Thursday, April 9, 2015

Milwaukee Police Chief Says Cops Are "Depressed" And "Fearful"

Chief Ed Flynn wrote an article for TIME in response to the police shooting of Walter Scott.

Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn

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"Our officers are depressed by the current environment today. They're judged by the worst example anywhere in the country. It affects their work. Officers are fearful that every action is going to be judged with the worst possible presumptions. I look at the case in South Carolina, and it's clear that this is a wrongful use of force. Generally speaking, cops in that environment are highly sensitive now to how they will be judged when they think they're trying to do the right thing."

Via time.com

Written in response to the shooting of unarmed black man Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager, Flynn calls the killing in North Charleston, South Carolina, “the clearest example of documented wrongdoing I’ve ever seen. It’s not even a close call.”