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]]>Milwaukee and Minneapolis have seen the biggest surge in murders so far this year compared with other major cities nationwide, more than doubling the number of homicides reported during the same time in 2019, according to data compiled by Fox News.
Milwaukee, Wis., saw a 120% increase in murders from Jan. 1 to Aug. 13 compared with the same time in 2019, statistics obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel show. The city saw 101 murders over the course of the eight-month period, compared with the 46 reported during the same time in 2019, the outlet reported.
Meanwhile, Minneapolis saw the second-highest spike, with a 114% increase in homicides since the beginning of the year until Aug. 12. Forty-five murders were reported during that time this year, compared with the 21 reported during the same period in 2019, according to data compiled from the Minneapolis Police Department.
A protester holds a newspaper in front of the Minneapolis police standing guard against protesters at the Third Precinct as people protest the arrest and death of George Floyd on May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
Both cities have recently made headlines, starting at the end of May, with the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police. Floyd, who is Black, died after a white police officer held his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd repeatedly shouted that he could not breathe.
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Floyd’s death led to protests and demonstrations throughout the country calling for an end to police brutality and systemic racism.
Milwaukee’s former police chief, Alfonso Morales, who was demoted to captain last week, announced Wednesday he would retire instead of staying with the department.
Officials had criticized how Morales handled multiple incidents involving Black people, including the arrest of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown. They were also critical of his decision to use tear gas and pepper spray against protesters.
Protesters gather near the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct to watch a construction site burn in the days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. May 28, 2020. (REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi)
In some cities, including Minneapolis, members of the public turned to rioting, looting stores and starting fires in the wake of Floyd’s death. Other areas, such as Portland, Ore., have continued to protest and riot for more than 75 days, at times going so far as exploding fireworks at government property and police officers and shooting lasers into the eyes of law enforcement agents, according to multiple reports.
Austin, Texas, reported the third-highest murder surge out of U.S. big cities, with a 64% increase in homicides between the beginning of the year and June 30, compared with the 14 recorded in 2019, according to Austin PD.
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Chicago, Ill., was fourth, with 461 murders as of Aug. 9 – a 54% increase from the 300 reported during that period in 2019, according to the police department.
Chicago Police shell casing markers are seen, where a 37-year-old man riding a bicycle was shot and pronounced dead at the hospital, at the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., July 26, 2020. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)
By the end of June, the average murder rate for 20 big cities had increased 37% percent compared with the end of May, the New York Times reported, citing University of Missouri-St. Louis criminologist Richard Rosenfeld.
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The recent flare in protests was accompanied by calls for police departments to be defunded, or for portions of their budgets to be reallocated in ways that would benefit communities of color.
A Police Executive Research Forum, first reported by USA Today, found that out of the 258 police departments polled, almost half have had their budgets cut.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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]]>Milwaukee police have released photos of a suspect in the shooting death last week of a Rastafarian community fixture who was a supporter of President Trump.
Bernell Trammell, 60, was killed Thursday afternoon, shocking those who knew him as a peaceful man. The murder prompted calls from leading Wisconsin Republicans for a federal probe to determine if the killing had to do with his politics.
Trammell was shot in front of signs he had put in a storefront window expressing his support for Trump’s reelection.
Milwaukee police have made no arrests in the case.
“This incident is still under investigation and the motive of this homicide is still under determination,” they tweeted Monday.
The photos were taken from surveillance cameras near Trammell’s storefront.
Police said the man being sought was a 200 pound 6-footer in his 30s. The photos show him wearing a white and red baseball cap, a black mask covering the lower portion of his face, a black and red long sleeve shirt with white writing on the front, white or light-colored pants, black socks and white shoes.
Image shows the person police say is was wanted in the shooting of Bernell Trammell, a Rastafarian community fixture in Milwaukee who supported the reelection of President Trump.
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Two of the photos show the man riding a bicycle, which police said was his “mode of transportation.”
Trammell was often seen carrying around handmade signs about politics and religion — and was ready to engage passersby in conversation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday.
Bernell Trammell, 60, was a familiar figure in the Milwaukee neighborhood where he lived.
