The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted that Wilks’ family watched video of the incident, which showed “Wilks slap an off-duty Milwaukee Police Department officer with a gun following a minor car crash.”
Wilks then allegedly pointed his gun at the off-duty officer and was shot and fatally wounded.
FOX 6 Now reported that the off-duty officer who shot Wilks was a 40-year-old man who has been with the department 20 years.
After watching video of the incident, Wilks’ aunt said, “He made a decision that he should not have made, and that is just something we have to live with. Him as a person – he was a son, a brother, a grandson, a nephew.”
The Wilks family’s attorney, B’Ivory LaMarr said, “We will acknowledge that we believe this officer-involved shooting was justified. We acknowledge that (Wilks) made a bad decision…and unfortunately it came with dire consequences.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of the NRA and Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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