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Milwaukee police officer Christopher Manney, who was fired from the Milwaukee Police Department in connected with shooting and killing a mentally ill man in a downtown park in April.​
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family of a black man shot 14 times by a white police officer in a Milwaukee park marks the spot where he died with red spray paint before starting a rally and marching through city streets.
“Shame on you. People of color are people, too,” protesters chant while carrying signs declaring, “Black Lives Matter.”
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Rallies are one way Dontre Hamilton’s family has kept his name in the news in the six months since his death. Smaller and more orderly than those in Ferguson, Mo., the protests have not drawn national attention but have produced results.
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man who shot Hamilton was fired, the first Milwaukee officer in decades to face such discipline in a fatal on-duty shooting. Now the family wants more: criminal charges for the officer, and improvements in the way mentally ill people — Hamilton had schizophrenia — are treated by police and social service programs.

“They messed with the wrong family. ... I’m not going to back down,” said Nate Hamilton, Dontre Hamilton’s brother.

Hamilton’s family participated in a vigil days after his April 30 death but then said little publicly as they waited out an investigation into the shooting.
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wanted details about what happened and the officer disciplined. They were frustrated months later, when protests erupted in Ferguson following the shooting of a black 18-year-old, Michael Brown, by a white officer.

“We tried to be accepting and respectful of the way the system works. ... Until it got to the point where the Mike Brown thing happened,” Nate Hamilton said. “Now, you know who this police officer is, you’re seeing them get information, and in Milwaukee
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The family joined a Milwaukee demonstration organized to support those in Ferguson, and attention quickly focused on the similarities between the Brown and Hamilton cases.

Nate Hamilton acknowledged some missteps, such as when protesters blocked a freeway exit ramp or became disruptive at a Police and Fire Commission meeting. But overall, the protests have been peaceful, which Nate Hamilton said is crucial to building support for the family’s goals.
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the protests have highlighted that Manney is white and Hamilton was black, Hamilton’s family is focusing on broader issues, including mental health.
Police Chief Edward Flynn promised more training for officers dealing with people with mental illness and, on Oct. 15, fired Officer Christopher Manney for instigating the fight that led to the shooting. Manney has appealed.

Hamilton’s family wants to see Manney charged. The district attorney’s office has delayed a decision until it gets a recommendation from a national use-of-force expert.
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Hamiltons have been studying the law and police policy to better advocate for changes. They’re also finding other ways to channel their grief. Hamilton’s mother is organizing a support group for women whose sons died in police shootings or custody and hopes to address shortcomings in mental health and social service programs.
Maria Hamilton had struggled to get her 31-year-old son care after insurance problems caused him to miss his medication last winter. Until then, he had been doing well, living in group housing and working.

Without the drugs, he became paranoid and began moving from place to place, eventually ending up in the park, where he was sleeping when Manney responded to a call from a nearby business about him.
“Had he had that medication, he might still be sitting here with us,” Maria Hamilton
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Nate Hamilton and another brother, musician Dameion Perkins, wrote a song expressing their grief, anger and frustration. The song describes their “worst fear” — a brother “shot 14 times, didn’t do no wrong. Laying in the park, really I don’t see no harm.
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Proceeds from the song sold on iTunes will benefit a foundation established in Hamilton’s memory.

“We can’t bring Dontre back,” Perkins said, “but what we can do is help somebody along the way.”

Perkins and Nate Hamilton remain bothered by police descriptions of their brother as homeless and violent. They describe Hamilton as fearful, but not dangerous. He checked into a hotel two days before the shooting and had almost $150 in cash on him when he died.
“He wasn’t dressed bummy, he was still dressed well, he had some Air Jordans on his feet ... so we just felt like that was uncalled for,” said Nate Hamilton, who followed his brother into the roofing business before starting a remodeling company.

Maria Hamilton moved her sons from Gary, Ind., to Milwaukee in 1995 to escape growing gang violence. She raised them to work hard, have faith and look out for one another.

But Perkins said the shooting showed them that they had to be leaders.

