Milwaukee Police Chief Goes Off

Here’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin police chief Edward Flynn going off on critics of his department in the wake of a controversial police shooting.

Flynn’s comments – directed at what one of our readers referred to as “the black underclass subculture” – have gone viral due to their impassioned bluntness.

The drama started last month when Milwaukee police officer Christopher Manney (who is white) shot and killed 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton (who is black). Flynn canned Manney in the wake of the shooting (taking heat from the local union in the process), but that wasn’t enough to satisfy protesters – many of whom showed up at a subsequent public meeting to give him fresh hell.

During that meeting, Flynn was widely rebuked by protesters for checking his cell phone – which was perceived by them as a sign of disrespect for the victim (and the black community in general).

Flynn, as seen in the video clip below, was having none of it … especially given the reason he was checking his cell phone.

“I was on my phone, yes. That is true,” he said in the clip. “I was following developments about 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 gave a good goddamn about the victimization of people in this community by crime, I’d take some of their invective more seriously.”

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