FILE - In this Oct. 2020, file photo, protesters and police line up in Wauwatosa, Wis., in the case against Wauwatosa Police Officer Joseph Mensah for the Feb. 2 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Alvin Cole at Mayfair Mall. A Wisconsin judge was set to announce Wednesday, July 28, 2021, whether he will invoke a rarely used process to charge Mensah in the 2016 slaying of a Black man who was sitting in a parked car. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday found probable cause to charge a police officer in the 2016 slaying of a Black man who was sitting in a parked car, taking the rare step of overruling prosecutors years after they declined to charge the officer.
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A judge announced Wednesday that he has found probable cause to bring homicide charges against a Wisconsin police officer, five years after a local district attorney declared the officer was justified in his use of deadly force on a man he found sleeping in a car in a suburban Milwaukee park.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Glenn Yamahiro said at a hearing that there is probable cause that former Wauwatosa police officer Joseph Mensah committed the crime of homicide by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon when he killed 25-year-old Jay Anderson Jr. in 2016.
Infrastructure deal: Senate suddenly acts to take up bill
WASHINGTON (AP) â The Senate voted Wednesday night to begin work on a nearly $1 trillion national infrastructure plan, acting with sudden speed after weeks of fits and starts once the White House and a bipartisan group of senators agreed on major provisions of the package thatâs key to President Joe Bidenâs agenda.
Biden welcomed the accord as one that would show America can âdo big things. It includes the most significant long-term investments in nearly a century, he said, on par with building the transcontinental railroad or the Interstate highway system.
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Cambridge offers free play
CAMBRIDGE College Square Park will be the site of the summer theatre performance of Craig Sodaro’s Tom ‘N’ Huck, which will start at 7:30 p.m. On Tuesday, Aug. 3.
The cast is a conglomerate of students from Cambridge and Geneseo Schools and members of the community of Cambridge. The performance is free to the public and will feature a pie/cake raffle to raise funds for future performances.
The play is the first performance of a summer community theatre program, thanks to the support of the summer AIM Program through the Henry Stark Bureau Regional Office of Education. The AIM Program has been a part of Cambridge Schools for over five years, but this is the first public play.
Cudahy police shooting: Woman pleads guilty, gets 10 years in prison
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Brandi Bacon
CUDAHY, Wis. - Brandi Bacon, 33, of West Allis was sentenced to 10 years in prison – pleading guilty to one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide – after she fired shots toward police during a Cudahy incident.
Police responded to a reported fight near Pennsylvania and Ramsey the night of March 13. When officers arrived, a criminal complaint states, several people told officers that Bacon was intoxicated and had pointed her gun in the air, firing a shot.
Officers searched the area and found Bacon, asking her to come out. She then fired a shot in officers direction, the complaint states, and moved across a yard – firing two more shots as officers took cover.