MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee newspaper’s review of tweets found Russia-linked accounts sought to spur racial and political discord in Wisconsin after a police officer’s fatal shooting of a black man sparked riots. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the accounts sent more than 30 tweets during the August 2016 unrest in Milwaukee following the shooting. One of the accounts, @TEN_GOP, is named in a recent federal indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller. The account tweeted during the riots: “This is Obama’s America! #Milwaukee.” Another account claimed Black Lives Matter supporters were targeting “white people for a beat down.” Jurors acquitted former officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown of homicide charges for fatally shooting Sylville Smith when Smith ran from a traffic stop. President Donald Trump became the first Republican to win Wisconsin since 1984.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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