“It’s taught us,” he said, “to use our minds on a broader scale.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...kee-man-seeks-charges-fired-article-1.1988355
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Dontre Hamilton (pictured) was shot 14 times, killing him. Milwaukee police officer Christopher Manney was dismissed nearly six months after Hamilton's death.
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Paint left in Red Arrow Park by Dontre Hamilton's family marks the area where officer Christopher Manney shot and killed Hamilton on April 30 in Milwaukee. Family and friends say they will continue to hold rallies and protests in an effort to convince Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm to bring criminal charges against Manney in Hamilton's death.​
 
From a schizophrenic sleeping in a park to 14 gunshot wounds...nah, I can't do this one right now.
 
I would like to hear the full story on this one before I go either way on this one. Did have a weapon? Did he pose a threat? Was he just sleeping and officer woke him up to aggressively and set off a paranoid episode? There are so many why's in this one.

There was one incident in Mebane, NC where a black guy was trying to rob an old country grocery store and was showing signs of aggression and had a weapon. An off duty police officer happened to be in the store and unloaded 7 bullets in him. When asked why did he shoot the man that many times the police officer stated "because I didn't have anymore left in my gun". Talk about an uprising!
 
Seven months after his death, Dontre Hamilton’s family’s attorney releases autopsy report
New information has been released in the case of Dontre Hamilton, the 31-year-old man shot and killed by a Milwaukee police office
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The attorney for Dontre Hamilton’s family
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December 1st released Dontre Hamilton’s autopsy report, toxicology report and cause of death — documents from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office that are now public for the first time.

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after Dontre Hamilton was shot and killed by Christopher Manney, a former Milwaukee police officer terminated for his handling of Hamilton that day,
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County District Attorney’s Office continues to investigate. That office will ultimately decide whether Manney should face criminal charges.
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Dontre Hamilton’s family received a copy of his autopsy report in July. On December 1st, it was released to the media.
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family has wanted to get (the autopsy report) out for some time. We’ve held off on doing that, hoping again that there would be a decision by the District Attorney. It’s now been seven months. The family continues to hear mischaracterizations of the facts. (Dontre Hamilton)’s a person that is my size. He’s 5’6″ or 5’7″ weighing 169 pounds. Not a large person. It does not jive with how Manney described Dontre,” Hamilton family attorney Jonathan Safran said.


The autopsy report lists 21 gunshot wounds — and that includes entry and exit wounds.



“The fact there is no stippling or gun residue on Dontre Hamilton’s body would reflect that there was some distance. I’m not a forensic expert — probably at least three feet or so at the minimum. The wounds show that at least half of them were in a downward direction, even though they were both supposedly standing. There’s one that reflects it was shot into Dontre Hamilton’s back,
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The autopsy report released by Dontre Hamilton’s family through Safran says Hamilton died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds. His death was ruled a homicide by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office. That ruling means Hamilton died at the hands of another.

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Hamilton family says they want the public to know Dontre Hamilton wasn’t homeless. He had the following items on his person when he died: a wallet, a cell phone, a backpack, a blanket, candy and cash totaling $160.

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family says Hamilton was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia a couple years before he was shot and killed, but he didn’t have a long history of mental health issues and no criminal record.



A toxicology report released with the autopsy report shows there were no drugs in Dontre Hamilton’s system when he died.

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family continues to wait for the District Attorney’s Office to determine whether Hamilton’s death merits criminal charges. The District Attorney’s Office says they are aware of the autopsy report, and they have no comment at this time.



“We think there is sufficient evidence there should be state criminal charges,” Safran said.
http://fox6now.com/2014/12/01/seven...ons-familys-attorney-releases-autopsy-report/
 
Still so many unanswered questions. I am surprised this case has not been in the news more.
 
Why talk about cops genuinely overstepping their bounds in a clear cut manner when you can talk about looting???
 
I just don't understand how it can be self defense when the some shots were fired in a downward angle and one into the back. Almost sounds like he began firing on him while he was getting up.
 

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