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The Fire and Police Commission (FPC) held a regular session on October 2, 2026, at 6:26 PM at the Milwaukee Fire and Police Safety Academy. The meeting featured extensive public comment criticizing Police Chief Jeffrey Norman's 2025 trip to Israel, MPD accountability, and the city's surveillance infrastructure. The Commission voted unanimously (8-0) on several personnel actions including lateral transfer announcements, probation extensions, and promotions across the police and fire departments. The meeting adjourned at 8:39 PM.
Director, please proceed with the uh agenda. We will begin with item number one public comment. For those who would like you in person, please come up into the front table where your name is called. If you are hearing virtually, please use the raise my hand feature and the webinar tools and unmute yourself and call on speech. I think with people who are here in person. The first is Jody Summons. Right there. Well, we should tell them that the mic for those who want to be on. Um just in your face, it's fine. Just speak loud. Yeah, yes, yeah, it's a clear. You'll find that speaking. I've lived in many places throughout my life. This is the only city where I was treated like a criminal by Milwaukee PD. A man with paler skin over a huge rat sheet was treated more vocal than I was. A black man with only two skin pictures on his record. I was chastised more for reacting filterily to a man who was me, threatening my life over a misunderstanding and just entitlement. It was unknown to me at the time, but he shot his gun into the air because of a letter I wrote to him. I do admit I could have handled it a different way, but I reached my breaking point. I knew he would not leave me alone, so I felt like I had to confront him. I didn't expect to be, I didn't expect him to be arrested, nor did I want him to. I ran out of options. The police still took his side despite me calling them. They had already made up their minds about me because they're just like them. One of the officers would purposely act like toots and would misinterpret my complaint. I cannot tell my full story. I claimed I blocked them, I avoided him, then he gave me the creeps. I was told I shouldn't live in the building with different people. I had video evidence that I was minding my business, walk into my car, disputing the lives of my harasser and the so-called witnesses with zero context of what was really happening. It was their word against mine to cite me calling the police. This man explained to me to them next time that he would use his name affiliation, the more cycle outlaw group. Under the clinic tree of justice. Didn't see anything wrong with that, nor did it FPC. This man has a documented history going back 20 years, battery convictions, a felony gun battery charge, multiple domestic abuse cases. He had multiple negative interactions with people in my previous building. He battered a previous tenant with the bat. He coined a gun at a previous tenant at both times to police administered. When officers won't investigate or make a report or even take threats seriously, the burden is shipped onto the victim. In Milwaukee, the citizens are assigned to be their own detector because they know Milwaukee won't or can't do anything if they even bother showing up. Where are the citizens' tax dollars on? I filed a complaint with the fire and police commission. The commission still didn't find anything wrong how that encounter was handled. My complaint was non-sustained, according to a colonel affairs.