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Wisconsin GOP Chairman Andrew Hitt issued the call for a federal probe saying with the general election 99 days away and a primary in two weeks, it is imperative that the community knows if Trammell’s murder was politically motivated,
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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., offered condolences to Trammell’s family in a tweet that also said, “I hope they get answers and justice soon,” WISN-TV reported.
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]]>A Milwaukee homicide victim has been identified as a well-liked fixture of the city’s Black community who supported Black Lives Matter and President Trump.
Bernell Trammell, 60, was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in front of a storefront with signs in the window supporting Trump’s reelection. according to reports. He ran a small business from the storefront.
A makeshift memorial grew in size at the spot where he was killed, according to Fox 6 Milwaukee.
“The guy was just full of love,” Dick Nelson said, according to the station.
His last known conversation was with a blogger on the morning of the shooting.
Bernell Trammell, 60, was gunned down in from of his Milwaukee storefront Thursday afternoon.
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The chat with Adebisi Agoro took place as Trammell held a sign that said “Wisconsin Vote Donald Trump 2020,” the station reported.
“He’s just a community figure,” Agoro told the station. “I respected him just because he had a position…He’s got his opinion on why he feels that way; and I’m not going to knock him.”
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel quoted Reggie Moore, director of Milwaukee’s Office of Violence Prevention, as saying that he recently intervened in a dispute between Trammell and a young man.
Moore thought the incident was related to a Trump sign that Trammell was carrying, the paper reported.
“He’s a Black elder who didn’t deserve to die the way that he did,” Moore said.
Milwaukee police don’t have a lot of information—or a motive, Fox 6 reported.
That didn’t stop Andrew Hitt, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, from raising the possibility that the shooting could be politically motivated.
He called on federal prosecutors in Milwaukee to investigate in a statement.
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“No American should fear for their personal safety because of where they live or their political affiliation,” Hitt said.
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An election official in Kenosha, Wis., with a citizen on April 7. Close-by Milwaukee says it’s tape-recorded a minimum of seven coronavirus cases associated with the state’s controversial decision to progress with in-person voting.
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An election authorities in Kenosha, Wis., with a voter on April 7. Nearby Milwaukee states it’s taped a minimum of 7 coronavirus cases related to the state’s questionable choice to progress with in-person voting.
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At least 7 people might have become contaminated with the coronavirus as an outcome of Wisconsin’s controversial decision to go forward with in-person ballot for its April 7 election, Milwaukee’s top public health officer stated Monday.
” As of today, we have identified 7 people that contracted, or at least it appears, COVID-19 through election-related activities,” said Jeanette Kowalik, the city’s health commissioner.
Six cases were citizens and one was a poll employee.
Kowalik’s office said it was tracking individuals who voted in-person or worked as a poll worker when detecting new coronavirus cases in the city. The workplace hopes to have more complete information about brand-new cases potentially tied to the election by Friday or next week.
The city’s report follows the 14- day duration throughout which coronavirus symptoms generally emerge.
Approximately 400,000 people enacted person after the state Supreme Court rebuffed efforts by Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, to move in-person ballot to June. Republican leaders in the state legislature also turned down Evers’ efforts to perform the election entirely by mail.
Preliminary turnout data recommends that more than two-thirds of voters cast absentee ballots and that total turnout was in line with past presidential-year elections.
Lots of election officials and voting-rights supporters fear similar turmoil on a nationwide scale this November if states don’t move strongly to broaden vote-by-mail alternatives.
If the Wisconsin election is found to have actually resulted in a considerable number of fresh coronavirus transmissions, it’s likely to add fuel to the dispute about how to securely carry out the fall tally.
” We have actually not yet seen indications of an impact from the election,” said Andrea Palm, the state Department of Health Solutions secretary-designee.
Vice President Pence is making an unusual official check out Tuesday to Madison, the state capital, to check out a GE Health care facility that’s making ventilators.
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Milwaukee authorities indicated strong support for the extension of the guv’s stay-at-home order Thursday, as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to more than 2,000 in the county and the death toll surpassed100
” We can never let these numbers end up being an abstraction,” Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele stated. “These are people and lives.”
