Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shootingPosted in Articles, Law, Media Archive, United States on 2015-03-10 01:10Z by Steven |
Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting
The Washington Post
2015-03-08
The Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. — Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed black man, the police chief of Wisconsin’s capital city was praying with the man’s grandmother, hoping to strike a conciliatory tone and avoid the riots that last year rocked Ferguson, Missouri.
Chief Mike Koval said he knows Madison is being watched across the nation since 19-year-old Tony Robinson’s death Friday evening, and he has gone out of his way to avoid what he once called Ferguson’s “missteps.”
“Folks are angry, resentful, mistrustful, disappointed, shocked, chagrined. I get that,” Koval said Saturday. “People need to tell me squarely how upset they are with the Madison Police Department.”
The contrasts with Ferguson are many…
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