On April 30, 2014, Dontre Hamilton was shot and killed by police officer Christopher Manney, at Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
As a result of the shooting and subsequent protests, Milwaukee police officers were equipped with body cameras.
[3] The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel summarized the events as follows:[3] Before the encounter, a pair of officers responding to a call that Hamilton was asleep in the park checked on him twice and found he was doing nothing wrong.
In December 2014, District Attorney John Chisholm found the use of force to be in self-defense and declined to prosecute.
[12] Dontre's brother, Nate Hamilton, has also since co-founded the Coalition for Justice, an organization that has led rallies, marches, and street clean-ups.
[13] In the aftermath of Hamilton's death, "Hamilton's family members worked with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the Police Department and other city leaders to have all officers receive Crisis Intervention Team training, considered the gold standard for working with people in psychiatric crisis, by 2017.