COC BureauMilwaukee Alderman's DUI Stop Still Frame Surfaces Online After Department 'Lost' Body Cam Footage Twice
A leaked still frame and accompanying video appeared on a new website with no registered owner. It shows exactly what two officers said didn't happen.
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Still frame from the leaked body camera footage. Timestamp: 02:14 AM, January 28, 2026. Full video available on Whisper Leaks.
Source: Anonymous upload / Enhanced by The Dead Drop
Body camera footage that Milwaukee Police Department claimed was "corrupted beyond recovery" on two separate occasions has appeared in full, unedited, on an anonymous website — and it shows exactly what Alderman Thomas Brennan and two MPD officers said did not happen.
The video clip, hosted at a bare-bones website registered through privacy-protected channels, shows the following:
At 1:47 AM on November 14, 2025, Officers David Park and Rebecca Sloane pulled over a black BMW 5 Series traveling eastbound on Wisconsin Avenue at an estimated 58 mph in a 35 zone. The driver was Alderman Thomas Brennan.
The footage — crystal clear, with audio — shows Brennan slurring his words, unable to locate his license, and at one point leaning on the vehicle for balance. Officer Park can be heard saying, "Sir, have you been drinking tonight?" Brennan responds: "Do you know who I am? Call your sergeant."
What follows is a 12-minute sequence in which Park steps away to make a phone call. When he returns, his demeanor has entirely changed. "Mr. Brennan, we're going to let you get home safe tonight. Can we call you a car?"
No field sobriety test was administered. No breathalyzer. No citation.
The footage concludes with Brennan driving away in his own vehicle.
Milwaukee PD responded to a public records request for this footage in December 2025 with a letter stating the body camera files from that date were "corrupted during a routine system migration." A second request in January received an identical response.
The anonymous website — now archived at multiple locations after the original was taken down within 12 hours — contained only the video file and a single line of text: "What was lost has been found. What was hidden will be shown."
Alderman Brennan's office did not respond to requests for comment. Officers Park and Sloane have been placed on administrative leave pending an internal review. Milwaukee Police Chief Sandra Wells issued a statement calling the video's appearance "deeply concerning" and pledging a "thorough investigation into both the traffic stop and the footage's chain of custody."
The website's source code, examined by The Dead Drop's technical team, contained a hidden comment in the HTML: a string of numbers that, when decoded from hexadecimal, reads: "THE FOURTH AMENDMENT DOES NOT HAVE A VIP EXCEPTION."
Digital forensics experts consulted by The Dead Drop say the footage shows no signs of manipulation or editing. The metadata is consistent with Milwaukee PD's body camera systems.
No group has claimed responsibility for publishing the footage. But the methodology — the precision, the patience, the message — is becoming familiar.
