Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said on Fox News Friday that AG Eric Holder, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D), and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) are making “irresponsible and inflammatory” comments about the police force that is “a slap in the face to every law-enforcement officer in America.” Clarke focused particularly on Holder, who he said owes either an explanation or an apology to law enforcement.

After commenting on the problem of people outside the community converging on the area, Clarke turned his attention on Holder and two of the states’ key Democratic leaders:

Clarke told Fox that Holder and the Democratic leaders in Missouri, Nixon and McCaskill, were

I think that some of the officials in Missouri, like Governor Nixon, Senator McCaskill, and even the Attorney General of the United States, made some irresponsible and inflammatory statements during this time, which didn’t help the situation. Insinuating that our law-enforcement officers across the United States engage in some nefarious or systematic and cultural attempts to violate people’s civil rights.

I thought that was a slap in the face to every law-enforcement officer in America who... puts on the badge and the uniform everyday to go out and risk their lives in service to their community.

Holder in particular Clarke argued needed to give police officers an explanation or apology for his anecdotal reference to racial profiling and “adding hot sauce to this volatile situation”:

I think the attorney general needs to either further explain his anecdotal references to being racially profiled—as if officers across America do this thing. And I think that he owes every law enforcement officer across America an apology.

He doesn’t owe me an apology, but the men and women I know of do not have that kind of maliciousness in their hearts, and I thought that that was a poor display in terms of leadership—and adding hot sauce to this volatile situation as well.

Clarke made headlines last year when he encouraged members of his community in a PSA to purchase guns for self-defense.

H/T NRO.