Author: Wisconsin Public Radio

Four people have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager charged with killing two protesters and wounding a third during the protests in Kenosha that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake in August. Other defendants in the lawsuit are Facebook, two militia groups, and two other people the plaintiffs say were involved in militia actions during the protests. The suit, filed on September 22 in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, claims Rittenhouse, the militia groups, the individuals and the platform they used to organize their patrols of Kenosha protests all violated the plaintiffs’...

Milwaukee Independent · Alvin Cole Announcement – No Charges for Officer Mensah Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced on October 7 that there would be no charges against Wauwatosa Police Officer Joseph Mensah for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Alvin Cole earlier this year. Mensah fatally shot Cole outside Mayfair Mall on February 2. During the incident, authorities said that Cole ran from the police and fired first before he was shot. Cole’s family disputes that he fired the gun. Cole’s family met with Chisholm privately before the decision was announced publicly outside the Milwaukee County Safety Building....

A Wisconsin activist arrested in Kenosha and held on charges she broke curfew is part of a lawsuit that accuses the Kenosha police of selectively enforced the city’s curfew, targeting those protesting police brutality while ignoring violations by pro-police activists. Adelana Akindes, 24, was arrested on August 26 as she and several other activists left their home after the city’s 7:00 p.m. curfew to join protests against the August 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake. She was one of dozens of protesters arrested and held, and her arrest gained attention in part because the group was picked up by...