Wisconsin police kill 14-year-old indigenous boy on his own homeland

Following on the heels of the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute a police officer for the shooting of young Navajo mother Loreal Tsingine in Arizona, an Indigenous eighth grader, Jason Pero, was killed by a white policeman in Wisconsin on November 8.

Pero was a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and was killed on his own reservation. He was shot outside his grandparents’ home by Ashland County Deputy Brock Mrdjenovich, who alleged the boy lunged at him with a butcher knife. The family and others are skeptical of the claim.

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