Director's Cut

Due to language and adult situations, the following film is intended for mature audiences and is not suitable for children. Viewer discretion is advised.

upbeat music

crowd chanting

helicopter hovers

police speak on megaphone

Do it now. This is the police...

gun fires six times

Stay in your houses! Refusal to disperse will be in violation of Wisconsin state statute. If you do not disperse immediately, you will be arrested. I shot myself in the thigh once with a nail gun.

repeated pops

I picked it up and while I was on my lap and pow!

repeated pops

I had to go get a tetanus shot 'cause it swelled up like crazy. I worked the rest of the day though, but when I got off the roof I couldn't walk. Everyone's story is different, everyone's path is different. You don't know what's actually gonna hit you in life. Like, I was pretty comfortable in my life before all this happened. Working with Dontre got me into this crap. You know, I was a middle child and Dontre, he was the baby. This is something that he was doing to just, you know, make sure he kept money in his pocket. It was like we had to look out for him. We couldn't let nothing happen to the baby. I just hope that people can understand that Dontre was a person who didn't deserve to die, who didn't deserve to be shot 14 times.

instrumental piano music

On April 30th, Dontre went to Red Arrow Park. He called me and I was like, you know, "What's up, Dontre? Where you at?" You know, he was like, "I'm at the park." He sounded real at ease, not really out of the ordinary. What he looked like to me that day was just a student nearing the end of the semester and was just hanging out in the park taking a break. I walked right across the street here, came up this way, and Dontre was laying right here. He had like a little bedroll and a backpack. His head was here and his feet were pointing west. I didn't know if he was sleeping or just resting or... Kind of struck me that he was just laying there. I thought the place he decided rest outside was odd, but I thought he was a college student really. The person I was working with that day called the police because they were concerned about him being so close to business. The first officers approached him, they sat him up, they talked to him, and then they left. My co-worker was talking about how they were gonna call again and I said, you know, "If he was doing something illegal, they wouldn't have just walked away and left him there." A second call was made anyhow and the officers actually came back up to us. And they said "Hey, there's nothing to enforce. He's not breaking the law. Please stop calling." And, honestly, I even forgotten about the whole thing until later when a third officer showed up.

Maria Hamilton

From what we were told, when the call came through dispatch, it went to the beat cop's sergeant. And he left a message on the beat cop's cell phone.

recording of sergeant

Maria Hamilton

Hey, Chris, we just got a call from your people there at the Starbucks by Red Arrow Park. They say there's a homeless guy that's sleeping alongside there. If you wanna check on him, he's a black male, 30 to 40 years old--

Dameion Perkins

This officer called into dispatch.

Officer Christopher Manney

Is there something on the board for Red Arrow Park? I just got a call from my desk sergeant.

Dispatcher

1246, that's a negative.

Dameion Perkins

Dispatch told him that it was clear over at Red Arrow Park.

Officer Manney

Alright, if you could create a trouble with subject at Starbucks...

Nate Hamilton Jr.

This officer then went and told him to get up off the ground. The officer began to pat him down.

Starbucks barista

I heard them before I saw them. Sounds of fighting and two grown men wrestling essentially. The officer apparently backed up and withdrew his baton, and the individual twisted away from the officer, pulling the baton out of his grip. The officer did, kind of lunge for the weapon once, missed. And then when that happened, Dontre swung at the officer's hand, didn't hit him-- I never saw any contact between the two-- and then kind of went back to where they were so the officer's back here. They're probably, again, 15 feet apart at this point. That's when the officer pulled out his gun and aimed it at Dontre.

14 shots fired in rapid succession

Starbucks barista

I knew it was about to happen so I turned away. And that's when I counted 12 or more shots.

Officer Manney

1246, 1246, shots fired, shots fired. Officer involved. Guy started beating me, started beating me, grabbed my baton, was going to hit me in the head with my own baton. Shots fired, Starbucks, Starbucks, help right now. Get me medical, too. He's gonna need medical. Shot multiple times in the chest. Black male. He's about 20. I don't even know if I was hit. It was close combat. I need an officer to help me here, too.

sirens

Maria Hamilton

That day, I didn't see the news. The subject began to beat the officer with the wooden baton, striking him in the head. The officer withdrew his sidearm... The police detectives came to my house, put me in a car, and interviewed me about all my sons.

Dameion Perkins

You know and they questioned my mother in this car for like 30 to 45 minutes. I was just puzzled like, "What do they want at 12 o'clock? What's the problem?" And I told 'em, "Nate has his own business." He say, "What do Dontre do?" I say, "Dontre actually works with a couple of temp agencies. Because of his illness, he hasn't been able to keep a job." The officer that was sitting next to me put his head down. And I asked him what was going on. He was like, "Well, there was an altercation "at Red Arrow Park, "and Dontre was in a scuffle with a police officer and Dontre is deceased." I'm like, "You're telling me my brother dead, but why y'all just now telling us this?" And his words were, "We thought you would have seen it on TV."

Chief Edward Flynn

Good afternoon. The decedent is a 31-year old male by the name of Dontre Hamilton. Now, in the course of our investigation into his background, we have learned that this is not his first experience with the Milwaukee Police Department. As recently as last year...

Dameion Perkins

Breaking news on Thursday afternoon. Chief Flynn's first words were, "I don't wanna demonize this man, "but he's... "homeless, a robber," and all these type of things that he wasn't. Among other events, he's been arrested for armed robbery and for disorderly conduct. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia. And until recently, according to his grieving family, had been acting strangely...

Nate Hamilton

And they stick to this mental health issue because when you hear 'mental health' you think 'crazy.' So if they can put it in people's minds that this was a crazy person who attacked an officer, then they feel that they have leverage within the community. We have violently mentally ill people whose violence is a direct result of their untreated mental illness. They are on the streets of our cities 'cause there's no place else for them to go and their families cannot control them. We asked the detective that night, "Why did they take so long to tell us about what happened to Dontre?" They said he didn't have an ID. This was in his wallet. And this here rent receipt. The cops saying he homeless. And they had proof the whole time. These his keys to his house. Mm-hmm. This is... the blanket that was laying on the ground. I guess right by the outside. This is basically the last thing he laid on at Red Arrow Park. You alright? - Mm-hmm. And you look on the 29th, the day before. I called him six times. And I talked to Dontre April 30th. And, you know, talking to him that day, he sound fine, you know, he sound fine. He didn't sound like anything was wrong. He asked me how I was doing. He asked me if everything was good. I was like, "Yeah, man, everything was good." I think they said the shooting happened, what,

around 3

30.

Like at 3

23, my mom called Dontre on April 30th.

Voicemail of Maria Hamilton

Dontre, this is mom. I haven't heard from you in a couple of days-- well, yesterday morning. Give me a call when you get my message. And so this is basically when he was being killed. My mama called him 'cause she ain't heard from him. And so, I think that's hard to hear, you know. She calling her child in the midst of him being killed.

speaking softly

Voicemail of Maria Hamilton

So... Chief Flynn said that we need to do a better job with mental illness. That is something that is very true. But Dontre having a mental illness did not kill him. That officer murdered my brother. 'Cause they didn't know one way or another if he had a mental illness until my mom was questioned in that car for 45 minutes.

groan

Voicemail of Maria Hamilton

When Dontre got killed, I sat on the couch for two months. 435, how much is it? I believe the whole two months, I was in shock. I didn't wanna eat. I didn't wanna feel.

