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Willie E. Burton (born February, 1979) is an American politician from Michigan. He is a member of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, to which he was first elected in 2013. Burton achieved international notoriety after being publicly arrested after speaking out at a meeting where facial recognition policy was a central topic.

Burton has begun his third term in 2022 after previously being elected in Detroit's 2013 & 2017 municipal elections.

He has received significant international coverage after being arrested at a meeting on July 11 2019, and has been an outspoken opponent of facial recognition technology. He has also been consulted by local news organizations as an advocate of "Operation Greenlight," transparency, gun-locks, and the Michigan open meetings act. He has also been critical of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners handling of the beating of an emergency room patient by Corporal Dewayne Jones.

Detroit Board of Police Commissioners
In 2013, Burton was elected to the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners.