He also wants justice for Isaiah Tucker, a 28-year-old Black man, whom Oshkosh police officer Aaron Achterberg shot and killed 2017 after a caller reported Tucker was trying to take items from her home.
After an outside investigation, Winnebago County District Attorney Christian Gossett later determined Achterberg was justified in shooting Tucker because he said Achterberg thought Tucker was going to hit him with a car while fleeing the scene. It s a victory but it s a small victory, Pratt said about Tuesday s guilty verdict against Chauvin.
Grayce Chapman agreed Tuesday s verdict in the Chauvin case was a small victory but echoed the sentiment that it is only one example of police accountability.
Black History of Wisconsin, Part 4: Still Rising
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This is the last of a four-part series exploring the history and struggles Black Wisconsinites have endured. Read
MILWAUKEE Growing up in Milwaukee, community organizer Angela Lang experienced “a tale of two cities.”
Lang, the executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC), loved living in the predominantly Black Merrill Park neighborhood. “It’s where I feel at home,” she said.
But she also saw how other people vilified her community, and felt the deep racial divides that existed between different parts of Milwaukee which remains one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.