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MPD releases video of gas station police shooting in accordance with new video release policy
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MPD releases video of gas station police shooting in accordance with new video release policy

Police body camera video released Thursday shows the moments Milwaukee officers exchanged gunfire with a man at a gas station July 17. The release comes 15 days after the shooting took place, in accordance with a new body camera release policy the Milwaukee police department adopted the same day.Milwaukee police said officers responded to the Citgo gas station near Sherman Boulevard and Capitol Drive around 10:30 p.m. July 17, looking for 22-year-old Jayuntae Gregory.According to a criminal complaint, Gregory was wanted for shooting two of his family members in their home one day prior.Surveillance video from inside the gas station shows Gregory standing at the counter before police show up. Gregory retreats to the back of the gas station moments before police enter and tell him to put his hands up. “Hey show me your hands! Show me your hands right now!” officers can be heard saying in the video.At that moment, gunfire erupts inside the gas station. Milwaukee police said Gregory shot first, and one of the officers inside returned fire. Body camera video shows officers retreat outside the gas station in a standoff with Gregory for about six minutes. Bystanders inside the gas station run for cover. Then, the video shows Gregory running outside and shooting at the police again. Officers shot back, wounding Gregory, before approaching and arresting him on the ground in the parking lot.Gregory now faces seven charges, including three charges of attempted first-degree intentional homicide.WISN 12 News obtained the police video Thursday, 15 days after the shooting took place due to MPD’s new video release policy standard operating procedure (SOP) 575. The policy requires the department release video of critical incidents, like this one, to the public within 15 days. If someone dies, MPD must show family the video within 48 hours. The policy was just put into effect after being held up in the courts. The Milwaukee Police Association, the union that represents most of the city’s officers, sued to stop the policy more than one year ago. But, July 17, the Association dropped the lawsuit. City officials in a meeting with Milwaukee’s Fire and Police Commission said MPD enacted the policy that same day.”It didn’t make sense to us to keep using resources from the union just to have a chief come and write that same policy all over again. So we thought this was a good time just to release it,” said Andrew Wagner, the recently retired president of the Milwaukee Police Association.

Police arrest Wisconsin fugitive in Iowa after 30 years on the run [Video]
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Police arrest Wisconsin fugitive in Iowa after 30 years on the run [Video]

A man riding his bike in West Des Moines, Iowa, wasn’t who he told police he was. West Des Moines police pulled him over for not having a rear reflector on his bicycle on June 26. “Greg Stallins is your name?” An officer asked.”Gregory Stallins,” the man responded.The officer let him go, after not being able to figure out who he was. The name and social security number given matched up to a guy who died years ago. A few minutes later, police pulled him over again, and more officers showed up.”Alright brother, time to be honest with me,” the officer can be heard saying on body camera video. “The info you gave me comes back to a dead guy. Gregory Stallins is dead.”The man finally gave his real name, George Hartleroad. Hartleroad had been on the run since 1995 after he left a halfway house in Madison. Hartleroad was convicted of holding a woman at knifepoint and ordering her to perform sex acts on him. Records show he tied her up, put her in the trunk of her own car, and later tied her to a tree in rural Chippewa County. The woman was found by two other women jogging in a rural area, the criminal complaint states. Hartleroad was convicted of false imprisonment, possession of a short-barreled rifle and endangering safety by conduct regardless of life. Records show he served nine years for the 1983 crime. He failed to return to a halfway house in Madison in July 1995.”None of us are mad at you,” a West Des Moines officer told him. “I’m just baffled that law enforcement has let you go for thirty years.””I’m delighted he’s been captured,” said Bill Glass, lead investigator on the 1983 case for the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office. “I’m surprised he was still alive.”Retired Sheriff’s Deputy Glass said he plans to call the Iowa officers to thank them.”This is what good police work is,” he said. “When things don’t check out, don’t just give up. Keep digging.”Police arrested Hartleroad on June 26 in West Des Moines and extradited him to the Dane County Jail in Madison.”I will jump again, as soon as they turn me loose,” he told police during the arrest. “They’ve been up in my (expletive) for 30 41 years on a nine-year sentence.””He has been served with papers informing him that the Department of Corrections intends to revoke his community supervision,” said Beth Hardtke, Wisconsin DOC director of communications.DOC did not answer questions on how long Hartleroad will be in jail, or if he’d face more charges.