Controversial ex-Sheriff David Clarke Jr. expressed an unusual theory Wednesday. He hinted that the Florida students campaigning for gun control after the mass shooting in Parkland were organized by George Soros.
“The well ORGANIZED effort by Florida school students demanding gun control has GEORGE SOROS’ FINGERPRINTS all over it. It is similar to how he hijacked and exploited black people’s emotion regarding police use of force incidents into the COP HATING Black Lives Matter movement,” Clarke tweeted.
Clarke, who was a Milwaukee County sheriff, resigned last year. Rumors swirled that he would join the Trump administration, instead, he’s an advisor and spokesman for the America First Action PAC.
His entire career has been steeped in controversy.
He’s not the only one, however, who has been floating conspiracy theories regarding last week’s mass shooting.
A deranged teenager brought an AR-15 to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week and killed 17 people. 15 more were injured.The surviving students are using the atrocity as a launching pad for gun control activism.
An aide to a Florida lawmaker suggested that a few of the teens speaking out about the atrocity were really paid crisis actors. He was fired on Tuesday.
“Both kids in the picture are not students here but actors that travel to various crisis when they happen,” he wrote.
The condemnation was swift.
“On behalf of the entire Florida House, I sincerely apologize to the students targeted and again commend them for their courage through this unspeakable tragedy,” Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran tweeted within an hour.
The students’ reaction to the shooting is remarkable because it’s playing out on live TV. Multiple news networks are traveling with the young activists, documenting their every thought.
Most of the featured students have been poised and intelligent. Theories that at least a few of them are actors might be fueled by their unusual self-possession.
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(Source: The Hill)