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Michelle Bryant: “Back in 2025, the city of Milwaukee had to pay out $7…”

Featuring: Michelle Bryant, Democratic | Former Candidate, Wisconsin State Senate District 6

SAY SOMETHING REAL WITH MICHELLE BRYANT

Published February 9, 2026 | Video Starts at 1:16:32

I haven't had time to really talk about it. But let me, let me take a second. Since Mark Thompson came in and opened this little can of worms Back in 2025, the city of Milwaukee had to pay out $7 million for a wrongful conviction. Okay, so there's a guy, his name is Danny Wilbur, 44 years old. He is Afro indigenous. So he's part black, part Native American or indigenous. (1:16:32–1:16:41)

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Asserts that Milwaukee paid $7 million for a wrongful conviction in 2025.

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“Milwaukee Police recorded 2285 use of force incidents in 2023, 952 involving physical force and weapons, marking a high for the department.”
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“850 civilian misconduct complaints were filed from 2016 to 2021, with 14% ruled in favor of civilians.”
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“Over 100 officers appeared on what they called a Brady list for credibility issues.”
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“The fund that's set up for people that have been wrongly incarcerated, we have capped it in Wisconsin at $5,000 per year up to five years.”
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“Everything [Kid Rock] was doing in South Carolina... got canceled.”
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“For the last 10 years, there's been a super hard push [for diversity at the Super Bowl].”
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“Artists have been dropping off [Kid Rock's] tour.”
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“This is a game where 70% of the players is black.”
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“We just saw like 10 head coaching jobs get filled. No brothers.”
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“These owners... have boxed out black folks from being at the ownership table.”
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“Their alignment with Donald Trump.”
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“Netflix would do this because you're in the business of making money.”
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“Jeff Bezos is getting ready to play these silly games with Donald Trump.”
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“The language that they say, move it to federal court where a more favorable jury pool exists.”
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“Keyshawn Thomas, who had been arrested, 21 years old, arrested on the morning of February 23, 2022.”
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“Police took him to the District 5 Police Department, and they said that he told police during booking that he had ingested cocaine…”
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“The police officer said he'd call an ambulance, but never did. Instead, he placed Kean Thomas in a cell.”
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“The MPA says Mr. Taylor was detained for a mere 20 minutes.”
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“At least 93 officers were disciplined for violating laws, representing roughly 5% of the force.”
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“A 2025 report indicated nearly half of 191 Officer Brady lists in the country, which includes many MP Milwaukee MPD officers, involved…”
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“The demographic makeup of the Milwaukee Police Department in 2023 [is] predominantly white, 68.6%, 13% black, 9%, almost 10% [identify as]…”
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“The MPA is going to be supporting Tom Tiffany in the upcoming gubernatorial election.”
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“A federal judge granted his petition for habeas corpus and he was released from prison on Dec. 22, 2021, pending the state's appeal, with…”
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“His claim for wrongful conviction was denied by the Wisconsin claims board in July 2024.”
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“His federal civil rights claim was settled by the Milwaukee common council on May 13, 2025 for $7 million, the second largest in Milwaukee's…”
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“The Milwaukee Police Department knew Danny Wilbur was innocent and they framed him anyway.”
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“The Wisconsin Attorney General's office had physical evidence proving his innocence and still spent years fighting to keep him in a cage.”
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“The City of Milwaukee's Judiciary Legislation Committee recommended approving that he get a settlement of $6,960,000, plus attorneys fees.”
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“The police knew he had a turkey when they put him in the back of that squad car.”
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“All these damn black people on the common council. And you say nothing because your job is always, it seems like, lining up to defend the…”
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“When they didn't make the case when the man was arrested and people all was complicit in framing that man, if they thought they had a real…”
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“You know how many black men have been wrongfully arrested, incarcerated in some Cases put to death on death row because of white officers…”
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“The number of black people that ain't never been paid have never been treated fairly in this system.”
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“Tony Evers used his veto pen to veto legislation that Republicans had tried to push through that dealt with school funding increases.”
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“Tony Evers did not just wake up and decide to create something that will give school funding increases for 400 years.”
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“Energy was nowhere to be found when Scott Walker and the Republicans cut millions of dollars from public education.”
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“Scott Walker [and] the Republicans [are] cutting millions of dollars from public education.”
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“I'm referencing the seven million dollar payout to the brother who said that he had been wrongfully convicted and absolutely set up.”
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“Had the Milwaukee Police Department not framed him in the first place, we wouldn't be here.”
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“He spent 18 years in prison. And y'all know the Milwaukee police officers framed him.”
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“You have to settle for something based on the misbehavior of the Milwaukee Police Department that led that put that whole thing in motion.”
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“We knew something was done improperly and it was done at the hands of the Milwaukee Police Department.”
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“It's a partnership. So we can't be partners when they bring in the cases for us and not want to be partners when they make a mistake.”
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