Chris Rickert:

The chair of Madison’s Police Civilian Oversight Board tried to prevent police from arresting a family member, demanding of an officer, “Do you know who I am?” and telling him she would call two of his superiors to complain, according to a complaint filed this summer by the vice president of the city’s police union.

Oversight Board Chair Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores showed up at the scene of an Oct. 20 disturbance involving the family member, identified in court records as her 26-year-old daughter, “and attempted to use her position to influence and change the outcome of the police investigation to her own desired resolution,” according to the complaint, which was sworn to by Madison Professional Police Officers’ Association Vice President Emily Samson on July 26 and submitted to the city’s Ethics Board.