This past Monday, Megyn Kelly welcomed back Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke so they could speak about the recent shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina.
Kelly began the segment by sharing a video, which has gone excessively viral, by a man named Will Stack. In the video, Stack recounts his successful and respectful encounter with a police officer and tells his audience that society needs to stop labeling people and start defining people as individuals. For a short two-minute video, it’s pretty powerful stuff.
Sheriff Clarke is reintroduced and not only comments on the video, but also comments on his fear of how the mainstream media will try to strangle his voice.
“Good for that gentleman. That stuff plays itself out in cities all across America every day of the year, where officers conduct themselves the way they should, in a professional standard. I just wonder how long it will take the liberal mainstream media and the race provocateurs to start combing through that gentleman’s past to try and find something to discredit him.”
Stack’s message does play in stark contrast to what men like Al Sharpton would have people believe about American police. Sharpton recently spoke before a congregation in South Carolina and said, “In the deep south, a mayor and police chief did what we couldn’t get mayors in the north and mid-west to do.” He is celebrating the fact that Walter Scott's killer, Michael Slager, was a cop who got arrested and charged with murder. He also said that "I'm not anti-police. We're anti-police brutality." It's pretty hard to believe someone saying that when they refuse to accept forensic-based facts and do nothing but accuse and demonize any officer with the misfortune of having their unfortunate incidents widely publicized.
Sheriff Clarke stated it was no surprise to hear Sharpton reveling within his own agenda. He says, despite what Sharpton believes, the justice system "did it right" in regards to similar cases, such as the case in Ferguson.
“Every time Al Sharpton opens his mouth he takes his ignorance to new heights, so I wouldn’t expect anything different here. Look, they got it right in Ferguson, regardless of what Al Sharpton thinks. They got it right in New York, they got it right in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with some similar circumstances.”
He says the only reason Sharpton happens to agree with the handling of the case in South Carolina is because “it’s in line with his warped sense of justice.” (Get some water on those burns.)
Kelly then begs the question: if people come to accept the facts of Ferguson, will they now rush behind Walter Scott’s case as a prime example of the narrative that white cops unjustifiably shoot unarmed black men?
Sheriff Clarke rejects such tactics.
“I reject it because I’m not going to let anybody use what is an outlier, an anomaly, in this situation, so far. I’m not standing in judgment, because I don’t know all the facts in South Carolina and I want to let those officials, because I trust the process, I want to let them finish their investigation. But, I’m not going to let anybody use that as some sort of macrocosm about American policing. I’ve said it on your show, and many others, that 99.9% of law enforcement officers go out and put their best foot forward to protect their communities. They serve with honor, distinction, integrity, and character.”
He says that .1% shouldn’t define all police officers. He certainly wouldn’t hold the entire black population accountable for the crimes of a few.
“I wouldn’t indite(sic) an entire population just because the suspects happen to be black. I deal with these things on an individual basis and I hold them individually responsible, not an entire race of people and I don’t expect anybody to do that with the American policing profession.”
See both the Kelly File segment and Will Stack's full video below: