Police Officer Who Resigned After Fatal Shootings Hired as Sheriff's Deputy (a couple counties over)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/us/wisconsin-deputy-sheriff-fatal-shootings.html

A former police officer in Wauwatosa, Wis., who shot and killed three people during his tenure and resigned following protests last year, became a law enforcement officer again on Monday when he was sworn in as a deputy sheriff just across the county line.

The deputy, Joseph Mensah, resigned from the Wauwatosa Police Department in November. He now works for the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office, which announced the hiring in a statement on Tuesday.

“While some have expressed concerns about Mr. Mensah’s past uses of force, I assembled a team who exhaustively reviewed Mr. Mensah’s previous work history,” the Waukesha County sheriff, Eric Severson, said in the statement.

That team, he said, concluded that Mr. Mensah’s uses of force had been consistent with the law, as did a handful of internal and independent investigations last year.

[ResistantAmerican17]

2. Police found police did every thing by the book. Shocked I say!!!!

[Chainfire]

3. Then the book is most likely wrong.

[Solly Mack]

4. Police Stations swap around bad officers like the Catholic Church swaps around pedophile priests.

Because, you know, the trigger happy kill-kill-kill police always change in a new setting. Just like pedophile priests.

All they need is a new place and, like magic, they become better people.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Surely they've learned their lessons and can start afresh!

Which is of course exactly what they do.

[Solly Mack]

9. Yep. New victims and fresh dead bodies.

[BComplex]

5. In other words: "we're nazis too, and we're happy to have him".

WTF is wrong with this country?

[dragonlady]

7. Now that you mention it

Waukesha County is dominated by Republicans.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. when the rodney king beatings went down and officers from the lapd

got fired , we wound up with their trash. should be a national database of these officers and they should never hold a badge or gun again , including being a security gaurd .