Police: Boy, 13, home alone calls parents about man breaking in. Boy's dad, an off-duty cop, arrives and fatally shoots alleged intruder.



Miami-Dade Police said a 13-year-old boy who was home alone Monday afternoon called his parents about a man trying to break in — and it turns out the boy's father is an off-duty officer with the City of Miami police, WSVN-TV reported.

Well, after Dad arrived at the scene in the 700 block of Southwest 98th Court, the station said he shot and killed the man who allegedly attempted to break into the home.

What are the details?

Miami-Dade Police spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta said the off-duty City of Miami officer shot the man in the home's driveway, WTVJ-TV reported.

"I hear 'Boom, boom, boom, boom,'" neighbor Raul Artiles told WSVN. "Somebody shooting with a pistol, like 10 or 13 times."

Paramedics took the wounded man to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, the station said.

The officer was the only one to fire a weapon, WTVJ reported, adding that detectives said it's unknown if the fatally shot man was armed.

A helicopter hovered over the home where the shooting took place, and WSVN said aerial footage showed blood on what appears to be a family's driveway.

City of Miami Police noted to WSVN that the officer who pulled the trigger is a department veteran.

Image source: WTVJ-TV video screenshot

Presumably referencing the officer's actions, neighbor Orencio Castillo told the station "that's a natural response I would say." Another nearby resident echoed the sentiment to WSVN, calling it "natural."

Christina Carmenate told the station when she heard about what happened, she rushed to the house to provide moral support for her cousin.

"Somebody was trying to break into her house," Carmenate added to WSVN. "She called her ex-husband [who] is a police officer, and there was some type of altercation, and there was a shooting. ... It was an attempted robbery, and the bad person was the one hit."

Artiles told the station he's lived in the "very, very peaceful, very nice" neighborhood for 35 years — and that he's never heard anything like a shooting before.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating, WSVN said.

(H/T: Police Tribune)

Black officer to resign after fatally shooting three minorities in five years. Black Lives Matter mob allegedly shot at officer during August protest.



A black officer from the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Police Department is resigning after fatally shooting three people — all of them minorities — in five years.

The resignation of Joseph Mensah, who's been suspended since July in the wake of his third fatal shooting, is effective Nov. 30, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

What's the background?

The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office ruled all three fatal shootings justified self-defense, including the most recent shooting in February, the paper said.

But Mensah remained suspended after the family of Jay Anderson Jr. — whom Mensah fatally shot in a Wauwatosa park in 2016 — filed a complaint, the Journal Sentinel added.

The paper reported in a previous story that two of the fatally shot individuals were black and the third person shot and killed was Latino/Native American.

Retaliation?

In August, Mensah said protesters chanted "black lives matter" while shooting at him and punching him at his girlfriend's home.

Mensah posted on Facebook that protesters "tried to kill me. I was unarmed and tried to defend my property and the property of my girlfriend. We were both assaulted, punched, and ultimately shot at several times. A shotgun round missed me by inches. Not once did I ever swing back or reciprocate any the hate that was being directed at me. I am all for peaceful protests, even against me, but this was anything but peaceful. They threw toilet paper in her trees, broke her windows, and again, shot at both of us as they were trying to kill me. There are children that live there any the knew that. The irony in all of this is that they chanted Black Lives Matter the entire time, but had zero regard for any of the black children that live there or me, a black man."

Wauwatosa police said between 50 and 60 people gathered at the home to protest Mensah on the night of Aug. 8, where he was physically assaulted and a single shotgun round was fired into the home, the Journal Sentinel noted in another story.

Police added that protesters began to vandalize the home around 8 p.m. and that while Mensah "attempted to establish a dialog," he "was ultimately physically assaulted," the Journal Sentinel said, citing a police department release.

As Mensah went inside, "armed protesters approached the rear door and a single shotgun round was discharged by a member of the group into Officer Mensah's backdoor," the paper added, citing the release.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called the incident "domestic terrorism" and said officials "must take action":

This is domestic terrorism. Local, county, state, and federal officials must take action. https://t.co/YF3ZhIV0bF
— Scott Walker (@Scott Walker)1596996531.0

Three people have since been charged in that incident, the paper said.

Mensah also told WISN-AM that roughly 100 protesters came to his home on the night of July 27, the Journal Sentinel reported in a separate story.

"To call me a murderer, without any conviction, without any charges, and then to do something like this, again, I'm angry, I'm frustrated, I'm confused," he said during the interview, the paper reported.

Mensah added that "it'd be one thing if there was any kind of cause, whatsoever, for my actions. But I defended myself, several times. Proven that I defended myself several times," the Journal Sentinel said.

He also said he believes he was suspended to appease protesters, WITI-TV reported.

"They knew all about this in 2016," Mensah said, according to the station. "They didn't have an issue with it in 2017. They didn't have an issue with it back in 2018. They didn't have an issue in 2019. Now, it's 2020. Let's just suspend him for no reason."

A GoFundMe for Mensah's legal fees set up in mid-July raised over $78,000.

What's been happening lately?

Before Mensah's resignation was announced Tuesday, a hearing before the police and fire commission was scheduled for Dec. 16 in which Mensah would have had the opportunity to regain his job, the Journal Sentinel said.

More from the paper:

The commission was the only panel that could fire Mensah. But others have weighed in throughout the year.

On the same day that Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm cleared Mensah of any criminal wrongdoing in his third fatal shooting, an independent investigator hired by the commission recommended that Mensah be fired.

Steven Biskupic wrote in his report released Oct. 7 that the potential for a fourth fatal shooting by Mensah "creates an extraordinary, unwarranted and unnecessary risk to the Wauwatosa Police Department and the City of Wauwatosa."

