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Woman says MPD officer told her Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization
https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/14/woman-says-mpd-officer-told-her-black-lives-matter-is-a-terrorist-organization/Four months after Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck, suffocating him on the pavement outside Cup Foods, Jacqueline Bilek called the Minneapolis Police Department about a man who was putting fliers on windshields condemning Black Lives Matter.
Bilek called the 5th precinct police station to see if the man was dangerous, because she’d heard he was having mental health problems.
Sgt. Scot Kaiser answered the phone. After hearing her story, Kaiser launched into his own diatribe about the activist group, Bilek said, calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist group that “we will wipe off the face of the Earth.”
“Excuse me?” Bilek replied.
He repeated himself.
She said she didn’t think that was appropriate and asked to speak to his supervisor.
He laughed, she said, and refused to transfer her or take down her contact information.
“And then with all due arrogance, he goes, ‘You know what? I’ve got the feeling you are going to file a complaint, and so let me spell my last name so you get it correctly and give you my badge number, so nothing’s wrong,’” Bilek said.
She called back later, but Kaiser answered again and wouldn’t transfer the call, she said.
Bilek was stunned; he was brazenly threatening a good portion of the people he serves as a police officer.
“He’s an arrogant son of a bitch — pardon my language. I’m 72 and usually very low-key,” Bilek said. “He knew he wasn’t going to be held accountable, and he thought it was funny. It was just a game.”
So she did file a complaint, and ended up talking to inspector Amelia Huffman, who was a deputy chief in charge of internal affairs at the time. Huffman later was named interim police chief, in February 2021.
Bilek told Huffman what happened, and gave her Kaiser’s name. She started to give his badge number when, according to Bilek, Huffman said, “You don’t have to give me the badge number. We know who this is.”
Bilek called the 5th precinct police station to see if the man was dangerous, because she’d heard he was having mental health problems.
Sgt. Scot Kaiser answered the phone. After hearing her story, Kaiser launched into his own diatribe about the activist group, Bilek said, calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist group that “we will wipe off the face of the Earth.”
“Excuse me?” Bilek replied.
He repeated himself.
She said she didn’t think that was appropriate and asked to speak to his supervisor.
He laughed, she said, and refused to transfer her or take down her contact information.
“And then with all due arrogance, he goes, ‘You know what? I’ve got the feeling you are going to file a complaint, and so let me spell my last name so you get it correctly and give you my badge number, so nothing’s wrong,’” Bilek said.
She called back later, but Kaiser answered again and wouldn’t transfer the call, she said.
Bilek was stunned; he was brazenly threatening a good portion of the people he serves as a police officer.
“He’s an arrogant son of a bitch — pardon my language. I’m 72 and usually very low-key,” Bilek said. “He knew he wasn’t going to be held accountable, and he thought it was funny. It was just a game.”
So she did file a complaint, and ended up talking to inspector Amelia Huffman, who was a deputy chief in charge of internal affairs at the time. Huffman later was named interim police chief, in February 2021.
Bilek told Huffman what happened, and gave her Kaiser’s name. She started to give his badge number when, according to Bilek, Huffman said, “You don’t have to give me the badge number. We know who this is.”
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