that he had accepted a position in the Department of Homeland Security, an announcement he later rescinded.

Clarke’s reps didn’t immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidclarke; liberalfascism; liberalhypocrisy; newmedia; sheriffclarke; twitter; twittercensorship
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To: Luke21
Mark Dice discusses all this in his latest book:
21 posted on 01/02/2018 3:05:56 PM PST by Signalman
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To: EdnaMode

Well let’s all sign up for Twitter and start talking about the media so we can get suspended too.


22 posted on 01/02/2018 3:08:49 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: EdnaMode

I hate how so many places try to control discourse

Even Breitbart forum reviews posts if you post key words

Breitbart is very partial to purging particular criticisms

Silly


23 posted on 01/02/2018 3:11:12 PM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: nickcarraway

Not an echo chamber but a counter to a near monopoly the left has on social media

Which they indeed manipulate


24 posted on 01/02/2018 3:12:42 PM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: EdnaMode

I think The Sheriff should call them out.


25 posted on 01/02/2018 3:13:33 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: EdnaMode
Here is Clarke's Youtube channel:
Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr.
26 posted on 01/02/2018 3:13:55 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: wardaddy
I hate how so many places try to control discourse

The reality is that some posts have to be stopped, or the site will be shut down and the owner be in legal trouble.

You can either enforce the rules, or don't run a forum.

27 posted on 01/02/2018 3:14:02 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: EdnaMode

Twitter wants to receive protection under the First Amendment but denies it to its users.

Typical Lib attitude.


28 posted on 01/02/2018 3:14:20 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG
Twitter wants to receive protection under the First Amendment but denies it to its users.

Threatening violence isn't protected under the 1st Amendment.

29 posted on 01/02/2018 3:14:59 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: TChris

Where did David Clarke threaten violence towards anyone?


30 posted on 01/02/2018 3:18:49 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: TChris

Depends on how it is said!


31 posted on 01/02/2018 3:22:38 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: EdnaMode

Free speech for me but not for thee.


32 posted on 01/02/2018 3:26:59 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: EdnaMode

When will the media be suspended for falsely attacking a private citizen ?


33 posted on 01/02/2018 3:31:37 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: EdnaMode

Just tweeted the article. See if I’m suspended.


34 posted on 01/02/2018 3:31:43 PM PST by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: Billyv
I wish I had the skills and ability to start a conservative “twitter” perhaps call it Conservatwit?

Already done.

It's called GAB.AI

GAB | Ad-free social media for all

35 posted on 01/02/2018 3:33:58 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Jane Long

I saw a thread about this. A bunch of libs tweeted that they sent Twitter complaints about his tweet.


36 posted on 01/02/2018 3:34:30 PM PST by DLfromthedesert (#BuildKate'sWall)
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To: NEWwoman

Good luck!


37 posted on 01/02/2018 3:37:39 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode
Clarke suspended from Twitter for attacking Media.

Yet... who started it ?

NBC's Year-End Fake News Tweets Target Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke

38 posted on 01/02/2018 3:43:33 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: EdnaMode

Twitter did not have any problem with Shelia Jackson Lee calling the lady from whom she stole her seat on a United Airlines flight from Houston to D. C. a racist without having one iota of information about the lady. Twitter is liberal and biased just like the Fake News Media.


39 posted on 01/02/2018 3:48:07 PM PST by Saltmeat
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To: EdnaMode

Twitter > where judge and jury meets freedom

Twitter > where good honest opinion and free speech ends

Twitter > where the cousins of the 1st Amendment crawled off to die

Twitter > where Leftists go when nobody else will listen


40 posted on 01/02/2018 3:49:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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