Nate Hamilton Sr.

Me and Maria was married for 12 years. They say eyes tell everything. I seen something in her that made me want to share life with her. She became pregnant with Junior and we became a family. We got Junior, then we got Dameion, and then we got Dontre over here on the end. And me sitting in the middle, proud father.

Maria Hamilton

This is the house where I raised my boys. It's pretty much the same. We're the first black couple within 50 blocks.

laughs

Maria Hamilton

Well, I don't wanna-- Swimming pool's gone. Cherry tree gone. I didn't want my kids in gangs, and this was more of a family-oriented neighborhood. That used to be Junior, Dameion, and Dontre.

laughing

Nate Sr.

Maria, when I met her, I believe Dameion was two years old. That Dameion and Junior? Dameion grew up to be the overseer of his brothers. And Junior, he always was the fun one, or... you know. Dontre was more quiet. He had to get to know you. He observed you. That your birthday? And you didn't see any of the sickness coming in Dontre as he was growing up as a child.

Maria

This is Nate's baseball picture. Him and Nate grew up like twins. There's Dontre. This Dontre, no-- Ain't it? - That's right That's Junior? - Mm-hmm. Nate and Dontre, they were two of a kind. They believed in each other. They looked out for each other. And they very seldom did things apart. When we broke up, Dontre was 10 years old. It hurted Dontre when we broke up. I think it hurted him more so than any of them. And... I would never... Give me a minute.

pained exhale

Maria

That's an emotional thing. I would have never divorced my kids.

Nate Jr.

We meet with the District Attorney today at six o'clock for his final decision on the outcome, whether he's gonna charge the officer or not. And I just been trying to get my mind to accept it either way. They spoke today like-- - They're not gonna charge him. Oh, c'mon! -I mean whether or not, no, not charge him. They're not going to release the information yet. Are you serious, another run around? Yeah. - Yeah.

Jonathon Safran

It is hard to put into words the turmoil that this family is going through right now. They are just having a tremendous time dealing with the fact that there hasn't been a resolution, that a charging decision has not been made We had belief that today was going to be the day for that decision. They're not going to make any statements at this point. And they are again distraught.

Maria Hamilton

It's just devastating at this point. Anytime that you're looking at a police use-of-force case that results in a fatality, that's a homicide investigation. You're determining whether they had a legitimate objectively-reasonable basis to use force, under those circumstances. This particular case is complex because it occurred in downtown Milwaukee on a late-afternoon on a work day and you literally had hundreds of witnesses, and those have to be interviewed You have to look at the forensic evidence. We talked with the Hamilton family about this, but there's clearly deep disappointment.

Child

Dear Lord, thank you for this food and thank you for blessing my family.

Amen. - All

Amen. Right to the point.

laughter

clapping

Amen. - All

That's perfect. Dontre was a big factor in our family. You know, he would say the funniest things. He would quote every movie he watched. He just remembered it. This is my son. Say I got my middle name from Dontre. Dontre Deon Hamilton. He's like a smooth dude. So he had, like, three gold rings on, a little gold necklace. And he was, like, a ladies man in high school. He had a little perm. You couldn't tell him he wasn't smooth. He used to wear silk shirts when they were out of style. So...

Maria

Dontre never showed any signs of any kind of paranoid or schizophrenic. He was normal. He had a driver's license. He paid his own bills. That's my mommy. And no one in my family and no one in their dad's family were ever diagnosed with any kind of mental illness, so I wouldn't even have known the signs. My nana bouncing. Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.

instrumental violin music

Maria

When we start seeing signs of something different with Dontre, it was after I ended up hurting myself at work. And Dontre came home and cared for me. People living with schizophrenia, what do we call them? We call them schizophrenic. He was staying at my house with me and he would always be sitting in the dark. Or he would say things like, "Did you hear that? You don't hear that?" Mom, Dad, do you hear that? Is this a conspiracy? Is the whole world against me? Schizophrenia, you're trying to steal my soul. God gave me a child that was uniquely made. And he's gone to rest now with the same God that created him. It's an illness. It's nothing to be afraid of. It's nothing to run from. It's nothing... that anybody should die for.

people applauding

Maria

You know, waiting on decision is just hard. It's nerve-wracking. I'm trying to get my life back on focus and once I do that--

Nate Hamilton

We're just playing this waiting game where we can never heal as a family and it's sickening. The topic that we have selected is titled "A Collaborative Response to Crime and Violence in the Community." Are there others in the audience who are on the committee? Chief? Oh.

laughter

Nate Hamilton

Yes, Ed Flynn, Police Chief. The Dontre Hamilton case, for the better part of six months, was agreed by everyone including the family, to have been a tragedy arising out of untreated mental illness in a public space that resulted in violence. Any movement in that direction yet, so... Which is what this was. We are dealing with the outcome of the reforms of the 70s with the mentally ill. In the year-to-date, we got nearly 8,000 calls for service having to deal with the mentally ill. Like many other big cities, we've got a problem with untreated mentally ill people who have no options. Hey, James, how's it going? You go back on your meds and everything good? It was a mental health issue in April. Once Ferguson broke, suddenly it's a racial issue.

Voiceover

CNN breaking news.

Male reporter

A handful of witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown, they have come forward. But we're hearing that there may be many more. And there were a lot of bold-faced opportunists who latched onto this family and decided it wasn't a mental health story anymore, it was a race story. When we started the Coalition for Justice, it started because we were at a rally. I say that the only thing we need to reflect on is the history that has culminated into now. You know, I was kind of like still getting new to all this process, but I saw a lot of courage and energy in Khalil. Let's make some noise for Ferguson. Hands up!

Crowd

Don't shoot! And Curtis Sails, you know, me and him kind of clicked right away. Hands up! Don't shoot! Curtis brought so much information to the group. Take a look at this, I typed this up... Because he stayed researching to create a plan, some goals.

Maria Hamilton

I appreciate you girlfriends. I'm gonna get me a history lesson. And fighting for Dante was our main objective. And you two are planning to eat in here? We're not going to continue to accept what's going on in the black and brown communities. We're not gonna accept what's going on around the nation. Our Fire and Police Commission they have a responsibility to protect and serve the citizens of the community of Milwaukee.

Nate Hamilton

I'm just a citizen that knows my rights. And I know that you don't have the ability to put your hands on me if you haven't seen me break the law, no one has said I broke the law. No justice! No compromise! No justice! No compromise! No justice! No compromise! So the Fire-Police Commission needs to discipline appropriately. Any officers should be held accountable when you fail to do your job properly. Who is the designated speaker for the family? We all are. We need one or two designated speakers. No, no, it's a public meeting. How can you keep the public out of a public meeting when you have on the agenda it's a public meeting?

