District Attorney Chisholm says leader released, wasn't charged, but facts still being gathered.
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Are the cops wearing body cameras? From the video clip it didn’t look like it.
Had an opportunity to connect with Supervisor Ryan Clancy — thanks Urban Milwaukee — and learned that there was/is pending legislation (no idea about the current state) to compel law enforcement units to publish their “use of force” guidelines/rules/whatever, similar, I surmise, to something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_continuum
Clancy’s specific arrest on Sunday at MKE/Shorewood border, this 794 incident, and the tear gas episode by Fiserv Forum (with its attendant hard-to-believe molotov cocktail component) on Monday all have parallels with each other and likely have something at the core that’s similar to what Chisholm is quoted with here (“The decision was made, we are not going to have hundreds of people on the freeways, that’s too dangerous,”) that moves it from a benign “officer presence” to a more serious “hard control/intermediate weapons” state to disperse or control crowds. IOW, there’s a playbook and there’s training for ground forces based on that, and there’s split-second decisions to make, but no one knows what they are, so we all end up surprised and outraged that XYZ happened. Fortunately, we’re getting many camera angles to help tell the more of story.
A system that simultaneously sees many protest-miles logged without any trouble at all alongside some aggressive behavior perplexes all. Determining “who acted first and why — either perceived, real, or anticipatory” gives people tangible things to debate and would, IMO, go a long way towards changing rules and cultures and further defining “that fine balance.” (again quoting Chisholm above)
* Nothing here justifies tackling Frank Nitty from behind, so this hopefully this comment doesn’t get misinterpreted as “boot-licking” as some would say.
follow up comment since one cannot edit, the previously referred to legislation is likely AB1012, discussed in more detail here: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/03/could-floyds-killing-lead-to-state-reform/