GET ME REWRITE: Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney blatantly plays the race card at Wisconsin GOP Attorney General candidates debate

 

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 6/8/2022

Eric Toney welcomes you to the Milwaukee Plantation.

Toney, the Fond du Lac County district attorney, also blamed prosecutors in Milwaukee for ongoing jumps in violent crime, and lobbied for a longtime campaign proposal of his to give the Department of Justice original jurisdiction over violent crime in the state’s largest city. 

Milwaukee County saw 205 homicides last year and 197 homicides in 2020 compared to 106 in 2019, according to Wisconsin Department of Justice data. 

“Violent crime in Milwaukee bleeds across Wisconsin, and we need to be in control of Milwaukee to protect the rest of our state,” Toney remarked.  [emphasis added]