{"id":1329,"date":"2023-03-17T04:36:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T05:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2023-03-17T06:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T06:01:42","slug":"milwaukee-naacp-wants-chisholms-response-on-janet-protasiewicz-racial-slur-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee NAACP Wants Chisholm\u2019s Response on Janet Protasiewicz Racial Slur Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-racial-slur-allegation\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The president of the Milwaukee Chapter of the NAACP said on Thursday that he wants to see Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm\u2019s response on whether he will launch an investigation into allegations <\/a>that Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz used racial slurs, including the \u201cN word\u201d to refer to blacks involved in Children\u2019s Court cases when she was an assistant district attorney in Chisholm\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Protasiewicz has refused to deny the allegations despite being given more than a day to do so.<\/p>\n

We told Clarence P. Nicholas, president of the NAACP-Milwaukee, that Wisconsin Right Now had asked Chisholm whether he will launch a review into Protasiewicz\u2019s cases as a Children\u2019s Court prosecutor to determine whether any of the cases were affected by racial animus or bias.<\/p>\n

In addition to termination of parental rights cases, Protasiewicz handled cases of children in need of protective services and those accused of juvenile delinquency for crimes, her judicial application states.<\/p>\n

Nicholas told Wisconsin Right Now in an email, \u201cI would like to see DA John Chisholm\u2019s response?\u201d<\/strong> He copied Protasiewicz\u2019s campaign on the email.<\/p>\n

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So far Chisholm has not responded. We have also asked new Milwaukee County Chief Judge Carl Ashley whether he will seek a review of Protasiewicz\u2019s cases as a judge to ensure that racial bias wasn\u2019t involved, but we have not heard back from him, either.<\/p>\n

In a podcast with Wisconsin Right Now on Thursday night, Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney, who is president of the Wisconsin District Attorneys\u2019 Association, said that he would review a prosecutor\u2019s cases and investigate the allegations if someone accused a prosecutor in his office of using racial slurs. He also said he hoped that Chisholm would do so.<\/p>\n

Toney stressed that he was making the comments as himself only and not on behalf of the WDAA because he couldn\u2019t speak for the board.<\/p>\n

Nicholas added, \u201cThe slurs are said to be\u00a0an \u2018accusation\u2019 and should be treated as such\u00a0unless the person it was pointed to comes forward and says it indeed happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, two people have<\/em> come forward and alleged they heard Protasiewicz use the \u201cN word.\u201d They are her former stepson, Michael Madden, and Jon Ehr, a former Milwaukee business owner and self-described liberal who was friends with Protasiewicz\u2019s ex-husband, Judge Patrick Madden, for decades. Protasiewicz won\u2019t comment.<\/p>\n

The NAACP appears to be saying that it won\u2019t take an accusation that someone used the \u201cN word\u201d seriously unless the accused person admits to it.<\/p>\n

After saying he hopes to see Chisholm\u2019s response, Nicholas added, \u201cWe have a number of cases that are affecting individuals at present that weigh far more than an \u2018accusation,\u2019 we hope that he will respond to immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholas said the racial slur accusation is \u201cby someone unknown to me.\u201d As a result, he said, the accusation is \u201ca little much to comprehend, let alone respond in an intelligent manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThis video is worst (sic) than the \u2018accusation\u2019 because the person doesn\u2019t appear to be sure of what took place.\u201d However, the only video in the Wisconsin Right Now story on the racial slurs is of Protasiewicz\u2019s former stepson, Michael Madden, who told Wisconsin Right Now that he is sure that he heard Protasiewicz refer to blacks as the \u201cN word\u201d while she was a prosecutor in Milwaukee County Children\u2019s Court in 1997. He says she made the comments while discussing issues around the kitchen table, referring to blacks involved in court cases, including black parents.<\/p>\n

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