Police Officer Who Resigned After Fatal Shootings Is Hired as Sheriffâs Deputy
Protests erupted in Wisconsin after the officer, Joseph Mensah, killed a teenager in February â his third fatal shooting in five years. He resigned but was sworn in on Monday as a deputy in a nearby county.
Joseph Mensah, in an undated photo while he was a Wauwatosa, Wis., police officer.Credit.Gary Monreal/Monreal Photography Llc/Wauwatosa Police Department, via AP
Jan. 27, 2021
A former police officer in Wauwatosa, Wis., who shot and killed three people during his tenure and resigned following protests last year, became a law enforcement officer again on Monday when he was sworn in as a deputy sheriff just across the county line.