That was received earlier regarding the charging decision as well as a copy of the Police Departments investigative synopsis of the case and extra copies are available if need be. After chief weber concludes that will have Additional Information for you from the Police Department and additional videos. Weve received from the milwaukee Police Department the dci enhanced video and i will have a copy of that you will also have dispatched radio to permit transmission to make transmissions that occurred during the time of t incident so chief weber will be out here. Chief. We have received decision from the District AttorneyDistrict Attorneys office today regarding the investigation into the june 232,016th officer involved shooting. The da das office has found that the officer acted in accord with Wisconsin Law and justifiably used deadly force in this incident. I will speak to some of the facts of the incident but i would like to reiterate that this incident is a tragedy for everyone involved. Wauwatosa police treats everyone we come into contact with with dignity and respect. Human life is the most important commodity in our society today. Log requires an outside agency investigate incidents where an officer involved death occurs. We complied with the law and did not in any way interfere with the investigation investigation or make any request while this matter was being investigated. It was turned over to the milwaukee Police Department to for us i would like to thank the milwaukee Police Department for their professionalism and sensitivity in dealing with this incident. State statute 175. 47 states that if the District Attorney determines there is no basis to prosecute the Law Enforcement officer involved, the agency conducting the investigation shall release reports related to the investigation. Since we now have the District Attorneys decision, the reports can be released. I understand the investigation and charging decision has taken a long time. Some of that delay may have had to do with the videos of the incident being enhanced. The most important thing to remember is that a thorough investigation needs to occur the decisions made to a thorough and careful plot for review based on the law. As presented in the milwaukee Police Department reported and cited in the District Attorneys incident. When the officer appeal observe the vehicle parked in the Early Morning hours he investigated which is customary for the Police Department on and all eolice department and oo the park closes at 10 00 p. M. If their vehicles and thereafter their afterhours, officers are supposed to investigate to find out what is going on. When he investigate investigated he observed the semiautomatic handgun on the front seat on the passenger side of that vehicle and he saw that vehicle in the people in the par luke 9millimeter loaded with 16 rounds of ammunition plus one round of rounded the chamber. The officer requested backup on the radio and said this that the subject he was involved with at the park had a gun. The officer told the subject that he could see the gun, to raise his hands and not reach for the gun and that he had backup coming. The subject raised his hands above his shoulders, suggesting he was complying with the officers orders. Started to lower his right arm are leaving for the front passenger seat where the gun was located. On each occasion the officer directed verbal commands to the subject instructing him to not reach for the weapon and keep his hands up. The subject suddenly pitched toward the beached toward gut hand. Fear and for his safety, the officer discharged his weapon as he disengaged from the vehicle. The subject was later found to be legally intoxicated and had marijuana in his system ive watched that video at least 20 times, and i was able to watch it in slow motion, forwards, backwards, frame by frame. I could take as much time as i needed. The Police Officer had less than one second to make the decision. A trained Police Officer reasonably believes there is an imminent thre death or great bodily harm to themselves or someone else is unauthorized by law to authorized by law to the video that exists in this case is from the squad car. The video at the time of the shooting does not have audio recorded. After the incident the officer had the foresight to manually activate the camera are using the portable microphone he was carrying with him. It runs on a continuous continuous loop and records the previous 20 seconds once is activated. That previous 20 seconds is of not record audio. This is what we saw and that is what we have reported. Has made comments to the media that the involved officer was denied counseling and other Mental Health benefits. That claim is totally false and i think it is irresponsible on the part of the attorney to bring such a claim without any substantiation whatsoever. Any officer involved in a Critical Incident like this one is provided with mandatory counseling and is afforded the opportunity to seek additional assistance if they feel is appropriate it is appropriate or policy upon receiving the District Attorneys decision, the officer involved in this incident will be returned to full duty. At this point i will take some questions if you have any. Was this a mandated behavior or elicited judgment altering or n t s a judgment call to re at the time, the officer was by himself and after the incident occurred, when other officers were arriving to back him up, were other people in the park. We did not know if he was one actor by himself, we didnt know what his condition was at the time when the other officers arrived at their job was to get the weapon and makes her no one else had access to it. The epas Office Issued a justifiable use of force decision involving this officer how often does this sort of thing happen. It has not happened in our Departments Department before short period of time but