Wisconsin Assembly police bills meet mixed reviews
5th & Lapham triple shooting; 1 dead
One man is dead and two others are injured, one critically, after a shooting on Milwaukee s south side Thursday.
MILWAUKEE - The Assembly s Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety held its first public hearing on the package of seven bills related to policing was held Thursday, May 27.
The bills come after months of community discussion and a year full of protests. While some support the legislation, others say it is not enough.
The vice president of the Milwaukee Police Association testified in support of the bills, but in other parts of the city, protestors said it is not what the community wants.
“These Bills Do Not Rise to the Occasion, or Go Far Enough”
MILWAUKEE – In reflection on the seven policing-related bills from the Speakers’ Task Force on Racial Disparities that were discussed and debated during today’s Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety public hearing, State Rep.
David Bowen (D-Milwaukee) released the following statement:
“Quite frankly, the bills we heard in Committee today were a disappointment. Back at the beginning of the Speakers’ Task Force process, when it was revealed that Task Force Co-Chair Rep. Steineke had called the appointment a ‘political loser’ and indicated that the purpose of the task force would be ‘creating guardrails’ around reform, I largely held my tongue in the press. I was willing to give Rep.
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Before Breonna Taylor was killed one year ago in Louisville, she had been asleep in her home an apartment that didn’t have any of the contraband police had come looking for.
Her death has led to marches and protests against police brutality and racism across the country. In Milwaukee on Saturday, dozens gathered in a small art studio on the city’s near south side for a celebration of Taylor’s life and to push harder for a statewide ban on no-knock warrants, which began the chain of events that ended in six bullets hitting Taylor.
“Being a Black person working in a system that isn’t designed to operate for me – how do I maneuver through that?” Tiffany Henry, the president of the Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals, asked the crowd. “How do I teach people that this policy has to reflect me? Because it could be me. I sleep at night.”