10 years after his death, Dontre Hamilton’s family seeks police reforms in Milwaukee

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10 years after his death, Dontre Hamilton’s family seeks police reforms in Milwaukee

Reading Time: 4 minutes Nearly 10 years after her son, Dontre Hamilton, was shot and killed by a Milwaukee Police Department officer, Maria Hamilton is still fighting for change. “The system failed me and my family, and I still want justice,” she said. “It wasn’t about Dontre being mentally ill, it was about a system created to do exactly what it did.”   What the system did, she said, was fail to protect her son and hold people accountable for …