JUST IN: Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson Speaks To Reporter After Police Fatally Shoot Man Near RNC

Cavalier Johnson is the mayor of Milwaukee how you doing sir uh obviously a tough video to watch but as you understand it what do you think played out there on that video uh as you were mentioning the officers from Columbus uh they were doing a briefing before the day's uh activities here um and while doing that briefing so not necessarily patrolling just catching up with each other um what happened was they one of the officers noticed that an individual had not just one knife but two knives right and then proceeded to yell out to that individual to drop the knives drop the knives because he was confronting another uh person on the street officers uh then rushed towards that individual continuing to say drop the knife drop the knife don't engage you know essentially uh and he disobeyed the officer's commands um and then proceeded to Lunge at the individual with two knives there has been some criticism because they weren't Milwaukee Police Officers but as you were explaining they were doing uh a routine sort of gathering and then happen to come upon this what's your reaction to just sort of the anger around this right now I understand where some of the anger uh has come from because they were not local police officers but in my conversations with officers including local police officers any officer any officer in that same situation where they witness somebody who's going to cause death or serious bodily harm to somebody with a gun or in this case with a knife not just one knife but two knives would have taken the exact same acts to preserve life uh very quickly Donald Trump did call you yesterday he did what did he say uh Mr Trump was uh very gracious uh in his call he wanted to talk about the security and how pleased he was with that that was that's what the call was about thank you so much for your time thank you Kate back to you

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Published: Wed Jul 17 2024