MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee jury on Wednesday acquitted a former police officer in the on-duty shooting of a black man last year that ignited riots on the city’s north side. Jurors found that Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who is also black, was not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide when he shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith after a […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The prosecutor who charged a former Milwaukee police officer with first-degree reckless homicide in the killing of a 23-year-old black man told jurors Tuesday the man was defenseless and “looked like a child” when he was fatally shot last year. But an attorney defending Dominique Heaggan-Brown against the charge countered that the […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An officer whose fatal shooting of a black man sparked violence in Milwaukee lost his job Monday, after he had been charged with sexual assault in an unrelated case. Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown was terminated as a result of the department’s internal investigation into the sexual assault charges, according to a statement from […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Latest on violence in Milwaukee following the shooting of a man by police (all times local): 12:00 p.m. Milwaukee’s mayor and police chief say outsiders are fomenting the unrest that has wreaked havoc in a north side neighborhood for two nights since a black man was fatally shot by a black […]
A former Milwaukee, Wisc., police officer will not be charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man he encountered in a park this…
