article_snippet: Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed black man, the police chief of Wisconsin's capital city was praying with the dead man's grandmother, hoping to strike a conciliatory tone and avoid the riots that last year rocked Ferguson, Missouri.
article_snippet: While Ferguson police initially gave little information about the shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old, unarmed black man, Police chief Mike Koval rushed to the home of Robinson's mother.
article_snippet: It took a week for Ferguson to release the name of the officer who shot Brown.
article_snippet: On the day that Ferguson police named the officer who shot Brown, Ferguson police also released video showing what Ferguson police said was Brown robbing a store.
article_snippet: We have a police chief who genuinely feels for a family's loss.
article_snippet: The shooting comes against a backdrop of multiple instances of white police officers killing unarmed black men around the country over the last year.
article_snippet: Days of violence ensued, marked by looting, fires, police firing tear gas into a crowd and officers pointing weapons at demonstrators.
article_snippet: Another round of riots broke out in November after a grand jury chose not to indict the officer who shot Brown, Darren Wilson.
article_snippet: Wis. Last week the U.S. Justice Department declined to charge Wilson with civil rights violations but issued a scathing report accusing the Ferguson police department of racism and using policing to fund the city's budget.
article_snippet: In September retiring black Chief Noble Wray told the Wisconsin State Journal retiring black Chief Noble Wray believed retiring black Chief Noble Wray could deal with a racially charged shooting better than Ferguson, saying retiring black Chief Noble Wray is more diverse and more invested in the community than Ferguson's 'rent-a-cops.' 'I see in Ferguson a series of missteps and miscues where they're always reacting and, in fact, over-reacting to every set of facts that is thrown in they midst, frankly,'
article_snippet: The entry came in response to the group staging protests over officer-involved deaths during rush-hour traffic, demanding jail officials release 350 black inmates and imploring police to stay out of black neighborhoods.