Edward Flynn

In this particular case, to try and fit it into the national narrative, doesn't fit the template. No justice! No compromise! No justice! No compromise! I think it's a mistake to take unrelated cases thousands of miles apart with unrelated fact patterns and leap to a broad conclusion about what the police do. We not going nowhere 'til the chief come out. We going to block this exit.

Crowd

Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Chief Flynn has got to go! Hey, hey!

Woman shouting

Move back, let them through, let them go! Lock arms, lock arms! Everybody lock arms!

chaotic yelling

Woman shouting

#### that! When it first happened, police came to my house. I was ready to go grab a revolver and pop, pop. You know what I'm saying? But it's like, that ain't gonna help. You know what I'm saying? But changing and this? This is going to help. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna keep my life in the process. My kids gonna see that their daddy a strong black man that stands for something.

Nate Jr.

I would say I'm a non-confrontational person but they're not taking this serious.

Nate Sr.

Even though Junior's hurting, he just wants the truth so he can move on with his life. And for the love that he have for Dontre, what happened that day don't set well. He was forced into a fight. He just hopes the truth comes out of it, or the law does the right thing-- not push it under the rug. Get the bullhorn, cops coming up the street. Everyone off the steps! You wanna take it off? - Yeah. We got a meeting here. Still no answers. And we want answers. This ain't justice to be waiting almost five months after a man was shot 14 times! When people have died from cancer, you have people spreading it. You either come out and support injustice...

Female reporter

You're looking at live pictures from Chopper 4 where a protest is causing some chaos on Wisconsin Avenue. Cars are not able to get by these demonstrators They are upset over the shooting at Red Arrow Park more than four months ago of Dontre Hamilton. They have... Does this make you more likely to support them, or no? No.

Crowd

Civil unrest, civil unrest, civil unrest!

strumming guitar

TV audio of a physical struggle and conversation

Nate Jr.

When I first heard initial reports, I'm like, "Well, Dontre don't have a robbery on his record." You know? But I think they just had it tangled. I think I just turned 18. My buddy had a BB gun.

speaking to kids

Nate Jr.

Y'all wanna finish up this tie game? So we end up robbing some older guy and some younger guy. And I don't think we even got much, a couple lottery tickets and a watch or something like that. But it was no more than $50. But the next morning, two detectives came to the house and they basically handcuffed me right in the living room. I ended up doing 18 months in community correction center with a 16-year stayed sentence. Some of those life lessons right there helped me to be a better person. Yes, I made mistakes, but I don't think anyone can hold me to the standard of what I was 17 years ago. Second Court City Hall, Mayor Tom Barrett.

Mayor Tom Barrett

I had the opportunity to speak to Dontre Hamilton's mother and his brother. And one of the things that they made it clear to me that they're interested in is restoring the dignity of their son; the name, their son's name. And, in particular, several items.

One

Dontre was not homeless.

Second

He was not an armed robber

Maria Hamilton

Thank you. And so, I want our community to know that he was neither homeless nor was he an armed robber.

birds chirping

horn honking

upbeat pop music

Maria Hamilton

I don't know what this gonna look like when I'm done.

laughing

Maria Hamilton

David, would you hand me my dress? I can't reach it. I keep my tablet with me. Practically slept with the tablet doing research about police violence. Thank you. I decided that I wanted to do something for those moms because I knew how I felt. These are cute, these little forks. So I reached out to them. For now, I'll just put it there. So, from my understanding, there's a tea party. I'm foreign to tea parties. He was 15 then and it was rough for him, you know. I'm a single parenting, working every day. He was going mentally through some stuff that I didn't know he was going through. I still got my days, I still have my nights, and it's been 15 years. Right. My son, Brandon, walked into the mental health. His neck was broke. His back was broke in three places. He laid in a diaper for three days begging for his life so I still don't know what happened. Her son was shot 14 times. Mine was shot seven. Your husband was shot six. See, somebody is worse than me. Right, right. But I'm glad to be a part of this because I want to see something happen. And that's why I wanna hold the City accountable for us sitting in this room. You have such a strength. You see, my life stood still. I knew I wasn't the same, but my father looked at me earlier this year, he said "I want my daughter back." He said, "I haven't seen my daughter since Max's left." And I haven't...

weeping

Maria Hamilton

Oh... - And I just-- I appreciate your strength. Because God blessed me to meet you. I hate that this happened to you, but it's a strength to me because I kept saying, "Lord, somebody gotta hear me. Somebody has to care." And 11 years and it still hurt like it happened yesterday.

sob escapes woman, tearful sniffles from the group

Maria Hamilton

We need each other 'cause nobody knows what this feels like. I love each and every one of y'all. I love you, too. I love all of you. United we stand together forever. Amazing grace How sweet the sound

Michael Bell Sr.

I think I was like many of the white families out there. I was kind of an ignorant professional.

Nate Hamilton Jr.

We grew up a year apart. Oh, okay. - So we were close.

Michael Bell Sr.

But when somebody gets killed by a police officer, it's a foot race and whoever gets the information out first is the winner.

Maria Hamilton

Alright, thank you, thank you. You be safe getting home. - Alright, take care. I had a son, his name was Michael Bell, who was killed on November 9th, 2004. He was coming home with a night out with friends. Designated driver became intoxicated. Michael's like, "You're too drunk to drive. I'm gonna drive." Michael was under the influence of alcohol, but you can look on the dash cam video, he was driving perfectly straight. Pulled up in front of this house and just then, a squad car pulls up behind him. My son got out of the car, because he was at his own home. But the officer pulled up and said, "Get back in the car. Get back in the car."

recording of officer

Maria Hamilton

According to officer testimony, he had saw this other guy in the front seat. He grabbed Michael and took him around the back of the car and shoved him off camera.

Michael Bell Jr.

Don't tase me. Hands behind your back. Hands behind your back now!

click

Bell cries out in pain

Michael Bell Jr.

Get hands behind your back right now!

Michael Bell Sr.

He got tased multiple times. Ran to the back of the house. Michael was accused of bull rushing an officer here. This is actually the car that was here. It hasn't moved in 10 years. And, sadly, that's the area where Michael, ah, Michael died.

inhales sharply

Michael Bell Sr.

You can see, Michael was shot the morning of November 9, 2004. On Friday, they already ruled it was justified. Before crime lab reports were complete, before autopsy was complete, before witness statements were even taken, they held their own thing and they ruled it justified. Here's a picture of Michael. I'm a veteran and I always felt I was really a brother with law enforcement. I was a captain, and this was my copilot, navigator, and boom operator at the time. For 23 years, I go out and believe in a democratic principle just to come home and have a police officer kill my child. Then think I'm going to get fair and due process and the door is pretty much shut in my face. Here's data. These are news reports throughout the year. I go to Governor Doyle at the time. I go to the attorney general. They don't even bother to give me a callback. This is a contract for a billboard. I don't even know where I ran it. I had to resort to full-page ads in newspapers and billboards to get heard.

