Polarizing Milwaukee Sheriff Denies CNN Write Up That He Plagiarized

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Milwaukee County Sheriff St. David Clarke, WHO said death week he undisputed a line of work with the U.S. Department of Motherland Security, has denied a study that he plagiarized substance in his 2013 master's thesis, career the story's newsperson a "sleaze bag."

Clarke, an African-American language World Health Organization became a stem critic of the Blacken Lives Subject cause and supported Republican Donald Trump's head of state campaign, upraised terminology from multiple sources for his thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School, CNN reported on Sat.

Clarke provided footnotes for the sources of the thesis papers for sale, coroneted "Making U.S. security and privacy rights compatible," the tarradiddle by CNN newsperson St. Andrew Kaczynski aforementioned. Just the dissertation failed to practice citation marks where Clarke put-upon passages verbatim, which breaches schooltime guidelines, the mesh aforesaid.

"Guy is a sleaze bag. I'm on to him folks," Clarke wrote of Kaczynski in a Chirrup Emily Price Post tardily on Sabbatum. The Post linked to a tarradiddle in which Republican Senator Rand Saul of Tarsus of Bluegrass State pushed rear against a Kaczynski tale for Buzzfeed News, in which he was accused of victimisation disputed quotes.

The Milwaukee Daybook Lookout man reported that Clarke aforesaid in an electronic mail to the paper, "Only someone with a political agenda would say this is plagiarism."

The Naval Graduate School, in Monterey, California, did non answer to a bespeak for comment.

On Twitter, Kaczynski wrote on Sunday, "Sheriff Clarke has yet to respond to the substance of our story."

Clark said on Wednesday that he had unquestioned a subcontract as supporter secretary at the Section of Mother country Security. In a wireless interview, he aforesaid he would work as a link with country and local constabulary and governments and with the secret sector.

David Lapan, a section spokesman, aforesaid by electronic mail that no annunciation on Clarke had been made.

Clarke radius in backup of Outdo at the Republican Subject Normal in Cleveland end July. He has criticized the Fateful Lives Matter movement, which grew proscribed of protests over a telephone number of constabulary killings of unarmed black men, as "subhuman creeps."

Critics hold faulted Clarke for his management of a Milwaukee County lag where a mentally badly homo died in 2016 of drying up later on vii days without piddle. An inquest panel suggested that VII employees of the immure be reprehensively supercharged. (Coverage by Ian Simpson; Editing by Sandra Maler)