WI Attorney General Says No Early Release of Milwaukee OIS Video

Body camera footage of a fatal police shooting that sparked rioting in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood will not be released until the Milwaukee County district attorney makes a charging decision, Attorney General Brad Schimel said Monday.

Schimel said the body camera footage would not answer all the questions about what happened during the interaction that led to the fatal police shooting. The release of the footage could compromise the investigation, he said.

Three officers were on the scene quickly and two of them were wearing body cameras; those officers have not viewed any of the footage, he said. All three have undergone initial interviews and were cooperative, he said.

“The investigation is ongoing and it is done only when the prosecutor is satisfied that the investigators have given them all we can," Schimel told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel . "That means until a charging decision is final there could always be follow-up.”