MILWAUKEE (WITI) — Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn has announced the firing of Officer Christopher Manney for his handling of Dontre Hamilton when the two met in Red Arrow Park on April 30th. 31-year-old Hamilton was shot and killed during a struggle that occurred with Manney.
Chief Flynn said Wednesday, October 15th he signed an order, terminating Officer Manney from the Milwaukee Police Department — but Chief Flynn says his reason for firing Manney wasn’t his deadly use of force, but rather, the events leading up to it.
http://fox6now.com/2014/10/15/breaking-mpd-fires-police-officer-who-fatally-shot-dontre-hamilton/
Police Chief Edward Flynn fired Officer Christopher Manney, 38, on Wednesday, saying he believed the officer had wrongly instigated a fight that eventually led Manney to shoot 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton 14 times, killing him. Manney had responded to a call for a welfare check because Hamilton was sleeping in the park.
Hamilton had schizophrenia and had recently stopped taking his medication.
The police union on Thursday released a written account Manney gave Flynn in which the officer said he found Hamilton on the ground with “one leg bent at the knee and rapidly twitching back and forth. No other body parts were moving.”
Hamilton opened his eyes as Manney approached, fixing him with an unblinking stare “that made (me) feel as if he was looking through me and wanted to hurt me,” the officer wrote.
Manney said he concluded that Hamilton was either mentally ill or under the influence of drugs or alcohol. He also thought Hamilton appeared homeless.
http://thegrio.com/2014/10/16/dontre-hamilton-officer-fired-shooting/
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