at the offices do not but the officers do not get to choose what calls they go on. In the previous incident that officer and another officer were attacked by a subject carrying a sword so they had no choice but to do what they did. In this case the officer had been cleared. He is back on duty and like all Police Officers we want him to do what he going to do when it comes across a guy with a gun. Can you talk about how this has affected your officer and the department as a whole . I said at the beginning of this is a horrible tragedy for anyone to you lose a Family Member to matter what the no matter what the incident is. It is hard on the Police Department. It is hard on the family. It is something that we had to do and part of what our job is. But heres the thing. Wont release any information until the report is completely ready by the District Attorney because if the District Attorney decides to charge him with a crime, he is afforded the same rights as any other citizen. So we were not going to jeopardize anything like that. All the things get settled over this period of time. We understand that. We never saw that the camera in nor did i respond when to any requests by anybody because im not going to interfere with investigation. Its going to be done exactly the way it is supposed to be done and it got to tell you it is hard not to respond to some of the things especially when you see things that you know are not true but in the end it is imperative that the right decision be made. Would you clarify any disability that the attorney for the family has suggested that officer mensah have a slight disability but his claim was denied and he was sent back to work so there they are simply there simply are suggesting that he was not ready to go back to work he he could become claim regards to his disability was totally untrue. They said that they dont have substantiation i think with the way it was ported worded in their complaint. Totally untrue. That has never happened. He gave gather any concerns about his safety. Am always concerned about that because after the incident he has also received death threats. Police say how come you dont release the name of the Office Officer but its just like we dont release the name of somebody in unless theyre charged with a crime and unless this officer was going to be charged than we would re and again, we do afford him the same rights as everyone else. Can you talk a little bit about of a about the National Climate with Puppies Police shootings . Is does that make this particular situation more difficult because of the attention these cases get . I think every National Shooting has brought attention to matter attentional matter what hpe i think of an officer involved in Los Angeles California gets involved in the incident incidence of incidentig i focus on all Police Officers no matter where they they are very difficult but at the same time, that does not mean we change doing our jobs and its imperative to us to recognize that Police Officers as long as there is a human factor, there is Police Officers making decisions, more correct decisions every day than ones that are incorrect. As long as humans are involved sometimes bad things will happen. That is unfortunate but the fact is that they are investigated, that is were where justice is se if an independent body or judge or prosecutor prosecutor grand jury looks of the case and says yes, a charge is warranted, is. If it is not then we move forward and that is what we have two had to do the been a number of demonstrations here all focused on the Julie AndersonJimmy Anderson case. Now that decision is going to make none of those demonstrators happy. It is the height of the Christmas Season and the target of the modern holidays. What mall during the holidays. What do expect during the and how do you and prepare for them prepare for that and engage in a conversation. That is where you know someone independent today to look at the fact that the spirit carefully and i think if you read the letter from the District Attorney, they examined everything very carefully and thoughtfully so people you know no matter what this decision is, somebody is not going to be happy. That is the way it goes. If it went in favor of the family, is it an injustice to the Police Officer and we wouldnt have been happy with that either because we think he was acting in accordance with law which ultimately it turned out to turned out to be. They are never easy. As we move forward with the Christmas Season, i dont know why someone would want to target the mall. That has nothing to do with anything. I think if people want to advocate for some sort of change in the law, this law says you officer involved d that happened that it went into law here in wisconsin and we confided that put the letter of the law and that is what we will continue to do. We will continue to enforce a lie and we will continue to treat everybody with the respect they deserve. Can you explain why can again there is no audio on the video and the other thing is that the family has had the love that luck of but they said he was complying with the officer can you say that he is not complying . What do you see hate to see that shows he is not complying. At first you heard that one when this first became public that he was asleep in the park and he wasnt doing anything wrong we saw the video early on in the officer engaged him. Radio with the transcript from the radio when he called for backup says he has a gun so we dispatched back up and he the officer still engaged him for at least another minute before the accident incident happened. In the video you see the subjects hands. You see them drop a couple of times and the officer told him to keep his hands up in the final time you he sees hands dropped and you see him make a movement that it appears he is going for the this was a squad video. The squad video