Male reporter

...the shooting justifiable. But the city settled out of court with Bell's family. Michael Bell's father has used the settlement money to put up billboards around the state calling for change in the way these investigations are handled. He's backing a bill that would require officer-involved deaths to be reviewed by independent authorities. Did you guess? What? What profession is fine investigating themselves? You cannot have colleagues investigating colleagues and think you're gonna get an objective report. You're not. And there's no profession on earth who can do it. So why would we expect that of law enforcement when the stakes are so high? The law had just passed and the Dontre Hamilton case happened a week later. And I don't think the City was ready for it. The new law required that it would be an outside agency other than the Milwaukee Police Department to investigate the evidence, to interview witnesses, collect the evidence that would then be provided to the District Attorney's Office. What we found early on in this case is that it really was Milwaukee Police Department detectives that did the investigation. What was the police department's role in the investigation? Well, the role in the investigation is to get there fast, freeze the scene, identify witnesses, and get a preliminary idea of what happened. You know, this is midday downtown, okay? We couldn't just stand around or the hundred and some possible witnesses would've all gone home. When DCI got there, it became their investigation. The outside investigation was done by DCI, Department of Criminal Investigation, who has a lot of different agents on it. But the ones that investigated Dontre's case was ex-Milwaukee police officers.

Female reporter

Special agent David Klabunde spent 25 years at MPD and is collecting a city pension of $5,000 a month. Special agent Gilbert Hernandez spent 35 years at MPD. He collects a pension... The challenge here, of course, in Wisconsin is we're the only big city. The rest of the state is overwhelmingly rural and suburban. Alright, Milwaukee is where the homicides occur. I can't get a copper from Deer Antler to come here and know what to do about a homicide investigation. I think the challenge quite honestly is no matter how many levels of review you add, for some folks, if that review doesn't result in a police officer under arrest, it's not believed. I live with a mental health issue. Do I look like a criminal to you? I'm here because I want your support. I want your help, but I can't do that if I'm afraid.

people applauding

Female reporter

My brother was shot 14 times. Sounds like something went wrong in that man's head, which you call a police officer. This officer, which name they won't release. But they released it to the family so I can say his name since I know his name. Right, Chief Flynn? Christopher Manney. So after they shot my brother 14 times, murdered my brother at Red Arrow Park, killed him for no reason. We have been lied to, misinformed, misled, and disrespected and it's time for it to stop.

people applauding

Female reporter

We have to look in more detail at where Christopher Manney came from. Where was he born at? Where was he raised at? Did he have black friends? Did he have Mexican friends? And when you look into his record more in depth, you know that he had a communication problem. He had 17 other occurrences where either used excessive force or he used vulgar language. He had a sexual assault on his record. That's right, and police say the clown was darting in and out of traffic here, going up to cars with squirt guns and trying to squirt them. He even beat up a white clown -

News woman

Female reporter

Police were trying to arrest him and that's when things got heated and the incident is all caught on camera.

Radio host

So, who is Christopher Manney?

Christopher Manney

Well, I grew up in several small towns throughout the Midwest Came from a good Christian family, and joined the National Guard, and then eventually college, and into law enforcement. I did 13-and-a-half years working the street here. Everybody who was in my beat knew that they could trust me, including the street people. You know, a lot of people don't realize, but I was a single parent raising two kids.

Protesters

No compromise! No compromise!

Manney

Everybody says I'm this huge racist guy, but my nanny's Puerto Rican and Mexican, my kids are of a different race. Today, we are gonna go through the autopsy report of Dontre Hamilton.

Radio host

Why couldn't you just talk to him?

Manney

The fact of the matter is that's all I did try to do and the attack was so quick and so violent, you know. I kept pushing him off and he just kept attacking.

Radio host

What was going through your mind at that point? Just that he's gonna kill me. With each of the 14 gunshots and 15 gunshot wounds, there's no stippling or unburned or burned gunpowder particles on the skin surrounding any of the entrances. So, Dontre was not within striking distance of Christopher Manney when he shot. It says at least 7 of the 14 bullets traveled downward. And he had abrasions on the right side of his skin, his scalp, his neck, contusions. So that states that Christopher Manney had a field day even with his baton before he pulled out his firearm.

Person in background

They beat him like a dog. Meeting with the District Attorney, we were provided with photographs of Christopher Manney the day of the incident. There were no visible injuries to his head, his neck, his face, his shoulders, his back. There was a very small abrasion or laceration to his thumb. There was a call from Dispatch where he said he don't know if he was hit, he think he was hit.

Manney

I don't even know if I was hit. It was close combat. I need an officer to help me here, too. Now if you got hit or beaten, so they say, with a baton, you know if you've been struck. Instantly, I remember touching my head and I really felt like my brains were coming out. I remember an officer touched me on the shoulder, and I said, "How bad is it?" Am I gonna live? Are my brains pouring out?" And he said, "No, you got some marks, "you got some bruising, you got some issues, but your brains are intact."

ominous music

Chief Flynn

The Milwaukee Police Department has conducted a comprehensive internal investigation into the officer-involved shooting of Dontre Hamilton at Red Arrow Park on April 30th, 2014. Based on the comprehensive internal investigation, I signed an order terminating Christopher Manney from his employment with the Milwaukee Police Department earlier today. In this case, Officer Manney approached this individual as if he were a criminal suspect even though the officer self-reported that he thought he had mental problems upon his approach. The training to deal with mentally ill people tells you, again, absent them behaving in some menacing fashion, objectively, that putting your hands on them is almost the worst thing you can do. Chief Ed Flynn says Christopher Manney made an error in judgment. Chief Ed Flynn says by not following proper police training and protocol...

Flynn

What's important to keep in mind, I ruled that the officer violated our core value of competence and I fired him. The DA's job is to assess criminality. Going to join us today? - Sorry? Said, you going to join us today? Uh, no. I have to... Trail us.

nervous laughter

Flynn

I was very surprised that his decision to terminate Christopher Manney didn't relate to the shooting. It only related to the fact that he felt that the pat-down search was improper.

Good evening. - Group

Good evening! The chief made the decision based on this officer not following procedures and it ultimately ending Dontre's life and I think that was a good decision. Broken cops have got to go! But we still want this officer to face criminal charges.

chanting

Good evening. - Group

Dontre Hamilton! Dontre Hamilton! Dontre Hamilton!

Officer

Okay, thanks, stay in the car.

Car occupant

Four cop cars for a suspended plate? You know, I was told yesterday that we will start getting intimidated, we will start being harassed. A couple people got their cars towed. They've been writing down license plates and stuff of that sort so it's like they're watching us.

Police Officer

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and Fire and Police Commission. I'm here today on behalf of my police aids to present the eligibility of the appointment to police officer. We stand here before you as a diverse group.

Michael Crivello

I'm not proud of the chief's actions. I think the chief was a coward. And nowhere in this entire nation and certainly not in this city had any officers have been fired for something called "approach considerations." I had been pleading that our officers need to work in tandem. Should Manney have been with another officer, maybe it would have never happened. Because the individual would have saw that there's two of them, there's only one of me. I'm not gonna fight the situation. Probably any other officer would have patted the individual down. You know, bulky coat, maybe the hands are in and out of the pockets. And the actions of that individual caused the situation to become what it became. Chief Ed Flynn terminated our brother officer. The firing was cowardice and unsupported by fact.

