Out-of-town police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources say

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Out-of-town police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources say

John Diedrich
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Published 2:09 p.m. CT July 16, 2024 * Updated 2:28 p.m. CT July 16, 2024'

An out-of-town police officer shot and killed an individual early Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee, said two Milwaukee law enforcement sources.

Brian Steel, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Capitol City Lodge No. 9, confirmed that Columbus police were involved in a shooting in Milwaukee.

The shooting occurred near North 14th and West Vliet Streets outside of the security perimeter for the Republican National Convention, said Milwaukee law enforcement sources, who asked not to be named publicly because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.

The Journal Sentinel has reporters at the scene.

This a developing story. Check back for updates.

Read more: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2024/07/16/police-shooting-in-milwaukee-kills-1-outside-rnc-security-zone/74428028007/

[Think. Again.]

1. Those republicans are just shooting everybody now, aren't they.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. When your only tool is a gun, everything looks like a target.

Cap and trade bill? Bang. Case of Bud Light? Bang.

[captain queeg]

2. If you use Musk's logic this was another asassination attempt on Trump.

He was only 20 minutes away.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "The man who was killed was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel"

update at OP source.

Always worrying when an armed outsider comes to town and kills a local.

[mackdaddy]

5. So the Cop involved in the shooting was from Columbus, OHIO?

How does that work? Who was he working for there?

[Botany]

8. Some Columbus Cops are very right wing

I know I live here. I have met, seen, and got to know some who are wonderful people
but a lot of them are right wingers and racist even some of the black cops are racist too. With
that being said I hope we get to see the whole story about what really happened. However
some Columbus Cops are not slow to pull a trigger and some of them cost the city lots of
money when they arrested Stormy Daniels on bogus charges. Stormy made lots of money
on that arrest including 3 or 4 sold out shows and she got a big check from the city too.

Oh no the man was homeless.

[sl8]

9. Police from around the country were brought in.

https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-shooting-police-near-rnc/61614074

"Police from 63 departments in 24 states and Washington, D.C., along with 44 Wisconsin agencies are in Milwaukee this week for the Republican National Convention."

[EarthFirst]

6. Article does not state if the out of town LEO was accompanied by a local LEO as per the contract service agreement...

Also does not state if there is a provision for body worn cameras for LEO’s under contract service.

[IronLionZion]

7. I wouldn't want to be in the vicinity of a GOP convention or rally for any reason

too many trigger happy people looking for an excuse to shoot someone.

[larwdem]

10. yes

and that's just the cops

[Simeon Salus]

11. Because that's a thing which happens every day.

Out-of-town police officers kill random homeless folks with no legal consequences. IOKIYAR

[moniss]

12. For people unfamiliar with Milwaukee

if you are almost a mile away from the "zone" then that is a quite a distance of many city blocks. Klanfest is in a building of a couple blocks size. As you move west from Klanfest you are talking about some downtown businesses and then the major interstate I-43. On the west side of I-43, once you have breathed a sigh of relief to be away from the stench of Klanfest, it goes into a mix of old inner city housing/renewal buildings/small businesses and services. I have no idea what these Ohio cops were doing that far away on bicycles to boot. Why on earth is the zone for those cops out that far away from the security zone? The security zone perimeter itself is already several blocks out around Klanfest in all directions.

Disputes at homeless encampment/services areas happen all the time given the various problems that people have. De-escalation is apparently meant in Ohio to be a yelled command to do something and if you don't get immediate compliance then everybody empties their weapon. But as we know the fact that someone has been shot and killed will please to no end the folks at Klanfest and be one of the things they mark down as making their national "gathering" of the Klaverns a success.

[moniss]

13. He wasn't just

"outside" their perimeter. He was nearly a mile away from the perimeter and had nothing to do with Klanfest. That's BS writing because it leads the reader who just glances at the article the idea the guy was by the perimeter but not to it yet. BS writers on the JS staff anymore. If an editor made the writer phrase it this way the writer should have demanded their byline be taken off the story.

[Vinca]

14. Sounds like an excuse for open season on innocent people.

[sl8]

15. Bodycam footage:

0:45 min.

Watch police bodycam of Columbus officer shooting, killing armed man in Milwaukee near RNC

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jul 16 2024

Five Columbus, Ohio-based police officers shot and killed an armed man just under a mile from the security perimeter for the Republican National Convention.

Body camera and still frames released late Tuesday by Columbus police show the man was still armed with the knives, and lunging toward another man, at the time of the shooting.

Story here: https://bit.ly/3LpHuy2

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[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Important footage - the dead man had started running towards an unarmed man

(a civilian, not a police officer), and was very close (a couple of steps - "lunging" or "running", depending on your point of view), and you can see, in the stills at the end of the footage, that he had a knife in each hand. They had shouted "drop the knife". This does look like proper police actions.