Elijah Wilks, 26, was shot on Thursday, Oct. 9.
The family of a Black man fatally shot by an off-duty police officer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has deemed the shooting “justified.”
Elijah Wilks, 26, was fatally shot on Thursday, Oct. 9, after assaulting the unidentified officer, who was on his way to work, the New York Post reports. Police footage, released at the family’s request to prevent misinformation and protests, shows the two men involved in a minor crash, exiting their vehicles and exchanging words before Wilks draws his gun and strikes the officer with it…