milwaukee
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Milwaukee Cop Who Fatally Shot Sylville Smith Is Now Facing Charges of Sexual Assault
The Milwaukee police officer who shot and killed Sylville Smith is now being accused of sexually assaulting a man in an incident that occurred just two days after the fatal shooting, CNN reports. According to a criminal complaint, Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown was watching TV coverage of the turbulent protests that followed Smith’s Aug. 13 death at a…
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Milwaukee Police Chief Won't Release Video of Sylville Smith's Fatal Shooting
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn announced Thursday that he will not release the video of the fatal police shooting of Sylville Smith, giving a nod to the advice of the state’s attorney general and local district attorney, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the state Department of Justice has completed its investigation into the…
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Bucks President: Milwaukee ‘Is the Most Segregated, Racist Place I’ve Ever Experienced in My Life’
Milwaukee Bucks President Peter Feigin believes that he was just stating some “hard truths” when he said that Milwaukee “is the most segregated, racist place I’ve ever experienced in my life,” Feigin told the audience gathered at the Madison Rotary in Madison, Wis., the Wisconsin State Journal reports. He added that his hope was to…
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Wis. Inmate's Death by Dehydration Ruled a Homicide
The death of Terrill Thomas, a mentally ill black man who died of dehydration after begging for drinking water while being held in a Milwaukee jail, has been ruled a homicide, a county medical examiner revealed Thursday, Reuters reports. Thomas was found dead April 24, nine days after he was arrested as a suspect in…
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2 Body Cameras Captured Footage of Sylville Smith Shooting Death, Attorney General Says
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says that two body cameras captured the fatal police shooting of Sylville Smith in Milwaukee, CBS News reports. According to the report, the vantage points of the two videos are similar. Smith was shot to death Aug. 13 by an officer after fleeing a traffic stop. Authorities say that footage…
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Milwaukee Officer Who Fatally Shot Sylville Smith Knew Him From High School, Family Says
Sylville Smith, the 23-year-old man who was gunned down by a Milwaukee police officer over the weekend, and the officer who fatally shot him knew each other from high school, Smith’s family says, according to CNN. “The officer knew him personally from high school, and he still shot him,” Sherelle Smith, Sylville Smith’s sister, told…
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Milwaukee Officer Threatened Online After Fatal Shooting of Sylville Smith
A Milwaukee police officer was the target of online threats from people identifying him as the cop who fatally shot Sylville Smith in an incident that sparked outrage and violence in the city over the weekend, the Chicago Tribune reports. As the report notes, the authorities have yet to identify the officer who killed Smith…
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At Least 2 Injured During 2nd Night of Milwaukee Protests
Shots were fired during a second night of protests in Milwaukee over the police shooting of Sylville K. Smith, a black man who was gunned down, authorities say, as he fled a traffic stop Saturday afternoon, CNN reports. According to the report, during unrest in the early-morning hours of Monday, one person was shot. That…
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Mayhem Erupts as Milwaukee Police Kill Black Man
As yet another African American was shot and killed by police in Milwaukee, protests and fires erupted in the Rust Belt city. According to police, the 23-year-old victim was armed with a semi-automatic handgun and was shot dead after fleeing a traffic stop in the city’s predominantly black north side Saturday afternoon. It is not…
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Milwaukee Man Arrested After Reportedly Drowning 3-Month-Old Son in Pond
Sean A. Flowers Jr. of Milwaukee allegedly drowned his 3-month-old son in a pond. He was taken into custody Saturday after he reportedly held his son underwater until the infant fell unconscious, according to the New York Daily News. Robert Amstadt, who witnessed the incident, said that the “baby cried all the way out into the…