Interviewer

What about anything Manney did? Was there anything he could have done differently to avoid the situation? Called in sick. The membership has voted. Their voice shall be heard.

The vote

99.3%. 99.3% voted no confidence. If the chief cannot stand before the membership and lead them properly and give them the confidence so that they can protect the community, then maybe it's time that he packs his bags.

Woman

Hi, they are looking for Patrick. I certainly hope I did not create an uncomfortable situation for you. No, not at all. - Michael... Chief of Staff, good morning, sir, how are you?

Patrick Curley

I'm good. - Good to see you. I'd like to give you this envelope that would have been for the mayor. As you know we invited him to join us, but I'm sure-- Yeah, as you know, the mayor has full confidence in the chief. And I assume that that's gonna be a difference between us. So I'll take the envelope and thanks for coming. Thank you, sir, for accepting it. You guys have a good weekend. Wish you well. - Good. Well, Manney not only wants his job back, he also wants his money. Fox 6's Derica Williams explains. The letter was hand-delivered Friday to the Fire and Police Commission.

Christopher Manney writes

"I hereby appeal from personnel order 2014-102 discharging me from service." Two days before being fired, Manney applied for Duty Disability Retirement. Manney claims this incident has left him with debilitating mental health issues. The benefit process could take from 90 days to a year for a decision to be made. As for the appeal the FPC says...

door opens

multiple conversations in background

Christopher Manney writes

Tonight we want to establish how we will behave tomorrow at the Fire Police Commission meeting. You have the Union coming in, asking for the rehire of Christopher Manney. This will be the first Fire and Police Commission meeting since Officer Christopher, ex-Officer Christopher Manney was released from his position. They canceled the last meeting because the news of the firing it just happened the day before. They think we're going to come and we're going to be rowdy. They think we're gonna be obnoxious. But I want us to come on business. I want us to be that group that they say, "Hey, when an injustice is done the Coalition for Justice is coming out."

Commissioner Sarah Morgan

Alright, good evening. This is the November 6th, 2014 meeting of the Fire and Police Commission. So we will have a period of public comment. Everyone will be limited to two minutes. I want a motion that Dontre Hamilton was unlawfully killed at the Red Arrow Park April 30th. Can I get anyone to second that motion?

crowd agreeing

Commissioner Sarah Morgan

Motion has properly been seconded. The community has spoke. I feel like the Police Union is in denial.

yelling

Commissioner Sarah Morgan

He himself says that he's unfit to do the job.

cheers and applause

Man

Do the right thing and uphold the termination of Officer Christopher Manney.

people applauding

Man

I, a duty officer, have conducted the same exact investigation

group members object

Man

multiple times in a work shift. 99% of the people in this room have not--

gavel banging

Man

been in that situation.

Woman

We don't believe that every officer can do no wrong. But when one of us is used as a sacrificial lamb

crowd member boos

Woman

at the altar of mob rule and race-baiting,

gavel banging

Woman

can we stand united?

cheering and applause

gavel bangs repeatedly

Commissioner

Order in the room.

Michael Crivello

Any reasonable officer would have had to conduct themselves as Officer Manney did.

crowd rumbles

Michael Crivello

Get the hell out of here! While we are united in our statement of no confidence as the Chief--

crowd members interrupting

Michael Crivello

99.3% voted no confidence--

crowd members yelling

Michael Crivello

We are saddened by the loss of Mr. Hamilton. We have compassion for the family. I have prayed for peace for the Hamilton family.

crowd booing

gavel banging

Crowd chants

No justice? No compromise!

Crowd member

Chief Flynn. He's not paying attention. He's playing on his phone.

Chief Edward Flynn

I'm sorry if you find it offensive. I'm keeping up with the developments of the shooting of a five-year-old, alright? Pardon me!

applause

Woman

Because this is where the injustice take place. Khalil. - The injustice takes place--

Female reporter

What's your response to some of the people that thought you were being disrespectful by being on your phone and not being attentive?

sighs

Female reporter

Well, I was on my phone. Yes, that's true. I was following developments with a five-year-old little girl sitting on her dad's lap, who just got shot in the head by a drive-by shooting. Now they know all about the last three people that have been killed by the Milwaukee Police Department over the course of the last several years. There's not one of them can name one of the last three homicide victims we've had in this city. Now there's room for everybody to participate in fixing this police department, and I'm not pretending we're without sin. But this community's at risk alright, and it's not because men and women in blue risk their lives protecting it. It's at risk because we've got large numbers of high-capacity, quality firearms in the hands of remorseless criminals who don't care who they shoot. And I take it personally, okay? We're going up there and there's a bunch of cops processing a scene of a dead kid. Now, no offense, but I'm going up there now.

engine rumbling

motor running

Man on TV or radio

The situation in which an individual whose family apparently either gave up on him or had no success in coping with him. So we put it all on the last cop, the one that's getting whaled away on by the guy. So, yeah, I think the whole Black Lives Matter and the marching in the streets and bitching about the cops, I think it's all crap. That's what I... This guy that sent me a message and said. "Shut the F up Nigger, same for all niggers, "bunch of whining SOBs. "Hope they put all you niggers in a cage where you belong, aka prison." You know, maybe he saw me on the news talking about something, but wanting people to be better, wanting fairness, like, what's better to do than that? You know, you have these people that say, "I stand with the blue." and, "I back the blue." You know what? You got your shoes on the wrong feet.

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Man on TV or radio

They think that we just are out for police officers. Like, no, we're not. No, we want the police to be better. You had a good game, man. Played the defense a little better. 60% of people who get arrested have mental health issues. But our police departments don't know how to deal with people with mental health issues. A lot of people think this training, "Oh, it's a pacification." and I don't want people to get it twisted. As we fight, we just don't walk the streets. We just don't yell. We change things. We want to make sure the police department understood that their training was inadequate.

people chanting

Man on TV or radio

Where's the mayor? Where's the mayor? This department here? - He's not here. This is his building where he works at and we expect him to come and address the situation. You know, you've talked to him a couple times already. This time, we want something in stone to make sure all officers get CIT training before the year 2017.

Flynn

We know in this case that even though Christopher Manney walked a beat in downtown Milwaukee, he didn't have CIT training.

Woman

You know if one in five people have mental illness we have mental illness amongst our own ranks, as well.

Flynn

I think people are putting an awful lot on the 40-hour course.

Man

One gun per locker.

Flynn

Everybody gets some version of the training, even if they don't have the entire course.

Woman

If you're a one-man squad, ladies and gentleman, you get there and it don't feel right, don't look right...

Flynn

My officers know how to size somebody up. And if they need a specialist, they can get one. PTSD, so her big thing was noises that trigger... But it's stunning to me that there's not a social problem in America that apparently can't be solved by more training for the police.

Mayor Tom Barrett

Good afternoon. Today I am announcing that the Milwaukee Police Department will commit to having all police officers receive 40 hours of Crisis Intervention Team training by 2017.

TV

This is CNN breaking news.

Reporter

Breaking news coming out of the St. Louis area. Grand Jury has been released. They have reached a decision on whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager Michael Brown. We should get an announcement very shortly.

