A Black Wisconsin police officer said he was killed nearly Saturday after a group of Protestants gathered outside his girlfriend’s house, where he stayed and fired several shots inside.
The confrontation unfolded around 8 p.m., after a group of about 50 to 60 people gathered outside a private residence in Wauwatosa, about 7 miles west of Milwaukee, police said in a statement.
Wauwatosa police officer Joseph Mensah.
(Wauwatosa PD)
Police said it was the home of Wauwatosa police officer Joseph Mensah, but he later wrote on Facebook that the house belonged to his girlfriend.
The protesters started vandalizing the house. Officer Mensah, who was unarmed, tried to enter into a dialogue with the protesters outside, but was physically assaulted, police said.
When Mensah returned to the house, an armed protester fired a single explosion from a gun in the back door.
Mensah later wrote that the window of the gun “missed me by inches.”
“Not once have I ever withdrawn or reflected hatred that was directed at me,” he said. ‘I’m all for peaceful protests, even against me, but this was all beyond peaceful. They threw toilet paper in their trees, broke their windows, and again, shot at both of us as they tried to kill me. ”
Mensah said there were children in the house.
“The irony in all this is that they sang Black Lives Matter all the time, but had zero regard for any of the black children living there like me, a black man,” Mensah wrote.
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Wauwatosa police received help from neighboring departments in breaking up the crowd. An investigation is underway.
Mensah did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
According to Fox 6, Mensah was involved in the shooting deaths of three people while they were in the line of duty. Two of the shootings, one in 2015 and another in 2016, were fairly settled. But Mensah was detained last month for the tragic death of 17-year-old Alvin Cole in February.
The case is still being investigated by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office.
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Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride issued a statement acknowledging that several groups had protested in recent weeks demanding that Mensah be fired over the shooting.
“The city of Wauwatosa has always supported and protected the right to peaceful protest,” McBride said. “Yesterday’s event was not a peaceful protest; it was criminal behavior. If the perpetrators of this criminal behavior are identified, they will be prosecuted throughout the scope of the law. ”
McBride has asked the city police officer and the city manager to hand over ‘Officer Mensah’ of ‘WPD employment’.
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During an interview on ‘The Dan O’Donnell Show’ late last month, Mensah said he had fired his weapon in self-defense, and that he believed he had been stopped from killing Protestants.
