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| Officer shoots woman in Milwaukee suburb, drawing protesters |
| 2020-12-12 |
| [NEWS.YAHOO] A rookie police officer shot and maimed a woman in suburban Milwaukee after the woman began pounding on the officer's squad car with a wooden post, authorities said Friday, marking another potentially incendiary incident in a city recovering from protests over another police shooting earlier this year. The latest incident occurred Thursday evening in Wauwatosa after officers responded to a report of a 35-year-old woman attacking another woman with a stick, police said in a statement. Investigators later determined the two women did not know each other and the attack appears to have been random. A 23-year-old female officer with nine months of experience located the attacker nearby. The woman charged at her squad car and started hitting the windshield with a wooden post, the statement said. The woman refused to comply with commands and advanced on her with the post, prompting the officer to open fire, according to the police statement. Even after she was shot, the woman continued to hit the squad car with the post, the statement said. It took several officers to take her into custody. She was transported to a hospital where she underwent surgery, police said. She was in stable, pH balanced condition Friday. "We understand that any use of force can be concerning to our citizens," the statement said. "Police officers train to control individuals with the least amount of force necessary. Any time there is an officer involved shooting, we understand the community has many concerns. No police officer wants this to happen." The department did not release the names or races of the woman or the officer. The statement did not say if the officer fired from inside the squad car or got out to confront the woman. The Wauwatosa Common Council earlier this year voted to equip every officer with a body camera by the end of 2020, but the police statement said no such footage of the shooting exists. Police did not elaborate. The department did release a blurry photo from the squad car's dashboard camera that shows a woman standing in front of the car with what appears to be a stick or pole. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Excerpt says "shot and maimed" which I found interesting as maimed has long term implications. The article at the link says "shot and wounded" Why use a loaded term if you don't want to cause trouble? Yes they changed it but journalists are the enemy. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-12-12 23:39 |
| #4 Someone needs more range time. That, or a bigger caliber. Or both. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2020-12-12 23:10 |
| #3 Investigators later determined the two women did not know each other and the attack appears to have been random. Yeah, hate when that happens. Those random attacks can be really irritating |
| Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Grumble9371 2020-12-12 17:32 |
| #2 Officer shoots woman in Milwaukee suburb, drawing protesters out of their foxholes? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-12-12 17:25 |
| #1 Woman beating on your car with a post? Shoot her dead and let the coroner sort it out. Was she black by any chance? Haven't heard of any riots breaking out yet. |
| Posted by: jpal 2020-12-12 17:20 |