Watch this Police Chief lose it during a press conference. Amid heightened tensions in his community, a Police Chief reacted with outrage, after critics said he was being disrespectful by being on his cell phone during a public meeting. Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn was attending a Fire and Police Commission meeting Thursday on the shooting death earlier this year of an unarmed man by one of his officers, when he learned of a child being killed during a drive-by shooting. “I was on my phone. Yes, that’s true,” Flynn told a reporter. “I was following the developments of a 5-year-old girl sitting on her dad’s lap who just got shot in the head by a drive-by shooting. If some of the people here gave a good godd*^n about the victimization of the people in this community by crime, I’d take some of their invective more seriously.” “Now, they know all about the last three people who have been killed by the Milwaukee Police Department over the course of the last several years, there’s not one of them can name one of the last three homicide victims we’ve had in this city,” Flynn said. “I’m leaving here to go that scene,” he said as tears welled up in his eyes. “And I take it personally. We’re going up there and there’s a bunch of cops up there processing a scene of a dead kid.” The officer involved in the earlier shooting, Christopher Manney, was fired for not following department rules. Manney got into an altercation with Donte Hamilton, 31, who gained control of the officer’s baton. After being struck with it, Manney shot Hamilton, according to an internal affairs investigation. Flynn is under pressure from the community to stand by the firing, although the police union said the decision was “unprecedented,” with 99.3 percent of its 1,600 members casting a vote of no confidence in Flynn. It is damn sad when an officer needs to be wrongly sacrificed for the, so called, good of the community, just so that the black community will not riot like they did in Ferguson, Missouri.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:15:02 +0000
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