Yet it still brought protests...I'm the last to defend cops but this was clearly self defense.
And black cop/black victim ensured no real media coverage outside the local area.
From a mother’s worried call to a crying officer, new video and documents reveal circumstances around fatal Sheboygan police shooting
https://www.sheboyganpress.com/story...th/3306376001/
6 August 2020
Matt Piper Sheboygan Press
SHEBOYGAN — Bryan Pray gasped for air as a fellow police officer got out of her car and ran toward him, the body of a Sheboygan man lying between them on the 15th Street pavement.
"Yo, he chased me, man, with these knives!" Pray shouted. "Bro! He chased me, man!"
"He charged me, man!" he repeated. "I almost fell!"
"Hey, it's OK," the officer told him. "Take a breath."
Pray did, and helped the officer roll the man over so she could perform CPR before insisting, again, that the man had charged him. Then he began to cry.
Department of Justice body camera footage and documents released Wednesday show the shooting death of 32-year-old Sheboygan resident Kevan Ruffin on July 2, as well as the moments leading up to it, when Pray called out to Ruffin with familiarity — "Hey, Ruffin" — and after, when Pray told officers he was devastated by what he'd done.
"I can't even talk right now, man," he told a lieutenant who tried to console him. "I didn't want that to happen to him, man. I Tased him."
Other investigative documents released Wednesday show Ruffin's mother had warned police a little over 24 hours earlier that her son was in the midst of a breakdown after a recent change to his medication and the retirement of his social worker. In the time between, he had walked barefoot 4 miles to the neighboring town of Kohler with no shirt on.
Ruffin's death, coming after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis increased scrutiny of police violence against Black men nationwide, led to protests in Sheboygan. Some family members wondered if a white man would have been treated differently by police who knew he was in a mental health crisis.
But Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski determined last month that charges won't be filed against Pray — who is also Black and told investigators he had "worked with the Black Lives Matter movement" and supported police reforms. Urmanski wrote that "unfortunately (Pray's) use of deadly force was necessary."
The Sheboygan Press reviewed videos, audio and 300 pages of case reports released Wednesday afternoon by the DOJ. Here are some of the key things we learned.
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