WAUWATOSA, Wisc. The Wauwatosa Peace Officers Association (WPOA) continues to recover from seemingly never-ending insults and distractions from Mayor Dennis McBride. A few weeks ago, Mayor McBride said that the WPOA, the local police union "was a problem" and that one of its members was “drinking
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Last week the Wauwatosa police union demanded an apology from the mayor after he made the shocking comments on a local radio program. “The police union is a problem, they feel all of the elected officials in Wauwatosa weren’t sufficiently supportive of the police in 2020,” said Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride during an interview broadcast on 620 WTMJ.
Making matters worse, a Facebook Live video surfaced the week after showing the mayor becoming visibly agitated. When confronted at a community event a week ago, McBride told her to “go to hell” and called her and the rest of America “racist.”
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Wauwatosa, Wis. It seems big cities like Chicago are not the only places with racist mayors. A Facebook Live video from Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee, shows Mayor Dennis McBride telling a citizen to “go to hell” and calling her and the rest of America “racist.” Strangely, Mayor McBride, who is white, told the white citizen that she is “part of the problem.”
In the past week alone, political “leaders” like Mayor Dennis McBride and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have let their obsessions with racial politics distort their leadership and distort the very meaning of “public service.” And even more unbelievable, especially in this era of never-ending demands for police accountability, it seems those demanding accountability desperately need this sobering reminder:
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Wauwatosa, Wisc. The Wauwatosa Peace Officers Association (WPOA) is demanding an apology from Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride. On behalf of the WPOA, board member John Milotzky wrote a letter demanding an explanation and an apology from Mayor McBride for insulting a police officer during a radio interview on WTMJ on May 16.
While Mayor McBride claimed that he and the city council support the police, he clearly stated in the radio interview that “the police union is a problem” and that an (Asian-American) police officer “was listening too much to the police union and drinking too much of their Kool Aid.”
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Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride listens to the protesters, Coleman, and one of the Cole family’s lawyers. Photo by Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin Examiner.
Nearly four months after first learning that the Wauwatosa Police Department (WPD) had labeled its own mayor a “higher value target” (HVT) in a detective’s Powerpoint, an internal investigation conducted by WPD has been released to the Wisconsin Examiner
. However, its conclusion that the Powerpoint’s creator and WPD’s Investigative Division “did not conduct any investigation into Mayor