A Black Wisconsin police officer said on Wednesday that he was “100 percent” convinced he was “shot” after a group of protesters gathered outside his girlfriend’s home, while a Democratic state representative, who after the protest was, challenges that claim.
Wauwatosa police officer Joseph Mensah told “Fox & Friends” that he was with his girlfriend on Saturday, and helped her move, when protesters jumped on the U-Haul truck he parked behind the house and were “breaking windows” . ”
Police said a group of about 50 to 60 people gathered outside the private residence in Wauwatosa, about 7 miles west of Milwaukee, and began vandalizing the house.
“We went outside to get quite a lot to stop them and when we did, it was when I was attacked and my girlfriend was attacked,” Mensah said. “I went back to the house while we were trying to get inside the house and we were attacked again after they followed us with weapons and that is when the shot happened.”
Mensah wrote in a statement on Facebook on Sunday that the round 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“Not once have I ever withdrawn or reflected hatred that was directed at me,” he said.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.
Wauwatosa police received help from neighboring departments in breaking up the crowd and an investigation is underway.
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 arrested last month for the tragic death of 17-year-old Alvin Cole in February, according to the television station, which added that the case is still being investigated by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office.
On Wednesday, Mensah told “Fox & Friends” that the protests at his girlfriend’s house “lasted the last few weeks.”
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. “
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McBride has asked the city police officer and the city manager to “transfer” Mensah from WPD employment. 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.
Democratic state rep. David Bowen said Mensah fabricated elements of violence outside his girlfriend on Saturday, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Bowen said he believes Mensah “cannot [sic] be trusted to tell the truth ”and called the account of how the gun was fired“ the biggest lie. Bowen claims that Mensah “opted for a protest with a protest” and pulled the trigger on that person’s gun.
‘Nobody tried to kill him or his girlfriend. That is not true. No one tried to enter his house. That is not true. No more shots were fired. Another lie. No protests took place at the back door, “Bowen wrote.
In response, Mensah told “Fox & Friends” that “there is a version of events that I have and that there is a version that he has all based on our own perspectives.”
‘Whether you want to believe my perspective or not, or his perspective or not, it does not change the fact and there are facts and there are [sic] proof in this case that my version of events supports and does not support his, ”Mensah continued.
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Host Brian Kilmeade asked Mensah if the situation he is in at the moment makes him decide on his decision to get into law enforcement.
“Not at all,” Mensah said in response. “I knew exactly where I was signing up.”
“We register here to protect people, to serve people. “Unfortunately, my city did not allow me to do this,” he continued.
Fox News’ Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