is activated as the officer turned on the emergency lights in the car. There was no need for the emergency lights to be on at that time because he was merely investigating a car that was parked. When he got involved in the incident, after the shooting took place, he activated the squad video. Did it from his remote. That runs in a continuous loop and recorded the previous 20 seconds. We havent gone full tilt on the body chemist of the other. We are hoping that at some point it will do that. Weve had squad videos for over 20 years now. We were one of the first to do that so body cameras around the country everybody thinks is seen as a to everything and we had to look at everything in the whole totality and contact and i think thats context and i think thats why we said we would wait for everything to be out and that did they make the decision. Why did the officer when he saw that there was a gun in the front seat with access to j anderson why didnt he back off and wait for backup drive . The subject was parked engaged him and he said i see the guns gun pete your hands up. If he disengaged and he has the possibility that the subject grabbed the gun and done something else. I dont have the answer know the answer to that. The officer for the backup which i think was the appropriate thing to do and things just unfolded in a couple of seconds. You can look at hindsight and should have adduced different decision for that have happened. Possibly the same time he had less than a second to make the decision. Is the Police Departments procedure in a case like this did something happen this incident that would cause you to change protocol . We will do an internal investigation out of the District Attorneys investigation is done at this point i cant fully answer that question if there is something we should do or should change we will certainly examine it but as of right now we have not changed. We will do our own investigation to see what transpired will see there is a violation of policies or procedures new line investigate that. I do expect he will return to duty before that. Is that something youre investigating . I think the social media is all types of threats. Usually we tell people to stay away from social media and and dont examine the because you see so many of those types of things. Are there any other questions for me . Can you talk about the impact on other officers . I can tell you it has been very difficult for them. This happened june 23rd of them and this december so he has been on administrative leave which is customary. We try to them and we tell him to stay away from social media things and stay with the stories about this case we just waiting to see if he is going to be charges of criminal away so i think its been very emotional on him but we will do what we be just fine. In this case when he found him with the gun he said i see the gun stay away from the gun pete your hands up a backup, and we will get this resolved. He told him that and when you do watch the video you see them drop his hand a couple of times and he he kept his hand him hes a dont drop your hands if apprehensive your hands up. We wouldve done been the search to find out if there was any illegal activity going on care what he was joined in the park with identification of the usual things that Police Officers do. That wouldve been probably what wouldve transpired. And audible. I have not. One Fatal Shooting two very different points of view on that Fatal Shooting. Hell been watching for the last hour, you have heard from the family of anderson who is not at all happy with the decision by the da not to charge the officer in the shooting and you just heard from the chief will be the officer where who where not naming has received death threats. We dont know when he will be back on the job he will but questions remain, with the wauwatosa Police Department do anything differently after this shooting . We dont know much about this shooting the shooting but we do know when the video was released. What we do not know is why the audio was not turned on initially. Other departments require that if contact is going to be made that the microphone returned on this was not done and were hoping to provide some answers to that in this coverage. The tape is being released by the media and we were will could give as we were could give his early as 6 00 oc the big breaking news news 800 more local news. A small town of big crime. Thats what. County officials are investigating and fox lake. Feud with ntfs and people live and fox lake. Many know each other. They also know when something when i went home and when i got home, i turned the scanner on and heard that dodge county make a dispatch called. Sunday evening leonard heard something. I heard a pop and those about five or ten minutes before i left. Neighbors pointed this home on we go trail. They say those who live here moved in on labor day and no one nearby at the mall. They parked in the drive, including a huge camper. Thousands of dollar others he was going to move to nevada with his girlfriend and open a restaurant. Before he left, he bought this house for his mother. Sunday evening neighbors say police and deputies responded and there was a death. They are looking for another expensive vehicle that may have left the scene. A 2016 dodge ram pick up dark blue in Nothing Official to release from officials here but if you have information about that dodge ram you are asked to calle the dodge county sheriff. Live in fox lake Myra Sanchick fox6 news mary thanks myra [ tower pinging ] weve got a problem, friend. Half off any smartphone for anyone who switches . Whats the problem . The naughty list shouldnt get deals yeah, but anyone who switches gets half off of any smartphone. Even these . Yeah, any smartphone. Call the big guy [ bell dings ] santa . No, jingles. 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