Milwaukee Police Are Withholding Information About Their Officer's Recent Deadly Shooting

Milwaukee authorities are refusing to release police body camera footage showing the cop killing of Sylville Smith, a 23-year-old black man, yet law enforcement officials are making public claims to the media about what the video contains. As a result, police are maintaining near total control over the narrative about their own officer’s deadly shooting of a man who is not alive to defend himself. 

Smith was shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer following a traffic stop on Saturday afternoon. The deadly shooting touched off angry protests and rebellion over the weekend, in a city plagued by racial segregation and inequality. Amid the protests, Milwaukee police quickly hit the media circuit to publicize their own spin, claiming that Smith threatened officers with a gun....
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