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Ok, I admit it, I also got a chuckle out of the story of the new WalMart in my families home town of Black River Falls Wi. adding a new hitching post for the Amish residents of the area.

The state is working to release another man that is a registered Chapter 980, Sexually Violent Person, back into our streets. Notice how the reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel uses language that glosses over the violent nature of this man.

Robert Carney has been molesting little girls for 50 years. He has refused to under go treatment, and he believes that the 9 and 10 year old girls “wanted it”, and he is said to be “more likely than not” to re-offend if released into the community.

Jury to decide if sex offender can be released

A 77-year-old habitual sex offender who has been stuck in a state psychiatric institution because Milwaukee hasn’t found a suitable place for his court-ordered supervised release is set for a jury trial in March to determine whether he can be released without supervision.

Robert Carney has a 50-year history of sexually assaulting young girls, and Milwaukee County prosecutors say they have at least one expert witness prepared to testify that he is still, in the words of state law, “more likely than not” to re-offend if released into the community. That will be up to a jury of six people to decide at his March 19 trial before Circuit Judge Daniel L. Konkol.

Court records indicate Carney’s defense attorney has located several experts who have said they will testify that Carney is safe enough at this point to release.

The final pre-trial hearing is March 15, and the jury trial begins March 19 in front of Judge Daniel Konkol.

District Attorney John Chisholm, the ball is officially in your court… We are watching.

If I was this guy, I would buy a lottery ticket! With this kind of luck, you couldn’t miss. Fall 16 stories and you only get a broken leg?

Wisconsin man breaks leg in 16-story fall

A Wisconsin man in town for a dart tournament apparently was goofing around this morning at the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency when he crashed through a window and fell 16 stories.

The man, identified in a police report as 29-year-old Joshua S. Hanson, of Blair, Wis., landed on a roof overhang near the hotel’s main entrance along Nicollet Mall. His most serious injury was a broken leg.

Cleaning up the streets.

Man, 19, fatally shot by police

A 19-year-old man armed with two handguns was fatally shot early this morning by Milwaukee Police after he fired repeatedly at officers on the city’s south side, the Milwaukee Police Department said today.

Officers responded to a home in the 2000 block of S. 12th St. on several reports of a man firing shots in a home shortly after midnight.

The first on the scene, plain-clothes officers with the department’s gang unit, saw the suspect in the street with a gun, identified themselves as police and ordered him to drop the gun. He ran, turned and began firing at police and one of the officers returned fire.

Two uniformed officers from District 2 arrived, saw the suspect shooting at police and fired.

Does this next line surprise ANYONE? (em mine)

The suspect, who police said had been arrested repeatedly for drug offenses, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. Two handguns were recovered from him, the department said.

UPDATE: Neighborhood response
Again, we have police that have to shoot a thug, this one with two guns and shooting at police. The reaction Fox6 has from the neighbors… “They didn’t have to shoot him that many times.” And from another, “He was a good guy.”

Makes you wonder why the police even bother any more. They risk their lives every day for us, and this is the thanks they get.