Police Body Camera Videos Show Milwaukee Mayor’s Mother, Brother at Standoff

Milwaukee Police body camera videos and a search warrant affidavit obtained by Wisconsin Right Now regarding the arrest of Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s brother Allen Addison reveal for the first time that police believed Addison was holed up inside the N. 41st St. home with the mayor’s aunt and uncle during a two-hour standoff. They also show that Milwaukee police believed they had probable cause to search the home for a gun, ammunition, and “personal identifiers of residents of the residence,” but the office of Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm refused to approve the request.

“While police officers and detectives attempted to gain entry to this residence, the occupants are refusing to answer to (sic) door. There is a good chance of recovering evidence as it pertains to this offense upon entry to the residence,” the MPD search warrant affidavit, obtained by WRN through an open records request, reads.

Because the DA’s office wouldn’t sign off on the warrant, the home was not searched after Addison eventually came out following a two-hour standoff with the mayor’s mother screaming periodically on the sidewalk outside. That’s even though harboring a wanted person can be a crime. The search could have helped establish how long Addison was staying at the home, whether the other family members knew he was wanted, whether they were in fact inside the house, and whether there was evidence of the shooting.

The fact that police suspected multiple members of the mayor’s family were with Addison inside the hide-out has not been reported by the media; nor has the existence of the search warrant. An officer says in one body cam video, referring to the mayor’s mother: “Her brother is in the lower with her son. Her sister is in the upper, and none of them are answering their phones.” The home had a “Cavalier Johnson” for mayor sign planted prominently in its front yard.

The Milwaukee Police body camera videos, also obtained by Wisconsin Right Now through an open records request, capture the mayor’s mother, Denise Hardwick-Townsend, repeatedly refusing officers’ orders at the scene and using the F word. She repeatedly makes telephone calls in the videos. Although it’s not clear to whom, officers do make it clear that she had been trying to call the people inside the residence, but they weren’t answering.

“You’re going to shoot my f*cking son,” she tells an officer on video.

“No, that’s not going to happen,” he says, asking which car is hers. “You always say that sh*t,” she responds.

However, the videos show that Milwaukee police officers handled the entire situation with great professionalism and restraint, giving Addison instructions on how to remain safe when he came out of the house and even trying to make sure his handcuffs were not too tight.

At one point, an officer tells the mother of Milwaukee’s mayor, who is a close political ally to the DA and police chief, “It might have taken them awhile to find your number. It’s not like we just have it, you know.”

That’s when Hardwick-Townsend says, “I mean, we just had an incident last night where I had to go to my other son’s house and defuse an incident, so I believe that’s why they called me now.” She didn’t name him. Social media posts show Hardwick-Townsend has two other sons in addition to Johnson and Addison, who are half brothers with the same mom.

The two-hour standoff, which started with officers knocking in vain and escalated to a SWAT team with a loudspeaker, occurred several days before the mayoral election, which Johnson, already Acting Mayor, won. Johnson’s spokesman previously told Wisconsin Right Now that Johnson was unaware that his brother had been wanted for two months for a shooting. He also said Johnson was not aware until the next day that his brother was arrested or that the standoff had occurred, finding out through a social media post they would not identify.

In other words, the mayor wants you to believe that he was entirely unaware of the scene unfolding in the videos until the next day even though police believed his mother, brother, aunt, uncle, and a relative who showed up with a key, were there. Other than WRN and talk radio, the media have shown pretty much zero interest in checking that rhetoric.

“The mayor had no knowledge of the shooting, the warrant, or the arrest before a social media post on Wednesday,” Johnson’s spokesman, Jeff Fleming, told Wisconsin Right Now, not answering a question that queried about which one. The standoff was on Tuesday.
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