He asked Clarke if he was Milwaukee's sheriff, according to his lawsuit, and when Clarke said yes, Black shook his head disapprovingly. When Black publicized the encounter and filed his lawsuit, Clarke responded with a series of Facebook posts. Later, making fun of Black, Clarke wrote on Facebook: "Cheer up, snowflake ... if Sheriff Clarke were to really harass you, you wouldn't be around to whine about it." But earlier this month, Judge J.P. Stadtmueller dismissed all but one of Black's claims — whether Clarke's Facebook posts were threatening enough to be considered a deterrent to future speech. But, he also said "the Court cannot say Clarke's posts were so trivial that no jury could find them to be sufficiently threatening."

Source: ABC News January 21, 2018 16:18 UTC