Chief Norman's Israel trip

Called the chief's Israel police training trip a serious lapse in judgment that damaged community trust, cited the Gaza death toll, and asked the commission to remove the chief.

A Palestinian-American engineer who read from the chief's trip itinerary, highlighting visits to a surveillance control center and a West Bank facility, and said he doesn't feel comfortable with the chief learning surveillance tactics from 'the architects of genocide.'

Longtime activist who praised the community's work on SOP 575, criticized out-of-town officers in the Sam Sharpe Jr. killing, opposed facial recognition, and called the chief's Israel trip inexcusable.

A semi-retired attorney who cited military and academic critics of Israel and said the chief's training aspirations would bring IDF-style surveillance and brutality to Milwaukee; said he should be removed.

Asked why the chief went to Israel and said he never answered the public; said the trip disqualifies him and that he ignored public sentiment on surveillance technology.

Said residents uncovered the chief's hidden trip, reviewed his itinerary, said nothing on it humanized Palestinians, and demanded a permanent facial recognition ban, an end to license plate readers, an ethics investigation into Lockheed Martin gifts, and the chief's firing.

Said the commission already has all the information it needs, called the chief's Israel training comparable to being trained by war criminals, and urged commissioners to act bravely with the facts before them.