MILWAUKEE (CN) — After 10 hours of deliberation, a Milwaukee jury could not reach a unanimous verdict in the civil lawsuit against a former Wisconsin police officer who fatally shot a 17-year-old in a mall parking lot, resulting in a second mistrial.
In February 2020, Wauwatosa police officers were dispatched to Mayfair Mall for a dispute involving a group of teenagers, one of whom was Alvin Cole. He was described by mall security as a Black teenage male wearing a lightly colored hoodie and a fanny pack containing a handgun.
When officers arrived on the scene around 6 p.m., Cole and his friends ran away. While he was fleeing one officer and a mall security guard, his gun went off and he collapsed, according to testimony…