Twitter takes down Clarke Jr.’s coronavirus tweets, won’t remove posts from Chinese official blaming U.S. for the outbreak

Twitter on Monday removed tweets from former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Jr., in which he downplayed the severity of COVID-19 and urged people to ignore the newly-imposed measures aimed at preventing the spread of the virus.

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Twitter took down some of the tweets, citing violations of its policy against self-harm. It is unclear why the remaining tweets weren’t removed.

What he said: Clarke on Sunday posted a series of tweets in response to the steps the U.S. is taking to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. In one now-deleted tweet, Clarke claimed the closures of bars and restaurants were part of an “orchestrated attempt to destroy CAPITALISM” and called on business to “defy the order.

In another claimed, he wrote that he’s “tired” of the idea that “we have to err on the side of caution” and referred to the COVID-19 as the flu. The third tweet Twitter deleted asked people to “take to the streets.”

The rest of Clarke’s tweets about the coronavirus are still visible on the platform.

GO INTO THE STREETS FOLKS. Visit bars, restaurants, shopping malls, CHURCHES and demand that your schools re-open. NOW!
If government doesn’t stop this foolishness…STAY IN THE STREETS.
END GOVERNEMNT CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
THIS IS AN EXPLOITATION OF A CRISIS.

— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) March 15, 2020

Not ONE media outlet has asked about George Soros’s involvement in this FLU panic. He is SOMEWHERE involved in this.

— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) March 15, 2020

Clarke’s response: The former Milwaukee Sheriff blasted Twitter in a statement to The Daily Beast and said he’s moving to another platform.

“I notice that everytime I get on a roll excoriating liberals and their policies, complaints about my Tweets start to pop up. I find it interesting that The Daily Beast can actually get a hold of a live spokesperson at Twitter. I nor anybody else can do that as the totalitarian fascist speech suppression bullies at Twitter cleverly have a system that doesn’t allow anyone to reach a human being during its appeal process. All I get are computer generated responses,” Clarke said.

“My tweets are not for the feint (sic) of heart and that won’t change.”

He also sent a meme that compares him to black-face-wearing actor Al Jolson, the Daily Beast reported, and referred to Clarke as  the “only black life that doesn’t matter.”

“I didn’t complain. Politics is a contact sport. You are going to hit and sometimes you will be hit. Mine aren’t this vile however. People including Twitter officials don’t like my content and I won’t seek their approval,” Clarke said.

His Twitter description currently reads: “I AM LEAVING TWITTER DUE TO THEIR CONSERVATIVE SPEECH CONTROL. TOTALITARIAN BIGOTS,” and suggests he is moving to the social media app Parler.

Meanwhile, Twitter refused to remove a tweet from Lijian Zhao, deputy director of China’s Foreign Ministry Information Department. In a tweet he posted on March 12, Zhao speculated that the U.S. military might have brought the novel coronavirus to China.

Twitter said the post doesn’t violate its policies.

Zhao also claimed that the Centers For Disease Control director Robert Redfield was arrested, which did not happen.

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