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy and Brown Deer Village President Wanda Montgomery joined Abele in an online news briefing advising citizens to continue staying at home to stop the spread of the respiratory infection.
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” It’s important that we support each other through this. Wash your hands. Make certain that you do not go out when it’s not necessary,” stated Montgomery, who noted Brown Deer has a number of hot spots.
” We still have individuals that are going out,” she stated, mentioning examples of moms and dads and kids going to school home to play basketball, and adding: “We’ve got to do better.”
The state order suggests school is out for the rest of the scholastic year, while numerous organisations will remain closed up until May 26, the day after Memorial Day.
” We understand that this is causing economic difficulty,” Barrett stated. “All you have to do is look at the unemployment claims and see the difficulties that small businesses are having and I am really considerate to that.”
Under the new state rules, golf courses might open and even services not considered essential will be permitted to carry out minimum operations such as deliveries and mailings.
” We’re not going to open the golf courses until it is 100%safe to do so,” Abele stated.
” I would enjoy to have the earnings,” he stated of opening the county links. ” I ‘d like to have the earnings that we get from the beer gardens, but the issue here is about security and that is constantly the top priority and it absolutely has actually come at an expense.”
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The county already made modifications in action to the financial fallout, including freezing brand-new hiring, delaying all raises and bonuses, and preparing to furlough about 200 seasonal staff members, Abele stated.
Signs of ‘flattening the curve’ in Milwaukee County
Although the county case stats stay troubling, there is reason for careful optimism.
The rate at which cases are doubling is now about every eight days, much slower than the one- or two-day doubling seen when infection very first took hold in the county, said Greenfield Health Officer Darren Raush.
” That is an indication that we are approaching flattening the curve, we are approaching that peak,” Raush stated.
Officials concurred expanded screening is an essential factor needed to ensure public health and permitting companies to safely resume.
” What I want to see is more community screening that will permit us to go to a few of these areas that are truly locations and do more screening in these locations, a number of which are not served by hospitals, doctors or offices,” Barrett said.
He referenced the efforts of Madison-based Specific Sciences, which is associated with a state collaboration to develop test kits for COVID-19 modeled on its existing at-home tests for markers of colon cancer.
” I want us to deal with the state of Wisconsin, with Precise Sciences, and see what we can do, not in weeks, however literally in days, to bring those test sets here, so that they can be executed in our community,” Barrett said.
COVID-19 updates from throughout Wisconsin
Coronavirus has touched every part of life, from the legal system to schools — and often both at the same time.
A high school trainee in Marquette County has actually sued her local sheriff after he threatened to take her or her family to jail for her post on Instagram warning that she thought she had contracted coronavirus.
The sophomore became ill after a spring break trip to Florida with her marching band and checked unfavorable for the virus. According to the lawsuit, medical professionals stated she likely was positive but tested too late.
An attorney for the constable stated the teenager “triggered distress and panic” sometimes when the county had no verified COVID-19 cases, calling the occurrence “absolutely nothing more than a 2020 variation of screaming fire in a crowded theater” in reference to speech that is not secured by the First Modification.
Statewide, the Department of Health Providers has reported 3,875 confirmed cases, consisting of 3 in Marquette County, and 197 deaths. More than 1,100 people have been hospitalized since the state began screening.
The pandemic has resulted in organizations adjusting and discovering more methods to return.
Although schools will remain closed for the rest of the year, the WIAA continued to discuss options for high school sports in the spring and summer.
The Wisconsin Bike Fed began a petition requiring low-traffic streets to be closed to cars and trucks and trucks to allow more room for pedestrians and bicyclists who need to maintain social range.
And Plymouth-based Sargento Foods revealed it is contributing $2 million in cheese– which equates to 15.8 million cheese sticks — to the Hunger Task Force in Milwaukee and the national food bank Feeding America.
” We want to do our part to deal with the growing problem of appetite and food insecurity throughout these difficult times,” Louie Gentine, the family-owned business’s president, said.
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