TV reporter

From a source close to Darren Wilson what they were telling me, and I think it's important for our legal minds who are listening to this, if there was an indictment, there would have been a suppressed indictment. And they have not asked Darren Wilson to turn himself in. Additionally, a bullet fired from Officer Wilson's weapon was located inside the driver's door. The shot was fired from inside the vehicle, striking... Your reaction to this "no indictment"? You know, you look at the history of things and it's just like the same thing over and over and over. These officers get off with murdering a person.

Message to D.A. Chisholm

Make the right decision. At this point you can see the crowd is still a little bit unruly. Some windows broken out. I saw one of the demonstrators putting lighter fluid on one of the police cars

woman weeping

Message to D.A. Chisholm

that was here, as well.

Maria Hamilton

We're not out here to tear the city up.

Jonathon Safran

And they know that, but their bigger concern are other people just like in Ferguson.

Maria

Well, we ain't got no control over what other people, agitators are doing.

Safran

But they think that your family controls what everybody else does.

I gotta go. - Safran

Be careful, be safe. I will. They on social media talking about they gonna bring gas cans and this, that, and the others. I ain't got no control over what somebody else do. My purpose is to march. They need to stop killing our kids. Then we won't have to worry about people feeling like they want to tear the city up.

Crowd chants

Hands up, don't shoot! Hands up, don't shoot! What do we want? - Justice! When do we want it? - Now! What do we want? - Justice! When do we want it? - Now! Man, they just rolled up on this guy with a gun. He just came from the march. - Damn, niggas. Like it was set up or something! Like, they just all swarmed in with their guns drawn. You record us. We record you, dirty mother#######.

Khalil Coleman

Y'all wanna try to hear me for a minute? In Ferguson right now, they're burning #### down. I feel like with Khalil, there wasn't nothing wrong with his approach, you know, for myself.

Khalil

I'm out here because I want to shut something down. It was just as a family member of Dontre, we were trying to do things a little softer. They got a Bucks game over there. They think they're going to have some fun. Let's make them uncomfortable right now.

crowd cheering

Khalil

Let's make them uncomfortable. And it just transpired to an aggressive state.

chaotic yelling

Khalil

I'm just trying to go to a Bucks game.

Crowd

Be strong, fight back! Be strong, fight back! Be strong, fight back! Be strong, fight back! Be strong, fight back!

Khalil

Where you gonna run in the face of injustice? How you gonna turn your cheek, your brother just got killed.

Maria

Take the bullhorn from him before I go off.

Khalil

And your sister just got killed. And families ain't get justice. Man, it's ridiculous. Ya know what I mean?

Nate

If y'all wanna go with Khalil, no problem with that. But the Hamilton family, myself and my mom, she wanna work her way back to Red Arrow Park.

Khalil

Alright, this ain't no conquer/divide! "If you with Khalil, go over there. If you with me, come over here."

yelling

Khalil

I'm with you. I've been stomping in the streets, fighting for justice with you, to help Dontre Hamilton mom.

Maria

I don't know what you came out here for, but I came out here to stand with the Brown family. Him and Dontre not coming back. I have to live in this city, so if y'all wanna go, tear up, burn up, burn cars, do whatever, have your way.

Khalil

I'm not gonna let you assassinate the media like that, like we out here trying to mess up and burn up-- Man, I am not compromising.

Marsha Hamilton

I'm going back to Red Arrow. And I'm going home.

crowd cheers

Crowd member

Amen.

Nate Hamilton Jr.

I'm pretty sure around the world they would expect that a group of this magnitude to loot and steal and cause some type of damage, but damage is not gonna get us justice. But... we can't control people forever.

Woman

We want justice for Christmas. Nate Hamilton, I'm part of the Coalition for Justice. We're just bringing awareness to the community about the Dontre Hamilton situation. We're just going around the back... We're canvassing the Bay View area just making sure the community is aware of what's going on. How did he get killed? He was shot by a Milwaukee Police Officer 14 times. And a lot of people don't watch the news, don't get home in time for the news, go to bed before the news.

knocking

Woman

I guess he's not wanting no information. The man walked away from the door and went to the window. Oh. Why the Bay View neighborhood? Um... All right, have a good night now. Join hands, everybody.

Group singing

Silent night Holy night All is calm All is bright Round yon virgin Mother and child Holy infant So tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace

Nate Hamilton Jr.

The blood is at the doorstep. The blood is at the doorstep.

Female reporter

And after months of protests, a crucial announcement is expected very soon now. A decision on whether a white Milwaukee Police Officer will be charged in the shooting death of an African American man.

Male reporter

From Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke was to inform people about several what he describes as "Anarchist groups," that they are connected with blockades of the Interstate system.

Khalil Coleman

Y'all go up one ramp, we go up together?

Nate Hamilton Jr.

Yeah, we going that ramp.

Woman

My cell phone's somewhere in here.

horns blaring

Woman

Black lives matter! How many shots? - Fourteen! How many shots? - Fourteen! The cops in the hood? - Ain't no good! Everybody, back in your car! Hey, where's Dontre family? Where's the Coalition for Justice?

sirens

yelling and screaming

Woman

Hands behind your back! Get off me! The sheriff said we could go. The sheriff said we could go. The sheriff said we could leave. He said we could leave, we were leaving. We're in the process of leaving. Anyone that doesn't leave right now is going. We can leave. The sheriff said we could leave. We're leaving. Now you just told them to go. Why did you ####### do that? I'm sorry. What's going on? - We're telling them to go now. It was a show of disobedience, a direct action. And a couple people, well about 50 people was arrested today. Officer, do you know when they're going to let our friends out? I've just come to work. Let us in! Let us in! Let us in! Let us in! Let us in! Let us in! Let us in!

sounds of physical struggle

Woman

Go, go, go, go, go! Back up.

Officer

Everybody back up!

dog barks

Male reporter

Protesters holding an emergency meeting to discuss the arrest of 74 of their peers.

Female reporter

And the sheriff asked the governor to call in the National Guard. Said the National Guard has been talking with Milwaukee Police preparing for any reaction to a charging decision.

Male reporter

You've been told when the final decision will come?

Not at this time. - Woman

No other questions. Alright, if there is anything else, it'll be done in a written statement tomorrow. As far as the highway action was concerned, it was executed as it was planned. Alright, and no one on the highway got arrested. So, I'll let Nate talk about the other parts.

Khalil Coleman

Before you do... Good brother, if I may. The real miscommunication broke down because by the time both groups from Red Arrow got to the highway, you guys were already gone. That's not where we are--

Maria Hamilton

I don't care about none of that right now. We're meeting to discuss the plan. If you don't show up, you don't know. Khalil, stop disrespecting my mama, I'm serious. Stop disrespecting my mama, Khalil! Let my mama talk. Let my mama talk, Khalil. Let my mama talk. She's talking! You're out of order!

Coleman

You don't kick me out of nowhere! Don't even know what going on! You don't kick me out of nowhere!

chaotic yelling

Reporter

Right now the street right outside this courthouse is blocked off by Milwaukee Police as they prepare for this group to gather.

