Wisconsin lawmaker says she saw events ahead of fatal police shooting

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A Wisconsin state representative observed incidents that led up to the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Madison, where protesters later gathered at the site of the killing, the lawmaker said on her Facebook page. An officer responded to a disturbance on Friday evening and later forced his way into an apartment that a 19-year-old suspect in a recent battery had entered, the city's Police Chief Mike Koval has told reporters. State Representative Chris Taylor, who said on Facebook she observed what led up to the shooting, is the co-author of a bill signed into law last year that requires outside investigators under the direction of the Wisconsin Department of Justice to probe officer involved shootings. I've been informed that the Department of Justice's division of criminal investigation is on its way to the scene." Taylor's post on Facebook gave no further details on the shooting and she did not return an email seeking comment.

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