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WEBVTT AD HISDEPUTIES CONFRONT A FELLOW PLANEPASSENGER.TONIGHT WE'RE ALSO FINDING OUT, WHAT STEPS THE COUNTY IS GOINGTO TAKE WITH THAT COMPLAINT.>> HE DOESN'T DISPUTE A SINGLETHING I SAID.HE POSTS MY FULL COMPLAINT.DAN BLACK RESPONDED WEDNESDAYTO SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE'SFACEBOOK POST AFTER BLACK FILEDA FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST THESHERIFF.THE INTERACTION STEMS FROM THEIRFLIGHT FROM DALLAS SUNDAY.I SEE HIM.HE'S A MILWAUKEE OFFICIAL.HE'S FLYING BACK TO MILWAUKEE OTHE BIG GAME DAY, WEARINGCOWBOYS GEAR.I'M SURPRISED I'M THE ONLY ONEWHO NOTICED OR SAID ANYTHING TOHIM.>> DAN BLACK SAYS HE'S A LAWABIDING, PEACEFUL GUY.ON THE PLANE HE ASKED CLARKE IFHE WAS THE SHERIFF THEN BLACK, SHOOK HIS HEAD.CLARKE WROTE ON FACEBOOK TODAY"NEXT TIME HE OR ANYONE ELSEPULLS THIS STUNT ON A PLANE THEYMAY GET KNOCKED OUT." THE SHERIFF SAID HE DOES NOTHAVE TO WAIT FOR SOME GOOF TOASSAULT HIM.HE RESERVES THE REASONABLE RIGHTTO PREEMPT A POSSIBLE ASSAULT.I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE FIGHTING.THAT'S NOT, AND FOR HIM TO COMEBACK AND SAY HE'S GOING TO KNOCKME OUT, THAT'S MORECONFRONTATIONAL THAN I EVER WASTO HIM.>> BLACK RECORDED VIDEO AFTERTHEY GOT OFF THE PLANE AS HESAYS THE SHERIFF ORDERED A HALFDOZEN DEPUTIES AND TWO K 9'S TOESCORT HIM TO A WAITING AREA TOBE QUESTIONETHEN THEY ESCORTED BLACKOUT OFTHE AIRPORT.>> CIVILITY, DECENCY, ANDRESPECT.THAT IS A BARE MINIMUM.COUNTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OFCOMMUNICATIONS MELISSA BALDAUFFSAYS BLACK'S COMPLAINT WILL BEFORWARDED TO THE ETHICS BOARFOR REVIEW.>> IT IS UPSETTING THAT THESHERIFF WOULD BE USING HISTAXPAYER FUNDED SOCIAL MEDIAACCOUNT TO MAKE A PREEMPTIVETHREAT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST APRIVATE CITIZEN.HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT THE WAYHE ABANDON THIS COUNTY TO GO ONTHE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.I DON' WON A CONFRONTATION.I DON'T WANT TO BE THROWN OFFTHE PLANE.>> SO THE SHERIFF'S ASSERTIONTHAT BLACK PRESENTED A THREAT INDALLAS PRESENTS A COMMON SENSEQUESTION.WHY DIDN'T THE SHERIFF ALERT THEFLIGHT CREW AND LAW ENFORCEMENON T PLANE IN DALLAS?WE WILL FIND MORE OUT AS WECONTINUE TO TRY TO GET AN ANSWERFROM THE SHERIFF.

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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke on Wednesday responded to a complaint about a possible abuse of power with the following message from the Sheriff's Office Facebook page: "Next time he or anyone else pulls this stunt on a plane they may get knocked out. The Sheriff said he does not have to wait for some goof to assault him. He reserves the reasonable right to pre-empt a possible assault," he wrote on Facebook. On Tuesday, Riverwest resident Dan Black filed a formal complaint with the county, alleging that sheriff's deputies interrogated him and treated him "like a criminal" at Mitchell International Airport following a conversation with Clarke on board a flight from Dallas on Sunday. "I see him. He's a Milwaukee official. He's flying back to Milwaukee on the big game day. He's wearing Cowboys gear. I'm surprised I'm the only one who noticed or said anything to him," Black told WISN 12 News. Black said he's a law-abiding, peaceful guy. "I don't like people fighting. That's not, and for him to come back and say he's going to knock me out, that's more confrontational than I ever was to him," Black said. Black recorded video after they got off the plane as he said the sheriff ordered a half dozen deputies and two K-9s to escort him to a waiting area to be questioned. Then they escorted Black out of the airport. "Civility, decency and respect, that's the bare minimum," Milwaukee County Executive Director of Communications Melissa Baldauff said. She said Black's complaint will be forwarded to the ethics board for review. "It is upsetting that the sheriff would be using his taxpayer-funded social media account to make a preemptive threat of violence against a private citizen," Baldauff said.