Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office

One of the organizations that sponsors these trainings is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL is a non-profit that works to combat anti-Semitism and advocate for Israel. In this context, the ADL runs a National Counter-Terrorism Seminar that has sent hundreds of top ranking officials to Israel to learn about combatting terror since 2003. That same year the ADL established an Advanced Training School that brings delegations of Israeli law enforcement to speak to American law enforcement officials, involving over 1,000 U.S. participants since the program began.

The Sheriff’s Office of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel. David A. Clarke, Jr. served as Sheriff of Milwaukee County between 2002 and 2017. Sheriff Clarke attended a training in Israel with the ADL as a delegate of the National Counter Terrorism Seminar in April 2011. In 2015, Sheriff Clarke attended another training with the ADL as a delegate of the Advanced Training School in December 2015.

Clarke is a controversial and prominent Trump surrogate and, after resigning from his position as Sheriff, he was hired by pro-Trump PAC America First Action as a spokesman and senior advisor. He has been involved in dozens of controversies, including being accused of beating detainees (among many other cases of prison deaths and civil rights abuses under his leadership) in his county jail, and is a prominent voice in many conservative circles.

Sheriff Clarke has previously compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the KKK, repeatedly calling the movement “Black LIES Matter,” labeling it as a hate group and a “terrorist organization” in his memoir. In an interview on the Fox and Friends news shows in 2015, he denied the existence of police brutality, saying:

“First off, there is no police brutality in America. We ended that back in the ’60s.

In a 2015 personal podcast he published, he said Black Americans “sell drugs […] and involve themselves in criminal behavior…. because they are uneducated … lazy … and [] morally bankrupt.