Demand the Firing of the Kenosha Police Chief

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Dear Kenosha Police & Fire Commission,

The ACLU and Black Lives Matter Activists in Kenosha have called for the resignation of Police Chief Miskinis. The Kenosha Police and Fire Commission has the power to remove him. Email your testimony to this committee now.

Cheif Miskinis leads the Kenosha police department, which clearly needs to undergo a culture shift. Chief Miskinis and his department have met protests against police violence with more police violence, blaming demonstrators for being murdered because they were out after curfew. His actions uphold and defend white supremacy, while demonizing people who were murdered for exercising their First Amendment rights and speaking out against discriminatory systems.

The illegal curfew was enforced in a discriminatory and arbitrary manner and it appears that the vast majority of citations, if not all, were issued to people advocating for racial justice or protesting police bias and brutality.

All of these events are part of a pattern of discriminatory policing that has long existed in Kenosha and around the country – the ACLU has reported separately that Black people in Kenosha are 6.9x more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana possession. We know that Black and white people use the drug at the same rate, so this shows that police are enforcing the law differently against different communities.

It is time to end unequal policing in our community.

Sincerely,

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