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Group’s members vow to continue pushing for change. //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Doretha Lock, right, mother of Christopher Davis, hugs Kamila Ahmed after both shared memories and calls to action Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Milwaukee, Wis. Davis was killed by a Walworth County sheriff’s deputy in 2016. Angela Major/WPR Doretha Lock was a child in 1981 when she heard about What followed Lacy’s death  — the details of which are still unclear all these years later — was weeks of protest in the city similar to the reaction to  G...

Remember their names rally, call to action takes place in Washington Park © Provided by WISN Milwaukee Nearly one year ago police killed George Floyd during an arrest. It was the name heard across the nation. But Sunday in Washington Park in Milwaukee 14 other names were on display with grieving families standing beneath them. They are the names of 14 people killed by police in the Milwaukee area. Ernest Lacy, Eric Adway, Maxwell Holt, Tony Bean, Derek Williams, Corey Stingley, Dontre Hamilton, Antonio Gonzales, Sylville Smith, Jay Anderson, Christopher Davis, Isaiah Tucker, Alvin Cole and ...

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189 3 minutes read On Feb. 25, activists gathered in Milwaukee to celebrate a long-awaited legal victory in the fight for justice for Christopher Davis. Exactly five years after Davis was killed by then Deputy Juan Ortiz, a judge has allowed a civil case brought against Ortiz to go to a jury trial. The celebration was organized by the racial justice group The People’s Revolution. A massive snow statue was constructed in Davis’ honor and a group of several dozen people marched to the home of Davis’ mother, Doretha Lock, to remember Davis and continue to demand justice. “We are all...