{"id":1305,"date":"2023-03-16T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2023-03-16T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:56:51","slug":"exclusive-janet-protasiewicz-used-the-n-word-referring-to-blacks-in-childrens-court-cases-witness-says-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Janet Protasiewicz Used the \u2018N Word\u2019 Referring to Blacks in Children\u2019s Court Cases, Witness Says [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-used-the-n-word-referring-to-blacks-in-childrens-court-cases-witness-says\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-used-the-n-word-referring-to-blacks-in-childrens-court-cases-witness-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Attention media: You may use the audio and video recordings in this article. Please attribute to Wisconsin Right Now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two people who knew Janet Protasiewicz \u2013 her former stepson AND a long-time self-described liberal family friend of her ex-husband \u2013 told Wisconsin Right Now in recorded interviews that they heard Protasiewicz use racial slurs when she was a prosecutor in Children\u2019s Court. Both men, Jonathan Ehr and Michael Madden, told Wisconsin Right Now that they personally heard Protasiewicz use the \u201cN word\u201d to refer to blacks.<\/p>\n<p>Madden, Protasiewicz\u2019s then stepson, said in a videotaped interview that she used the \u201cN word\u201d to refer to blacks <strong>who were involved in court cases while she served as a prosecutor in Milwaukee County Children\u2019s Court<\/strong>, including the parents of black children and blacks accused of crimes.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Protasiewicz\u2019s campaign for comment at 10 p.m. on March 15. She has not responded. She has not denied using racial slurs despite being given an opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to and watch the recordings later in this story. Both men said they heard Protasiewicz use the racial slurs in 1997, when she was married to conservative Milwaukee County Judge Patrick Madden. She was 34 years old at the time and an assistant Milwaukee County District Attorney. Michael is Patrick\u2019s son. Ehr and his attorney father knew the judge and his family for decades.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate audio recorded interview without Michael Madden present, Ehr, a former Milwaukee restaurant\/bar owner and self-described \u201cliberal,\u201d told Wisconsin Right Now that Protasiewicz used the \u201cN word\u2019 in front of him to refer to blacks and also used a racial slur to refer to Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was the \u201cN word\u201d and then I thought she said, I could have sworn she said, beaner, or something, beaner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-used-the-n-word-referring-to-blacks-in-childrens-court-cases-witness-says\/ Attention media: You may use the audio and video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}