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Shop NowThe citizens of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aren’t happy with their crisis response team. They may be loyal Democrat voters but don’t like seeing a cop in the hospital. From a shootout which never should have happened in the first place. Isaiah Stott wasn’t acting strange enough the day before, crisis experts declared, to haul him in for evaluation. If the way he was acting wasn’t crazy enough, what is? Even liberal citizens demand to know.
Crisis team at fault
Members of the Milwaukee Police Department crisis team need to be held accountable for what happened February 12. That’s the day 24-year-old Isaiah Stott shot it out with police, wounding an officer and dying in the process.
Less than 24 hours before that, police had another interesting encounter with the deceased. It wasn’t interesting enough to take him off the street, they claimed. Wrongly.
For hours, the day before, Stott “was seen acting strangely for hours outside a Milwaukee church and a clothing store.” Surveillance video shows exactly how strangely. The episode begins with an opening shot of “Stott coming inside the store at 76th Street and Mill Road after asking their security guard if he wanted to die.”
That wasn’t part of Isabella Gary’s schedule for the day so “she and the other workers closed the store out of concern for themselves and their customers.” They called the cops who sent a crisis team.
“He was pacing back and forth, he was sitting in his car, he took off his license plates. He actually came inside our store and asked could he hide out for a second,” Ms. Gary relates. As frightening as he was, he was notably polite. “Stott left when employees told him he couldn’t stay.” He certainly had the crisis team fooled.
Their report notes Stott was heard saying, “he needs to protect the church from whatever evil is coming and that the CIA has his phone tapped.” Cops also knew he had a gun he was planning on using.
He has a firearm
One caller from the church distinctly advised police that “he does have a firearm inside his car that he wants to bring inside to get rid of the evil.” It was an assault rifle. The crisis team didn’t seem to mind that. Evolve Church Pastor Kenneth Lock couldn’t resist using the incident as part of his sermon the following Sunday.
God guided his footsteps that fateful day and he “entered through another door and didn’t encounter Stott.” He was blissfully unaware he was the target of a would be assassin just outside.
“This week,” the pastor told his congregation, “we had an incident where a man who was deeply troubled, who felt that a voice told him to go buy an AR-15 and come murder me.” If he had encountered the man instead of the crisis team, there may have been a different outcome.
“I really wish I could’ve got to him. We saw that he came and waited for hours. Unfortunately, within 24 hours, he was gunned down.” He also “wounded an officer,” who they’re praying for.
Milwaukee PD confirmed “a crisis team from their department spoke with Stott at the scene, but ultimately, he was allowed to leave without being detained for mental health reasons.” The official statement notes, “officers made contact and a crisis assessment was conducted, however, the individual did not meet the criteria for a Chapter 51.” Threatening to kill someone with an AR-15 didn’t qualify as the “substantial probability of physical harm,” to themselves or others.
The clothing store worker has a comment about that. “I don’t know what criteria that you need if a man is standing outside a church looking for the pastor saying he’s going to, you know, kill him and looking back and forth waiting on people to come and threatening everyone. I mean, I would’ve taken that seriously at that time.” The team admits they “spoke to Stott through a partially opened car window, and he never got out of the car.“
