A rally was held on Thursday afternoon to mark the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer at a downtown Milwaukee park.
After nearly 100 people marched from Milwaukee’s near west side to Red Arrow Park, about a dozen demonstrators laid on their back at the site of Dontre Hamilton’s death.
Dontre’s brother Nathaniel told the crowd that the now-fired officer Christopher Manney shook the city awake, “to say no more police brutality, no more injustice, no more police officers not being held accountable.”
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Hamilton’s mother Maria said she hopes federal authorities still take legal steps against Manney, who recently failed in his attempt to get Milwaukee’s Fire and Police Commission to give him his job back. He could still appeal to a circuit court.
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