D.A. John Chisholm

Good morning and thank you for coming. The death of Dontre Hamilton is a tragedy for everyone involved. But I cannot be swayed by passion when making these decisions. And after carefully analyzing the investigation, the forensic evidence in the case, the law, I have come to the conclusion that criminal charges are not appropriate in this case. What's significant to know is that-- They stated that he was shot while he was on the ground by more than six people, but he used rubber bands to describe the downward trajectory. Those rounds, essentially, if this is Mr. Hamilton it would be in a downward trajectory. If, however, Mr. Hamilton was on the ground when those shots were fired, you can see the trajectory would generally be ascending at that point in time. Everything the D.A. did was very elementary. And for him to use some rubber bands was, like, "Is this it?" You know, you spent eight months and this is all you have? Again, my obligation is to review the case in light of Wisconsin law. And I've done a detailed analysis of the law of self-defense as it relates... The unique evaluation you do with police officers is whether they had a legitimate objectively reasonable basis to use force. Of obvious concern to everybody, has been the number of shots fired. And the way that the baton was being employed at that time, whether he connected or didn't connect, that's a deadly weapon. And therefore, we wouldn't be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed a crime when he used force.

gun firing

D.A. John Chisholm

Understand,

as well

you can discharge, you know, 15 rounds in under three seconds. Timer recorded 2.99 seconds for all 14 rounds fired. When police officers were equipped with revolvers they had six shots, so they were trained differently. You fire twice and then reassess. Is fourteen shots really necessary to stop an individual? The standard was that they are not allowed to employ force to kill. They are not allowed to use force to wound. They're allowed to employ force to stop the threat. My family. We cried too long. On April 30th, he sized him up and he killed him with intent. And now, he has the mental problem. The whole system has a mental problem.

Crowd

Yes! So, when will we stand up?

crowd chanting

Crowd

Whoose street? - Our streets! Whoose street? - Our streets! Whoose street? - Our streets! Whoose street? - Our streets! Whoose street? - Our streets!

M. Hamilton

Alright, thank you, sweetheart. It was good hearing from you. I'm the a... The district attorney is the wrong person to prosecute the people he worked with so closely. And especially John Chisholm, knowing that he has no history of really charging an officer when it comes to use of force. Hell, we'll just have to go to the federal level. We are going to escalate this battle, as we seek federal intervention and public awareness. Dontre was shot 14 times. Dontre had 21 bullet holes in his body.

Kevin Lewis

It could have been mine. I think that's the sentiment of the president. That's the feeling of the Attorney General.

Famale reporter

And we know of the tragic death of Dontre Hamilton.

chanting

Famale reporter

We go get it! Shut it down!

Hillary Clinton

A young man who should still be with us.

applause

Hillary Clinton

Good afternoon. The Department of Justice,

crowd yells

Hillary Clinton

the U.S. Attorney's Office, has indicated that they are going to go ahead and do a federal investigation.

crowd cheering

Hillary Clinton

We'll be looking forward to that happening.

Female reporter

The officer who shot and killed Dontre Hamilton in Red Arrow Park will soon find out if he's getting his job back.

Male reporter

Former officer Christopher Manney is appealing his firing to the Police and Fire Commission.

Female reporter

Manney has filed for a duty disability retirement so even if he gets his job back would he be back out on the street? Remain standing, sir. Raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear the testimony you're about to give in this hearing will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God? I do. - Be seated. Can you describe for us what bulges you were talking about?

Manney

My main focus was on the right pocket. It stuck out about an inch and a half and it seemed like the entire pocket was filled. Did you think there was a weapon in there? It's suggested that there could be a weapon such as a knife, a blade of glass. I've seen them take glass and shove in between their papers with duct tape. That is the area where that suggested there could be a weapon. Thank you. That's all I have.

Judge

Mr. Thomsen.

Mark Thomsen

So you're ready and able to return to duty right? No, sir. I want to return to duty. The doctors, they say I can't-- But that doesn't hide the fact that I was wrongfully terminated and that I want to be a cop. It's who I am. You said that the bulge in his right pocket led you to be concerned.

Manney

It was a fear. You're like, "He's probably got a weapon in that bulge. It's probably a knife." I don't have X-ray vision, but it sure looks like a knife. And you got the behavior. Those are all things that come into play very rapidly into your assessment. So let's follow what you told the detectives and Mr. Chisholm on April 30th. Is there a mention in this report of any concern about a bulge in a right pocket? No.

in incredulous voice

Manney

Is there any mention in this report of a knife or shards of glass? I don't know, sir. Thank you. That's all I've got to say. Commissioners. - At any time, did Mr. Hamilton make a movement towards his right pocket? No. Thank you. You may step down.

Nate Hamilton Jr.

If we have other officers that act like him then they need to be removed from the force. One thing's for certain that he does not need to be a police officer for the City of Milwaukee ever again. I want to direct your attention to exhibit 136. Did you draft it for officer Manney? I drafted it for a number of officers on the shift, yes. You wanted him to be recognized for meritorious service, right? Yes, I did. During the time you supervised him, did you come to any opinions about officer Manney's work ethic? Yes. - What were those opinions? He was a hard worker. Would you say that officer Manney was one of the best officers you ever supervised? He was one of the best. And if Officer Manney was reinstated today, would you have any problem with him working under your command? I don't believe so. Would you welcome him back? - I would. Thank you. Mr. Manney... If you feel I violated a rule, I understand that. But I ask that you do not terminate me. I wanna be a cop. I've helped people my whole life. It's who I am. You have your evaluations. You have a resume to go to another job. For the Hamilton family all they have is the memories of Mr. Hamilton, right? That would be correct. - No more questions. I am advised that the Commissioner Panel has reached a decision. After proper consideration of all testimony and evidence presented, I do hereby find that Christopher Manney shall be permanently discharged

shouts of joy

Nate Hamilton Jr.

from the Milwaukee Police Department.

applause

Nate Hamilton Jr.

On behalf of everyone involved in this proceeding, I wanna thank the commissioners for your time and your work. Thank you.

Maria Hamilton

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I am sorry to... I am sorry to report that I have just learned from one of my many associates that Christopher Manney was approved for duty disability benefits. At the meeting of the City of Milwaukee Tuesday last week, they had a doctor testify that Christopher Manney was suffering from PTSD and that they were going to honor the decision to give him his total disability and they will be going all the way back a year. They're gonna give him $5,600 a ####### month. What they done was very secretive. You know, these officer's going to receive 75% of his pay, additional $4,000 on top of that, for the rest of his life. And we should be outraged as a community when these type of things happen. Disability for Christopher Manney is ridiculous. It's not just affecting me and my family. But it's affecting our city that we have to pay a cop that was fired and still can receive 75% of his pay. Is this going to be a disruption? Umm, you could call it that.

Megaphone

Good job, you guys. We ain't gonna stop 'til people are free

Officer

We're going to have to take the noisemakers out. We ain't gonna stop 'til people are free Calling out the violence of the racist police We ain't gonna stop 'til people are free Alright, get in their. Let's start locking them up.

