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Former KPD officer accused of threatening prosecutor in Facebook posts
KNOXVILLE, TENN. -- A former Knoxville Police Department officer who confessed to plying teenage girls with booze is now accused of threatening a prosecutor as part of a holy war with “the true mission of death.”
“Everything I do, I do it for your (sic) Lord and to carry out the true mission of death,” Donald Scott Clark wrote on a Facebook posting.
Clark was arrested at his Maynardville home Friday night by a small army of officers responding to what authorities allege was a threat to the life of Knox County Assistant District Attorney General Steve Sword. Clark is charged with the rarely cited offense of retaliation for past action, which makes it a felony to threaten a witness or judicial official engaged in carrying out the business of justice.
Contacted Sunday, Sword said he could not discuss the specific threat made against him.
“I appreciate the work of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and Knoxville Police Department in protecting me and my family,” said Sword, a married father of young children who specializes in prosecuting crimes against children.
Sword was not seeking to jail Clark when Clark and then-fellow KPD Officer Nicky Ray Bryant pleaded guilty earlier this year to a misdemeanor charge of plying two 13-year-old girls with booze. Instead, Sword agreed to allow Clark and Bryant to be placed on probation. Both already had lost their jobs.
However, at a hearing earlier this month, defense attorney Gregory P. Isaacs sought for Clark judicial diversion, a move that would allow him to ask that his record be wiped clean if he complies with the terms of his probation. Sword balked, and Criminal Court Judge Bob McGee delayed a ruling to allow Sword time to present more evidence.
Clark then lashed out at Sword in a series of Facebook posts obtained by the News Sentinel this weekend. While Clark’s Facebook rant does not constitute the entirety of the evidence on which the retaliation charge was based, it is cited in court records as part of the foundation of the case.
Isaacs on Sunday termed Clark’s Facebook posts the ramblings of a drug-addled ex-cop rather than a credible threat against Sword.
“Scott Clark did not intend to threaten or harm any individual,” Isaacs said. “His comments on his private Facebook page are confidential and private, much like a diary. These random thoughts, influenced by prescription medication such as (sleep medicine) Ambien, do not rise to the level of a viable threat.”
In a series of Facebook posts, Clark wrote that the “first stage” of his holy war was “already in effect.”
“God forgive me for what I had to do,” he wrote. “You started this, Steve Sword. Unfortunately, to truly fight evil, one must become evil.”
In another posting dated one day after his hearing in McGee’s court, Clark wrote, “For Thomas Jefferson stated, ‘The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with fresh blood.’ ”
A day later, he wrote: “I’ll turn the other cheek when I send them all to their graves. Oh, God, I pray you … forget (sic) me now for what I am now forced to do.”
Clark also offered up on Facebook what he called “Plan B.”
“I just kill everyone,” he wrote.
Clark is free on $5,000 bond.
Comments
Warning about Ambien. It can really mess you up. Ask Congressmen Kennedy in the loonybin.
Can no one see the true repentance that is so evident in the eyes of the poor defendant AND the total humility represented by the sack cloth and ashes pin stripes worn by his morally superior attorney?
Holy Cow. Greg Isaacs looks like he's getting ready for a meeting with the five families.
So Facebook is confidential and private? When did this happen?
Isaacs needs socks on those nasty feet.
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