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447 2 minutes read On Dec. 15. the Milwaukee Common Council voted 9-6 to reject the $9.7 million Community Oriented Policing Services grant, which would have hired 30 additional police officers for three years. After the vote, Alderwoman Nikiya Dodd made a motion to reconsider the grant, so the council will vote on it again in January. But if the vote stands, the Milwaukee Police Department will lose 120 personnel for the 2021 budget. “I didn’t expect it,” said Christiaan Cocroft of Pa...

Complaint: Firefighter shot man 6 times after fight over basketball By Kasey Chronis and FOX6 News Digital Team Published  Firefighter shot man 6 times after fight over basketball, prosecutors say Prosecutors say Caesar Fuentes and Andra Nicholson, Jr. were at a Third Ward club when they got into an argument over who had the better high school basketball team. MILWAUKEE - A Hales Corners firefighter fatally shot Andra Nicholson, Jr., 25, in an alley in Milwaukees Third Ward Sunday, Dec. ...

An online fundraiser for Nicholson has already raised more than $30,000.