Mayor Tom Barrett

It's great to see so many people here tonight to really kick off our holiday season. This is a time that we recognize that we as a community... I got the right to be in that park.

police whistle

Mayor Tom Barrett

What am I under arrest for? This is a public park. You all weak as hell. I could break out of this here-- no problem. That's why y'all shoot people-- That's why y'all shoot people cause y'all so ####### weak. That's what y'all shoot people for. Y'all weak. What if it was your child? Dontre Hamilton!

chanting

Mayor Tom Barrett

Dontre Hamilton! Dontre Hamilton

Crowd

4, 3, 2, 1!

people cheering

Female reporter

Today, we expect to learn whether a former Milwaukee Police Officer, Christopher Manney, will face federal charges. Good morning, and this is where we expect the family of Dontre Hamilton to meet with the U.S. Attorney's Office, as well as with the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division out of Washington, D.C.. They are expecting that a decision will come down as to whether federal criminal civil rights charges will be issued against former Milwaukee Police officer Christopher Manney. Yeah, Erik, they didn't charge his ass. Said there wasn't enough evidence.

Maria

To say willfully-- - That he willfully shot him. Like first-degree murder willfully. Yeah, they had to prove that it was first-degree murder, not intentional or any other thing. That he willfully shot him... And all the other circumstances that led up to him shooting him. Still can't prove intent-- that he willfully shot him.

Male reporter

The U.S. Department of Justice will spend the next two years reviewing every aspect of MPD.

Female reporter

This DOJ review was a request by Chief Flynn. The U.S. Justice Department says the idea

is to improve two things

Trust and relationships between the police and the community. The DOJ says it... And it certainly seems clear to me that the collaborative reform was the best thing to ask for in terms of trying to restore confidence where confidence may have waned, to create confidence where it may not currently exist. We're gonna get this done. We're gonna take our time and we're gonna do it right. Just again, tonight's listening session is a critical element of our assessment in the collaborative reform effort. Rather than field a lot of questions right now, I would rather for people to start coming to the mic and... we can begin. Please do it in an orderly fashion.

clapping, cheering

is to improve two things

I appreciate it. Good evening. My name is Deborah Jenkins. I am the mother of Larry Jerome Jenkins that was murdered in September of 2002. We have gangs within the police department that jump our boys, The Punishers, The Night Train, The Midnight Riders, and you name it. The list goes on and on and on.

There's just always... that black men have to know

Don't go out without your driver's license. Don't wear a hat inside of a car. We gotta look at the police officers, where they came from, how they got here, and why are they in our communities? My name is Nate Hamilton. I'm co-founder of the Coalition for Justice.

cheers and applause

There's just always... that black men have to know

I gave you a copy of the demands that me and the community discussed just yesterday. And the one I want you to particularly look at is number 12. Number 12 says, "There will be consequences." We demand justice, or else. There's gonna be consequences. The Mayor, we coming to you. There's gonna be consequences. The Fire and Police Commission, we coming to you. There's gonna be consequences. District Attorney, we're coming to you. There's gonna be consequences. Because we can't wait 18 months for the Department of Justice, you understand that? We've been waiting too long. Do not move! Do not move! They cannot take us all to jail. They cannot take us all down. They do not have the manpower out here. They cannot take us all.

chaotic crowd sounds

There's just always... that black men have to know

Stay in your houses!

sirens

car stereo blasting N.W.A.'s "#### Tha Police"

There's just always... that black men have to know

I say America was founded on violence. It ain't but look at this gas station right here. For what!?! What are we gonna do?

Megaphone

Refusal to disperse will be in violation of Wisconsin state statute 947.06.

helicopter overhead

Female reporter

Milwaukee Police say a 23-year-old man, was shot and killed by a police officer. This was during a traffic stop. Two suspects fled on foot. Officers chased after them. The officer fired at the suspect. He was hit in the chest and arm and died at the scene. It's a cry out. It's a cry out. You know, that I say been building up for some years here in Milwaukee. I'm gonna bring in a man who is here from the start. This is Sedan Smith. And Sedan tells me he's actually the brother of the victim. Take me through what is going on right now. Right now, you got a city riot going on. Because, once again, the police have failed to protect us like they say they was gonna do. And this is what you get. You got people out here going crazy. We losing loved ones every day to the people that sworn in to protect us. You get a lot of people that's hurt. This is what you get. Either you've taken some loved one from someone. This is what you get.

Reporter

There have been at least six fires that were set, including one that was set at a BP gas station. That building was destroyed

chaotic yelling and sirens

Reporter

I found out about this today because of the rioting in the city last night. When I turn on the news... It is what it is. And this is why we have to support the police and not support nefarious groups like Black Lives Matter.

whistling and applause

Bob Donovan

Last night, chaos descended upon a neighborhood in Milwaukee. And this morning, the rest of the city is left to pick up the pieces and scratch our heads and wonder why.

Governor Scott Walker

What happened last night is completely unacceptable and today I have activated the Wisconsin National Guard.

cheers and applause

Governor Scott Walker

How you doing? Good, good. To burn down something, to them it meant, "Do you hear us now?" Nice to meet you, Nate. I'm Sonia. Nice to meet you. And no one was willing to come out and give them no respect, not no love, not no better education. You know, not nothing. Let's all go up. I want everybody over there on that porch. We need everybody to be a part of this. We're gonna let our hearts come out here and heal the people. We gotta make sure that they have what they need, whether it's mentoring for their children, whether it's schoolbooks for their kids, backpacks, contact. We need to make sure that they don't go without. We're trying to get everybody we can to come out and help clean up the streets. But we also want them to understand that what they do, someone sees. Your neighbor sees you and they might not be as courageous as you, but when they see you, maybe they'll grab their courage and then they come out and they start supporting the effort in cleaning up this city.

"One Love Dontre" by Nate Hamilton Jr., Dameion Perkins, DaShawn Carter, and "Dutch"

Governor Scott Walker

One love My little brother's an angel now And he never gotta worry now Livin' life in the heavens looking down Makin' sure we safe Give anything to see him smiling face He lived life on the verge of everything All he really wanted was his family to have everything Stone macho One of a kind He stood for the family and loved all inside Before he died he was thinking about his family Just a shame we have to face this reality Your death won't stand in the dark We bring it clarity And use your name to start a charity I still dream about you daily Just keep screaming going crazy I need you here I want you here I'm screaming one love I still dream about you daily Just keep screaming going crazy I need you here I want you here I'm screaming one love One love One love is a lifestyle We love hard 'cause we Christ's child 13 representatives for breakfast, lunch, and dinner My passion is shown through my actions Label me, disable me but still can't detach me I know my worth I spread love 'til there's no more hurt I clean the world 'til there's no more dirt I put value on no man's worth I put the clock in reverse And go back to April 30th Could it be my worst thing My brother's gone Shot 14 times You know he didn't do no wrong Laying in the park Really I don't see no wrong The investigation still goin' on The cops ain't told us Shhhh! They hope that we forget they lying If they think that's it Dontre never forget We never will quit One love family 'til we leave this I still dream about you daily Just keep screaming going crazy I need you here I want you here I'm screaming one love One love For more information on The Blood is at the Doorstep go to www.thebloodisatthedoorstep.tv/