Milwaukee Police Chief Gives Epic Response To ‘Racial Disparity’ Critics

Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn was criticized by media and verbally attacked by protesters in his community for being on his cellphone during a Fire and Police Commission meeting last month. The call was in reference to the shooting death of Dontre Hamilton, 31, by a police officer.

When reporters confronted Chief Flynn about the cellphone incident after the meeting, as well as some of the so-called “racial disparity” issues outside protestors are organization against, Flynn told them what was a pretty good reason for being on the phone, and also went on an epic monologue about the “greatest racial disparity in the city of Milwaukee.”

“Well I was on my phone, yes. That is true. 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,” Flynn said angrily. “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.”

He also said the race hustlers and mongers are nowhere to be found when he and others in the community are attempting to address the true causes why some 80 percent of all victims of shooting deaths in the city are African-American.

“The greatest racial disparity in the city of Milwaukee is getting shot and killed,” he added. “Hello!”

“Now, they know all about the last three people who have been killed by the Milwaukee Police Department in the course of the last several years. There’s not one of them that can name one of the last three homicide victims we’ve had in this city,” Flynn said. “But this community is at risk alright, and it’s not because men and women in blue risk their lives protecting it. It’s at risk because we have large numbers of high-capacity, quality firearms in the hands of remorseless criminals who don’t care who they shoot.”

“We are responsible for the things that we get wrong,” he said of his police department. “We’ve arrested cops, we’ve fired cops and so on,” he said. “But the fact is, the people here, some of them, who had the most to say, are absolutely MIA when it comes to the true threats facing this community. It gets a little tiresome, and when you start getting yelled at for reading the updates on the kid who got shot, yeah you take it personally, OK?”