Thursday, April 03, 2014
Milwaukee: Prosecutors Decline to Charge White Janitor Who Shot to Death Two Trayvons Who were Attempting to Murder Him
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this article.
Ed Flynn’s MPD arrested Jeremy Rossetto, and made him spend two days in jail, simply for the crime of surviving while white. Flynn knew he had no probable cause to arrest Rossetto, who was a crime victim. And imagine if a witness had not filmed the attack on Rossetto on his cell phone? Flynn and DA Chisholm would have sought to Zimmerman Rossetto.
As Journal Sentinel reader retiredfed commented late last night,
The facts of the case were known to MPD from the beginning. The guy should have been sent home and ordered into the D.A 's office as needed and not jailed for two days. Shame on Flynn.
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• Prosecutors won't charge janitor, say he killed teens in self defense
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Prosecutors won't charge janitor, say he killed teens in self defense
By Ashley LuthernThe Journal Sentinel
April 2, 2014, 10:36; updated: 5:25 p.m.
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced Wednesday that Jeremy Rossetto will not be charged in connection with the March 12 shooting death of two [racist black] teens who were [trying to murder him] hitting him with a souvenir baseball bat [more than a dozen times, and had him in a chokehold].
The district attorney's office reviewed the police investigation, interviewed witnesses and viewed witness cellphone video before concluding that Rossetto shot the teens in self defense.
"He's relieved," attorney David Geraghty said of Rossetto, his client. "He's cooperated as much as a person could do in the circumstances."
He said police still have Rossetto's .40 caliber gun and his cell phone.
[In other words, the police have illegally disarmed Rossetto, in order to put his life in further jeopardy, and otherwise endangered and inconvenienced him.]
The investigation found that Rossetto, 39, of Cudahy, went to the apartment building at 1410 N. 27th St. to change some fire extinguishers as part of his job.
While at the apartment building, Rossetto became involved in a verbal confrontation with James Bell, 19; Anmarie Miller, 17; and Clarence Alls, 20, according to the district attorney's statement.
The district attorney's office determined that at one point Bell grabbed Rossetto from behind and pulled him onto the stairs, while Alls punched the janitor at least once and Miller repeatedly hit Rossetto with a small, souvenir baseball bat.
Rossetto drew his gun and shot Miller in the chest as she was hitting him. Seven second later, he shot Bell, who had him in a chokehold.
The district attorney determined that Rossetto believed that his actions were "necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself."
Geraght had told the Journal Sentinel earlier that his client considers it an "occupational necessity" to carry a gun and has a permit to do so.
He also said that Rossetto considered the incident a tragedy and had never used his gun before in a confrontation.
Rossetto was jailed after the shooting on possible homicide charges [on account of being white, even though there was no probable cause to charge him], while Alls was jailed on possible battery charges. Prosecutors are still reviewing the case against Alls and have not made a charging decision.
Geraghty said Wednesday it's his understanding Alls will not be charged, and said that's OK with Rossetto, who just wants the whole process to be over.
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The district attorney got this one right
By James Causey
April 2, 2014 5:17 p.m.
The Journal Sentinel
The janitor who shot and killed two teens who were beating him with a small bat last month will not be charged with their deaths.
This is the right decision, but it still doesn't change the fact that that the March 12 incident was tragic.
Jeremy Rossetto, 39, of Cudahy went to an apartment building in the 1400 block of N. 27th St . to change some fire extinguishers when he became involved in a verbal confrontation with James Bell, 19; Anmarie Miller, 17; and Clarence Alls, 20.
At some point, Bell grabbed Rossetto from behind while Alls punched him at least once and Miller struck Rossetto with a souvenir baseball bat more than a dozen times. Rossetto grabbed his gun and shot and killed Miller and Bell.
Rossetto said he feared for his life. I imagine he was scared but until the cell phone video of the incident is released, there will still be people who doubt what really happened.
I've heard some people argue that Rossetto could have shot the teens in the leg or shot in the air. It's the same argument that you hear in many police-involved shooting cases. I don't really buy it unless someone can prove to me that Rossetto is sharpshooter.
I'm a gun owner and one of my biggest fears is shooting someone to protect myself or my loved ones. I fear what will happen after I fire the shot. Even if a shooting is justified, the shooter has to live with that shooting for the rest of his or her life.
I wrote a column last year that asked the question: Are you safer owning a gun?
I spelled out the different scenarios by talking with an anti-gun advocate. His argument was a good one, but he didn't change my mind: I think I'm safer owning a gun.
In the Rossetto case, having a gun may have saved his life. But I imagine he doesn't feel good about what he had to do.
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19 comments:
Just like Zimmerman this guy is beat to all hell before he has to kill to defend himself.
The north side of Milwaukee where this occurred is almost totally black. They have very generous welfare benefits in Wisconsin and for a period of decades negroes from Chicago had gotten the message and moved to Milwaukee.
Milwaukee used to be an almost exclusively white area but has not been for a long time.
A verbal confrontation.
What they mean is that the whitey was being harassed by the negroes.
All sorts of intimidating language, foul language of an extreme [yo' mama] insulting nature, threats, etc.
The man carried the weapon as an occupation necessity. OH, you bet.
I might suggest he has had other bad experiences.
Or has friends that had bad experiences.
Most of the time for a whitey to even enter into an all negro area is very dangerous.
Three against one. And being attacked without provocation. Even if the thugs were barely armed as these three negroes were, the number of attackers creates a lethal force situation.
Those souvenir baseball bats are larger than a police baton. In the hands of a strapping negro thug it is a deadly weapon. Grave bodily harm can be inflicted with such a weapon.
That whitey man is lucky someone made a video of the incident. Otherwise HE WOULD BE CHARGED WITH MULITPLE MURDERSD AND POSSIBLY HATE CRIMES FOR SHOOTING DOWN THE NEGROES.
ONLY that there were many more incidents like this where the negro thug gets a lesson administered.
Of course, most would just ignore the lesson. They never do good in "school".
The cops felt compelled because of the Treyvons incident to keep the whitey man locked up while they did the investigation. If they had not done so they would have gotten a lot of heat.
You wait and see, this has not ended, there probably will be demonstrations and such.
This is the perfect case of a person using a firearm concealed [?] with permit to protect himself. That man would be either dead or very badly injured. The NRA needs to use this as a "type specimen" to promote their cause.
Since this was a clear cut case of self defense, and yet the man was locked up for two days, a major civil suit is called for.
One of the assailants was named Anmarie? Anmarie is a male or a female? With them it is so hard to tell.
One of the assailants is not going to be charged? Well, they were going to kill or injure the man and yet not charged. Those three were acting as a group.
Tragic. They use that word a lot. So tragic. If the thugs had not done what they did it would not have been so tragic. NOT tragic.
They had the case in Milwaukee of Darius the negro kid 13 years old shot and killed by the whitey neighbor.
It seems the whitey man had mistaken thoughts about Darius and did shoot and kill Darius.
Lots of shootings of negroes by whitey in Milwaukee
Ah, those "teens" again. The MPD arrested Jeremy Rosetto for political reasons and undoubtedly knew it would turn out as it did.
David In TN
The "civil rights" groups are going to marshal their forces on this one. I hope not. But I bet something is going to happen. We will have wait and see. Al and Jesse are chomping at the bit.
I do not recall this incident being carried by the main stream media at all.
They got some sense after the Treyvons shooting?
Perhaps they did.
"But I imagine he doesn't feel good about what he had to do."
Typical liberal response.
Better to be alive and be able to ask yourself if you did the right think than be dead and not be able to think at all.
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