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Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn announces the firing of the officer who fatally shot a mentally ill man during a press conference last month.

(Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

Former Springfield Police Chief Edward Flynn got some unintended press Wednesday after an impassioned video went viral on YouTube.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel posted a three-minute clip of Flynn responding to police protesters in Milwaukee, who turned out to a Fire and Police Commission meeting to slam the department over the shooting of a mentally ill man last month

The Inquisitr.com website reported that the man, Dontre Hamilton, 31, suffered from schizophrenia but was non-violent, according to family members. When officer Christopher Manney approached Hamilton, he reportedly violated protocols that escalated the confrontation, and he ended up shooting Hamilton 14 times, killing him.

When reporters confronted Flynn about the cellphone incident after the meeting, the chief explained what he was dealing with another shooting, and then started complaining about the "greatest racial disparity in the city of Milwaukee," according to another website, TheBlaze.com.

Flynn noted that each year in Milwaukee, 80 percent of homicide victims, 85 percent of aggravated assault victims and 80 percent of shooting victims who survive shootings are African-American.

He then told the reporters he was going directly from the meeting to the crime scene where there was a dead 5-year-old child and that he takes these types of crimes personally.

Flynn served as the Springfield police commissioner from 2006 to 2007, before leaving for Wisconsin in the middle of a five-year contract. Prior to that, he served as the secretary to the state office of public safety, as appointed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney.