Cavalier Johnson: “If we didn't do that, then roughly half of the Milwaukee…”

“We would have basically been the next Detroit if that. If that had happened. And there are severe consequences that would have followed from that if we did not take that action. If we didn't do that, then roughly half of the Milwaukee Police Department would have been gone. Roughly a quarter of the Milwaukee Fire Department would have vanished. They would have had to go. Hundreds and hundreds of city employees.” (21:24–21:30)

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