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Milwaukee officer fired in death of black man loses appeal

By: Associated Press//July 27, 2016//

Milwaukee officer fired in death of black man loses appeal

By: Associated Press//July 27, 2016//

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Former police officer Christopher Manney enters after a recess during a Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission hearing in Milwaukee, Wis., Thursday, March 19, 2015. Manney, who was fired after he killed a mentally ill man, began trying Thursday to persuade the city’s police commissioners to reinstate him. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Rick Wood)
Former police officer Christopher Manney enters a Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission hearing in Milwaukee on March 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Rick Wood)

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has upheld the firing of a white Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a mentally ill black man in 2014.

Former officer Christopher Manney was fired for his actions leading up to Dontre Hamilton’s death, but not for the shooting itself.

Manney appealed his firing to the circuit court after losing an appeal with the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Judge Richard Sankovitz said Manney was fired for violating department rules and that his decision to frisk Hamilton escalated a routine police encounter into a catastrophe.

Manney was responding to a complaint of a man sleeping in a park when he says he was attacked and opened fire in self-defense. He shot Hamilton 14 times.

Manney was never charged in the shooting.

 

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