A Madison police officer shot and killed a man who had injured him with a knife while resisting arrest, the city’s police chief said Wednesday. The incident occurred on a city street in a popular neighborhood near the state Capitol.
According to Madison Police Chief John Patterson, the suspect was attempting to enter parked vehicles in the neighborhood and fled on a bike when officers approached him. The suspect either fell off his bike or was taken off by officers and during the struggle pulled out a knife, injuring an officer.
An officer deployed a taser, but it was unsuccessful. The same officer who was injured by the knife fired his weapon, and the man who was shot died later at the hospital. The Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation will investigate the shooting.
Community Reaction
A crowd formed near the scene, with people chanting, ‘Arrest the cops!’ Advocates for the Black community in Madison said the man killed was Black, and the head of the Madison-based Black community advocacy group Urban Triage expressed sympathy for the man’s family.
Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.
