{"id":129607,"date":"2021-06-21T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=129607"},"modified":"2021-06-21T21:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:02:58","slug":"judge-delays-charging-decision-for-wisconsin-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/judge-delays-charging-decision-for-wisconsin-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge delays charging decision for Wisconsin officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
MILWAUKEE — A judge has delayed his decision on whether to go around prosecutors and charge a Wisconsin police officer who killed a man sitting in a parked car.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Glenn Yamahiro was expected to decide Friday whether to charge Joseph Mensah in Jay Anderson Jr.’s death five years ago.<\/p>\n
But Anderson family attorney Kimberley Motely said Monday that Yamahiro has pushed the decision back to July 28. A message left at Yamahiro’s chambers on Monday wasn’t immediately returned.<\/p>\n
Mensah shot Anderson in 2016 after he found Anderson sleeping in his car after hours in a Wauwatosa park. He said he fired when Anderson reached for a gun on the passenger seat.<\/p>\n
Anderson was the second of three people Mensah killed during a five-year stint with the Wauwatosa Police Department. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm cleared Mensah of criminal wrongdoing in each case.<\/p>\n
Anderson’s family invoked a rarely used grand jury-like proceeding known as a John Doe in hopes of getting a judge to charge Mensah directly. The process has a judge listening to witness testimony to decide whether enough probable causes exists to justify charges.<\/p>\n