The envelope looked like any other â slightly wrinkled, a handwritten address scrawled across the front.
But Jared Cain said he felt violated after looking inside. He saw a ticket for breaking the curfew Milwaukee adopted to regulate protests after a May 25 murder in Minneapolis seen around the world: When police officer Derek Chauvin knelt for more than 9 minutes on the neck of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man.
Cain did not interact with Milwaukee police during local protests the night of May 31 and early morning June 1, but police cited a video he streamed on Facebook as proof that he was out past 9 p.m. The listed penalty: $691, nearly the median monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Milwaukee.
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On March 13 of last year, six bullets from a Louisville, Kentucky, police officer’s gun ended the life of a promising emergency room technician with aspirations of becoming a nurse.
On the anniversary this Saturday of Breonna Taylor’s death, Milwaukee’s activists and artists will celebrate her life by honoring the city’s first responders and health care workers dedicated to saving lives.
“I know from being on both sides of the call, first responders respond to emergencies when not in uniform as a moral code of conduct and that alone is worthy of honor,” said Robert Agnew Jr., 33, co-founder of Milwaukee Artists for Racial Justice and an EMT student. “All professions are not created equal, and we want to let the first responders know, we see them, support them and to keep going.”