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BOOM: Milwaukee Police Chief Explodes...
ClashDaily ^ | November 27, 2014 | Doug Giles

Posted on 11/29/2014 10:21:37 AM PST by celmak

Earlier this month, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn was verbally attacked by protesters in his community for being on his cellphone during a Fire and Police Commission meeting related to the officer-involved shooting death of Dontre Hamilton, 31. When reporters confronted Flynn about the cellphone incident after the meeting, he not only revealed that he had a good reason to be on it, but he also went on a tirade 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.”

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

“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.”

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KEYWORDS: baglist; banglist; brown; firearms; guncontrol; police; race
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WOW! This Chief should run for governor!

FULL TITLE - "BOOM: Milwaukee Police Chief Explodes on Black Protesters for Ignoring Crime’s ‘Greatest Racial Disparity’"

1 posted on 11/29/2014 10:21:37 AM PST by celmak
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To: celmak
He was doing pretty good up to this point:

"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.”

Then he lost it.

It isn't the firearms that commit crimes, it is the thugs. He could have blamed the criminals, but went off on the guns instead, which makes me wonder if his 'solution' isn't to do away with "high-capacity, quality firearms".

2 posted on 11/29/2014 10:27:02 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: celmak

High capacity firearms are NOT the problem, I have several as to many of my friends NON of us are using them to commit crime. The CRIMINAL element in his city is the problem and he ENABLING community in which they live.

If he was elected I see him being a “lets take the guns away from the citizens then maybe some day deal with the criminals that still have them..” type but that is a quick read he may not be..


3 posted on 11/29/2014 10:27:48 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: Bidimus1

that would be NONE.. did not mean to use french.. ;)


4 posted on 11/29/2014 10:29:37 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: celmak

don’t let his tough talk fool you - he was probably ordering take out


5 posted on 11/29/2014 10:40:01 AM PST by mouse1 (Cruz/Palin 2016)
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To: celmak

Was he joining the Ferguson crowd?

Sounds like something Al or Jesse might say


6 posted on 11/29/2014 10:43:18 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: celmak

I guess he wants more white drive-by killings too, to even things out


7 posted on 11/29/2014 10:43:52 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Smokin' Joe
He was talking about the huge number of blacks who kill other blacks in their own community, while that same community all but ignores it.

I did not hear him say he was against the law abiding citizens who have FA's. That would be a whole different issue if that's his position.

8 posted on 11/29/2014 10:45:34 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: celmak

“Oh mother, don’t be so sentimental. People explode every day....”


9 posted on 11/29/2014 10:56:52 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Bidimus1; Smokin' Joe
Chief seemed a bit too emphatic about the "high-capacity, quality firearms" for my personal taste.
He could have very easily just focused his speech on the criminal behaviors of others.
10 posted on 11/29/2014 11:07:11 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: dragnet2
Generally, people say first what matters most.

He phrased it with the firearms described in some detail before bringing up criminals. That tends to indicate he sees the firearms as the problem before the criminals, and if you read enough statements by anti-gunners, they parse things the same way.

YMMV

11 posted on 11/29/2014 11:11:13 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: mouse1
Are you an anarchist?
12 posted on 11/29/2014 11:14:02 AM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: celmak

It would be interesting to know if the quality of firearms used in homicide are increasing over those used, say, 20 years ago, when the homicide rate was much higher.
This could go either way I think.


13 posted on 11/29/2014 11:14:26 AM PST by buwaya
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To: Smokin' Joe
"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.”

Did your teachers in school complain about you not paying attention?
Or are you just selective in what you hear or read?

I just copied and pasted what you posted, and it's clear to me what he said.

His point is, seldom are single shots fired by these indiscriminate thugs. They are spraying an area with bullets and many innocent bystanders are hit.

14 posted on 11/29/2014 11:19:12 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Smokin' Joe

You’re right. He was nailing it and then he lost the plot.


15 posted on 11/29/2014 11:19:27 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: donna

NO not anarchist. I don’t want anyone to think Chief Flynn is a good guy. Chief Flynn has never been good for Milwaukee. He fired the officer who shot the mentally unstable man in Red Arrow Park, after the man grabbed the officers nightstick and beat the officer. His officers don’t like him either. Read up on Chief Flynn. As far as the 5 year old girl who was shot on her grandpa’s lap, that was obvious retaliation. Drug shooting?? Two suspects walked up to the home and opened fire. Doesn’t sound like a random shooting to me.


16 posted on 11/29/2014 11:21:16 AM PST by mouse1 (Cruz/Palin 2016)
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To: celmak

Flynn is a premier gun-grabber. He even testified in DC about some of the gun-control legislation.

He just had a moment of honesty here but relapsed immediately to politically correct law enforcement.


17 posted on 11/29/2014 11:22:19 AM PST by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: dragnet2
I did not hear him say he was against the law abiding citizens who have FA’s. That would be a whole different issue if that's his position.
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I believe he was just stating a reality - high powered firearms in the hands of outlaws make them even more dangerous. We can agree there needs to be ways to keep these guns out of the hands of outlaws. He was talking about outlaws, not law abiding citizens. What needs to be done is a hard, fixed, mandatory punishment for crimes committed with a firearm. Unfortunately, the courts today twist the Constitution to invalidate mandatory minimums.
18 posted on 11/29/2014 11:23:36 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Smokin' Joe

Ya better watch the video again there Joe...

Regarding the question leading up to it, he was first told ya about 80 percent of the homicides and all other crimes are committed by African Americans...


19 posted on 11/29/2014 11:30:06 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: iontheball
He was talking about and focusing on the massive crime in the black communities while the black community ignored that while focusing on the few cop shooting blacks incidents.

Lets keep what he was saying in context here.

20 posted on 11/29/2014 11:33:49 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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