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Why are the cops first responders to something that doesn t involve crime. too many times they re just responding to people hanging out on a bench or having a bad day or in this was a couple of weeks before he died. what i notice in all of his pictures, he was smiling. that was his uniqueness. dontre smiled all the time. and when his life was dangtakenm us, we didn t know what to do. adding to maria s grief, the police didn t even file criminal charges against officer manny. they said his use of deadly force, 14 shots into dontre, was justifiable. we ve heard that way too many times before. it was like am i in a movie? and my fight even to this day is the truth. all i ever wanted was the truth. so i was pulled into a fight trying to get the truth. ....
When his life was taken from us, we didn t know what to do. adding to maria s grief, the police did not even file criminal charges. they said his use of deadly force, 14 shots into dontre, was justifiable. we ve heard that way too many times before. it was like am i in a movie? and my fight even to this day is the truth. all i ever wanted was the truth. so i was pulled into a fight trying to get the truth. whenever a black youth or black person is murdered by a police officer, often we see the moms step up. if we don t save our babies, they re not going to save us. ....
Also security around the new year s eve ball drop in times square will be increased. another fatal shooting involving a police officer is adding tensions between the community and law enforcement. talking about milwaukee. the district attorney there has decided not to charge police officer christopher manny for killing dontre hamilton during a confront traation back in april. the officer said hamilton who was mentally ill grabbed his nightstick and started hitting hip. he fired 14 shots. hamilton s mother said the case is bigger than the death of her youngest son. it s not just about dontre in milwaukee. it s about all the lives that have been taken. we hurt. we work to live in a community that we live in and our system has failed us. the justice department has opened a federal civil rights review of the case in milwaukee. officer manny has since been fired for not following ....
Protests after a cop killed a mentally ill man and will not face charges. officer christopher manny shot dontre. hamilton got hold of the officer s baton and hit him with it officer manny was later fired from the force, not for shooting, but how he handled the man who was known to be mentally ill before the altercation took place. we re getting our first look at dash cam video following the shooting, the feds are opening an investigation into this case. let s get to george howell on the ground in miami. george, what do we know? chris, good morning, important to talk about timing, this decision playing out around the same time, as events in new york and protesters talking about it. they say that murder and violence is never condoned. and they say it shouldn t be accepted in this case, either. the frustrated mother of the victim says she is not surprised by that decision. ....
Happened. i may have been hit but i m okay, i m off the air now. reporter: the police chief fired him for his actions that day saying he allegedly instigated the confrontation and though he correctly identified hamilton as mentally ill he did not follow proper training. people have been protesting what happened here months before michael brown s death in ferguson and eric garner s death in new york. it s not just about dontre in milwaukee. it s about all the lives that have been taken. reporter: maria hamilton believes her son died at the hands of an overzealous cop. in fact, she points to a bizarre incident caught on tape back in 2012. the same officer seen here scuffling with a clown on the streets. police say the clown was darting in and out of traffic, spraying cars with a squirt gun and that he resisted arrest. hamilton says it s another ....