Recently, the chief of Milwaukee’s law enforcement agency came under attack by black activists. The activists accused Flynn of not taking a recent officer-involved shooting seriously. That shooting ended with a black man named Donte Hamilton dead. The officer was defending himself from a potentially deadly attack by the deranged Hamilton, who had taken a police baton and violently assaulted the responding officer. As in Ferguson, groups very quickly accused white officers of being racist and of targeting blacks for no reason. At a police commission meeting related to that shooting, protesters began disrupting the group and shouting anti-police phrases at officers. They also singled out Chief Flynn as being uncaring and mocked him for being on his cell phone during part of the meeting. There was only one problem: Flynn was actually on his phone being notified about a drive-by shooting that was carried out by a black gang, which took the life of a 5-year-old girl. When a reporter outside the meeting brought up the phone call as a way to belittle Chief Flynn, he took it personally — and unleashed a verbal thrashing on the gathered crowd.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:57:18 +0000
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