WAUWATOSA, Wis. — A jury is expected to reach a verdict Thursday afternoon in a federal civil case against a former Wauwatosa police officer.
Joseph Mensah killed three people of color in the span of five years.
All of the shootings were ruled justified. However, the parents of Alvin Cole, a teenager who was among those killed, filed the civil rights lawsuit alleging that Mensah used excessive force and that the department he worked for "embraces and promotes" racism.
Cole was shot during a foot chase outside a mall in February 2020.
Watch: Verdict expected in case against former Wauwatosa officer
Before that, Mensah shot and killed Antonio Gonzales in 2015 after Gonzales refused to drop a sword, and Jay Anderson Jr., who had been sleeping in a park after hours in 2016 and was armed with a handgun.
Mensah resigned from the Wauwatosa Police Department in 2020 after collecting a severance payment. He is now working for the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department.
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