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irisblue

(34,265 posts)
Tue Jul 16, 2024, 06:47 PM Jul 2024

7:45 pm update on CPD who shot & killed a man in Milwaukee 1 mile away from the RNC today

Source-https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2024/07/16/columbus-police-officer-involved-in-shooting-in-milwaukee-ohio-republican-national-convention-rnc/74428246007/

Title-FOP: 5 Columbus officers who killed man waving knife in Milwaukee near RNC being sent home

[It went from 1 officer to 5?]

snip-"Five Columbus police officers who hours earlier shot and killed a homeless man brandishing a knife in Milwaukee while working as part of the city's security efforts surrounding the Republican National Convention are being sent back to Columbus, the president of the police union said Tuesday evening.

Brian Steel, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge No. 9, said a man was waving knives at other people and/or police when Columbus officers shot the individual, whom residents say had been homeless and living in a tent."


snip-"Columbus police are bringing the five officers involved back home, but the other 35 officers the city sent are remaining in Milwaukee, Steel said at the press conference at the Whitehall Police Department."


snip-"Tuesday's shooting in Milwaukee marks the eighth time this year that Columbus police have shot someone.Tuesday's shooting in Milwaukee marks the eighth time this year that Columbus police have shot someone."


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7:45 pm update on CPD who shot & killed a man in Milwaukee 1 mile away from the RNC today (Original Post) irisblue Jul 2024 OP
No tasers? 5 cops? Who the fuck were those assholes. Klarkashton Jul 2024 #1

Klarkashton

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1. No tasers? 5 cops? Who the fuck were those assholes.
Tue Jul 16, 2024, 06:53 PM
Jul 2024

Talk about judge jury and executioner rolled into one.

Send them home for after school detention. JFC

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