Man killed by MPD, bodycam demands from family
Family demands bodycam footage after police shooting of Roberto Zielinski
A week after Roberto Zielinski was shot and killed by Milwaukee police, his family and friends are calling for the body camera footage of the incident to be released.
MILWAUKEE - A week after Roberto Zielinski was shot and killed by Milwaukee police, his family and friends are calling for the body camera footage of the incident to be released.
Outside Milwaukee Police District 6 Sunday morning, June 6, family and friends of 49-year-old Roberto Zielinski called for the bodycam footage associated with the fatal police shooting to be released.
Abbie Fishman, Jilly Gokalgandhi, Kahri Phelps Okoro and Alex Brower.
Next week voters head to the polls again – as four of the nine seats on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors are up for re-election.
In District 5, which includes parts of Harambee, Riverwest, downtown and the East Side, four candidates will be on the ballot for the Feb. 16 primary. After the primary, two candidates will move on to the general election on April 6.
Early voting is open at City Hall until 5 p.m. Friday. You can find your Election Day polling place here.
Below is biographic information for candidates and answers to five questions about why they feel they are qualified and what they think about some of the school board’s current issues.
We do not know how many, if any, sworn police officers from Southeastern Wisconsin were among the MAGA mob who stormed the Capitol to try to overturn a free and fair election.
Unlike many police departments across the country, the Milwaukee Police Department will not investigate whether its members traveled to DC for Trump’s “Save America” rally, participated in the violent attack on Congress, or made inciting or supportive statements on social media. Neither will the Kenosha Police Department, nor others in the area. But with on-going investigations into more than 32 members of law enforcement for their role in the rampage, we know that some police officers have been so radicalized by Trump and the MAGA movement that they are hostile to multiracial democracy. They put their bodies on the line to reject the outcome of a democratic process, rejecting Black votes as fraudulent and stolen.