One day after it was announced that charges would not be brought against a white police officer who shot a black man in Milwaukee, the Department of Justice will review the case.
The Associated Press noted that the DOJ is set to investigate the shooting death of Dontre Hamilton by former police officer Christopher Manney.
As previously reported, on Monday, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said that charges would not be brought against Manney, who was fired from the department for the shooting in October.
Hamilton was shot 14 times by the officer last April after a business near a park complained about him sleeping on a bench there.
An internal affairs investigation concluded that other officers checked on Hamilton, who suffered from schizophrenia and found no wrongdoing on his part. Later, however, Manney, unaware that other officers had already been to the park, checked on Hamilton and patted him down. According to the investigation, the two men began to struggle with one another and Hamilton got ahold of the officer’s baton and hit him with it. Manney then shot him multiple times.
While at a press conference, members of the Hamilton family asked for peaceful protests to continue, but the his brother Nate, spoke angrily against police officers.
"We need to stop the violence in our communities so we can get rid of these pigs that kill us," he said to applause. "Because that's what they are. They feed, they feed off of us. And we can't let them do that no more."