D.A. John T. Chisholm, 60, Announced He Won't Seek Re-election In 2024 For Milwaukee County District Attorney

Chisholm has been a Milwaukee County prosecutor for more than 20 years.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

January 7, 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Friday, John T. Chisholm, 60, the Milwaukee County District Attorney announced that he won't seek re-election in 2024. His current term ends on January 6, 2025. 

Chisholm has been a prosecutor for more than 20 years and he says, it's time to seek new endeavors.

In 1994, Chisholm became an assistant District Attorney for Milwaukee County under former Milwaukee County District Attorney Edward Michael McCann until 1999, and in 2007, Chisholm became the Milwaukee County District Attorney.

The Milwaukee County D.A.'s Office under Chisholm has had a history of charging Milwaukee police officers for felony crimes in the last 17 years compared to his predecessor former Milwaukee County District Attorney McCann.

During former D.A. McCann's 38 years in office, he never charged and prosecuted a Milwaukee police officer for a felony murder until his last term in office in 2006. 

In March 6, 2005, off-duty Milwaukee Police Officer Alfonzo Glover, 35, fatally shot Wilbert Javier Prado, 25, multiple times in the back after an alledged road rage incident in the Southside of Milwaukee. A Milwaukee County jury found Glover justified in murdering Prado who was unarmed. (http://tinyurl.com/2nrcktju)

Prado, an undocumented immigrant was shot at 19 times, including being shot 8 times in the back and legs with a 45 Cal. while being chased through an alley by then off-duty Officer Glover on March 6, 2005. Glover also reloaded and fired the last two shots killing Prado while he layed face down on the ground.

But months later, investigative reporter H. Nelson Goodson, from El Conquistador Newspaper published multiple articles about off-duty Officer Glover murdering Prado in cold blood by shooting him 8 times in the back, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office and Goodson pushed for an independent homicide investigation against Glover, and other local Latino media including members of the Hispanic community also rallied to pressure former Milwaukee County District Attorney McCann to open the investigation, McCann finally did. The independent homicide investigation found evidence that a homicide had occurred and on May 2006 McCann filed a 1st-degree intentional homicide charge and a perjury charge against Glover, despite opposition from the Milwaukee Police Association (MPA).

Glover was booked at the Milwaukee County jail and released on a $25,000 bond. Glover went home and committed suicide the same day he was released on bond. No suicide note was ever found. Glover's girlfriend, a Milwaukee police officer discovered Glover deceased at his Southside home.

The Prado family sued the City of Milwaukee and the Glover estate in federal court and a jury awarded the family $1.85M. (https://casetext.com/case/javier-v-city-of-milwaukee-2)

The City of Milwaukee later settled with the Prado family for an undisclosed amount.

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