He said there was "just cause" for Mensah to be fired since he made "inconsistent and misleading" public statements about the shootings, which violated a department policy and which could compromise his ability to testify in court.

Three months earlier, the common council passed a resolution calling for the removal of Mensah. The next day, the police and fire commission suspended him.

Mensah later filed a lawsuit in Milwaukee County, contesting there wasn't "just cause" for his suspension. Mensah's attorney, Jonathan Cermele, said in advance of the December hearing that Mensah would have been "completely capable" of performing his duties as an officer and that suspending him violates his due process because "one simply cannot be disciplined for an act that has yet to occur."

The city is asking the commission to meet as soon as possible to dismiss the charges pending against Mensah, the Journal Sentinel added.

"Now is the time for all of us to come together and heal," Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride said, according to the paper.

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Two fatally shot in Kenosha overnight as rioters and 'militia' square off in streets



Two people were fatally shot and another was injured by gunfire in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as rioters and "militia" squared off in the streets on the heels of the police-involved shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, on Sunday.

Kenosha police early Wednesday morning said authorities were looking for a man armed with a long gun, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

What are the details?

One victim was shot in the head and another in the chest late Tuesday, just before midnight, Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth told the paper, adding that Beth didn't know where the third person was shot — although video posted to social media showed someone had been shot in the arm.

Police said injuries to the third shooting victim weren't life threatening, the Journal Sentinel reported, adding that the victims' names, ages, and places of residence were still being determined.

The paper said no one has been apprehended, but noted that Beth said he believed at least one person would be taken into custody soon based on video being reviewed.

"I feel very confident we'll have him in a very short time," Beth said, adding that the FBI is assisting police, the Journal-Sentinel reported.

Video posted to Twitter shows at least three people shot.

The paper said a video clip shows a man sprinting into a car lot at 63th Street and Sheridan Road carrying a long gun — and someone pursuing him appears to throw something toward him, and then multiple gunshots are heard.

Another clip posted by BlazeTV's Elijah Schaffer shows a male, who apparently was shot in the head in the aforementioned incident, with a group around him and applying pressure to the wound.

"Call the police!" someone hollers.

BREAKING they shot someone in the head at the #KENOSHA riot RIGHT NOWI repeat someone has been shot in what appea… https://t.co/cgyiSKkxEz
— ELIJAH RIOT (@ELIJAH RIOT)1598417712.0

A video posted by Shelby Talcott of the Daily Caller shows bystanders carrying the person shot in the head to a hospital:

The victim is at the hospital. @RichieMcGinniss is there (he’s okay). Said he believes a second gunshot victim just… https://t.co/0LBcYgcRUy
— Shelby Talcott (@Shelby Talcott)1598418324.0

More from the Journal-Sentinel:

Other videos show a man who seems to be the same man wielding a long gun while running north on Sheridan Road, being pursued by people screaming that he shot someone. He falls to the ground and fires the gun at people who seem to be trying to disarm him. While on the ground, he appears to shoot two of them, one in the torso and another in the arm.

The victim who was shot in the arm ran away from the shooter, bleeding heavily and screaming repeatedly that he needed a medic. More gunshots followed. A bystander who was live-streaming helped the victim with tying a tourniquet around his arm.

The gunman is then seen heading north toward several police tactical vehicles, his arms raised, according to video footage. The tactical vehicles drive by him.
(Warning, Graphic/Violent) A crowd chases a suspected shooter down in Kenosha. He trips and falls, then turns with… https://t.co/vxBAmOy0TK
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@Brendan Gutenschwager)1598422068.0

Beth told the paper it was unclear if there was more than one shooter — but Schaffer posted the following:

CONTEXT: I spoke with the alleged shooter earlier in the night who stated he was there to protect property He did… https://t.co/bQBG7ALvPJ
— ELIJAH RIOT (@ELIJAH RIOT)1598436810.0

Beth also told the Journal-Sentinel that self-described militia members have been patrolling Kenosha's streets in recent nights, but that he didn't know if the shooter was with one.

"They're a militia," Beth added to the paper. "They're like a vigilante group."

On Tuesday, a group called the Kenosha Guard asked members and Facebook followers to come downtown to defend the city, the Journal-Sentinel said, adding that one post read: "Any patriots willing to take up arms and defend out [sic] City tonight from the evil thugs? Nondoubt [sic] they are currently planning on the next part of the City to burn tonight!"

The paper said a later post to Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis read, in part: "I ask that you do NOT have your officers tell us to go home under threat of arrest as you have done in the past. We are willing to talk to KPD and open a discussion. It is evident, that no matter how many Officers, deputies, and other law enforcement officers that are here, you will still be outnumbered."

White protester uses N-word while antagonizing group that showed up with rifles

A video recorded earlier in the evening shows a white protester antagonizing the group that showed up with rifles to ward off rioters. Toward the end of the clip, this individual uses the N-word as he dares the group with guns to "shoot me!" — which runs counter to the mainstream media narrative that white supremacists are behind the deadly violence, as someone from the protesting side openly used racist language in the presence of black people.

The clip in question is the second in the below tweet. (Content warning: Language, racial slurs):

Rioters are getting into confrontations with armed citizens who are out here to prevent looting and destruction to… https://t.co/waOikRHEn7
— Julio Rosas (@Julio Rosas)1598415475.0

More from Schaffer:

This video was take a few yards away from the shooting where you can see the rioters destroying the vehicles https://t.co/LXHMQoIMh4
— ELIJAH RIOT (@ELIJAH RIOT)1598424752.0