No officer of the law should be associating with a man who has been discredited because of his ties to militias, white supremacists and anti-Semitic groups. Return your "High Noon" award to Larry Pratt and Gun Owners of America immediately and make it clear you serve the interests of your constituents, not extremists and their gun industry benefactors

Anti-government militias. White supremacists. Anti-Semitic groups. These are the type of organizations our law enforcement officials should be protecting us from, not saddling up next to.

But that’s exactly what Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke did on June 1, 2013 when he accepted an award from Gun Owners of America and their president Larry Pratt, a pro-gun extremist with dangerous ties to all of these groups.

No officer of the peace should be accepting an award from an anti-government extremist.

Pratt’s dangerous associations have been well-known for years. In 1996, ultra-conservative presidential candidate Pat Buchanan even had to kick Pratt off his campaign because of them.

Since then, Pratt hasn’t stopped. Just recently, he went on a conspiracy theorist’s radio show and suggested that that the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado was staged.

These kinds of views deserve condemnation and scorn, not the implicit endorsement Sheriff Clarke gave them.

It s time for the Sheriff to make clear that his office serves his constituents, not extremists and their gun industry benefactors.

Tell Sheriff Clarke: Don’t legitimize extremists. Give back the Gun Owners of America award.