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Sheriff David Clarke, Jr. has a question for Eric Holder on the 'damn punk' arrested in Ferguson

Now that an arrest has been made in the case involving the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Mo. on March 12, let’s take a quick look back at the language Attorney General Eric Holder used to describe the shooter right after the attack occurred:

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“A damn punk.”

Which leads us to this one great question for Holder from Sheriff of Milwaukee County and Twitchy favorite David Clarke, Jr:

Ha! It’s a lot easier to call an unknown assailant a “damn punk” when it’s not an African-American who has been identified by cops as one of the Ferguson protesters.

More from Sheriff Clarke:

Probably.

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