Milwaukee, WI
'Show us the receipts': UWM students at pro-Palestine encampment determined despite weather conditions
MILWAUKEE — UW-Milwaukee student Thomas Mulkerrins has spent every night since Monday sleeping outside in a tent on his school’s campus, an experience he said has been anything but comfortable.
“I woke up with a sunburn,” he said. “But at night it’s freezing cold, so I’ll wrap myself up in (a blanket) and then I wake up sweating, so that’s been tough.”
Mulkerrins serves as co-chair of UMM’s Young Democratic Socialist of America, He told TMJ4’s Tahleel Mohieldin that doesn’t plan on leaving until the demands he and fellow protestors, in support of Palestine, have laid out are met.
“We’re here for Gaza. What we’re doing is super important,” he said. “It’s very straightforward a genocide what’s happening right now. Children are dying, they’re starving the people.”
Tahleel Mohieldin, TMJ4 News
Protestors have been pushing the university to disclose their financial investments and cut all ties with Israel.
After six days of camping outside junior and co-chair of the UWM Students for a Democratic Society, Audari Tamayo told Mohieldin that university leaders have done little to meet their demands.
“Just those mass emails, they sent to the school to try to placate us,” Tamayo said.
Friday the UWM Foundation released a statement about their $237 million investment portfolio. A message Mulkerrins said was woefully inadequate.
“We’re asking for an itemized list and they gave us a description of what a bond is,” Mulkerrins criticized. “I would hope that they would have more faith in their Econ 101 classes which most of us have taken.”
The statement did provide some information. The Foundation noted in part that while none of their bond investments include weapons manufacturers or governments in the Middle East, they can’t select what investments are included in their equity mutual funds because of how they are managed.
Tahleel Mohieldin, TMJ4 News
“If it’s true that they have no say where their money goes, then they shouldn’t be putting their money where they have no say,” Tamayo said. “If it’s true that they’re not investing in these things then they need to show us the receipts if they have nothing to hide.”
He also said while he believes university administrators are falling short, their encampment is still making progress with others in the community offering their support including UWM faculty and alumni.
Tamayo and other campers said they have every intention of keeping their encampment peaceful as they set up barricades they said were for their own protection from outside agitators.
He said peaceful observers of all backgrounds however are welcome, siting the Jewish Shabbat dinner and Muslim Jummah prayer held Friday at the encampment as examples.
“If anybody feels unsafe it’s because they haven’t stepped foot in this encampment,” he added.
Both Tamayo and Mulkerrins said so far, the university has been hands off the encampment but with campuses across the country clashing with police they’re aware that could change. Still, they said they have no intention of slowing down.
“If it does happen here, we’ll be back up strong the next day,” Mulkerrin said, looking to UW-Madison as an example. “They can come in, they can arrest us, they can charge us, it’s not going to stop us.”
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MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Police Department requested the public’s help to find 11-year-old Sir’Charles Bason, a critically missing boy who was last seen near Teutonia and Kiley at around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Police described Bason as 4 feet, 5 inches tall with a slim build, brown eyes and black, low-cut hair. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket with green lines, dark-colored jeans, tan sandals and carrying gray Nike Jordan shoes.
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What you can do:
Anyone with information on Bason’s whereabouts is asked to call Milwaukee Police District 4 at 414-935-7242.
The Source: The Milwaukee Police Department released information.
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man, previously named one of Wisconsin’s Most Wanted, has been sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his cousin in 2020.
In court
What we know:
A Milwaukee County jury found 39-year-old Brandon Gladney guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firm by a felon earlier this year.
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Judge Michelle Havas sentenced Gladney to 29 years in prison on Friday, April 17. He was granted credit for more than a year’s time served and further sentenced to 14 years of extended supervision.
Arrested in Arizona after years on the run, court records show Gladney has also been ordered to pay the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office more than $1,800 for extradition costs.
Homicide investigation
The backstory:
The shooting happened in May 2020. Investigators said Gladney was captured on video apparently arguing with the victim, his cousin, outside a Milwaukee convenience store near 21st and Meinecke.
“It’s all on video, and it’s devastating for that family,” the marshal on the case told FOX6 when Gladney was profiled on Wisconsin’s Most Wanted. “You have a family member that shot and killed another family member.”
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Prosecutors said Gladney walked away but then returned with a gun pointed directly at the victim and shot him. The victim died from his gunshot wounds at a nearby hospital. Multiple bullet casings were found at the scene.
Gladney went on the run for years. He was arrested in Arizona in January 2023, years after he was charged.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the U.S. Marshals Service, Wisconsin Circuit Court and prior coverage.
Brice Turang slides to home plate to score during a game between the Miami Marlins and the Milwaukee Brewers on April 17. (Photo by Chris Arjoon/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
MIAMI – Garrett Mitchell went 2 for 4 with three RBIs including a two-run double in the 10th inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Miami Marlins 7-5 on Friday night.
By the numbers:
Miami’s Calvin Faucher (1-2) entered a 4-all game in the 10th and walked Gary Sánchez with Brice Turang on second. Jake Bauers hit a single to load the bases.
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Luis Rengifo reached first on a throwing error by second baseman Xavier Edwards, allowing Turang to score. Mitchell followed with his double.
The Marlins scored one run in the bottom of the 10th when Jakob Marsee came home on Trevor Megill’s wild pitch. Megill settled in for his fourth save.
Coleman Crow, who made his debut on the mound for the Brewers, threw 77 pitches over 5 1/3 innings. He threw four strikeouts, gave up two earned runs and a walk.
The right-hander was 2-0 with a 4.07 ERA in two starts with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in Nashville. He missed part of the 2023 season and all of 2024 after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
The Brewers scored three runs in the fourth inning. With the bases loaded, Mitchell hit an RBI single, Bauers scored on a forceout at first and Rengifo scored on a throwing error by catcher Agustín Ramírez.
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Miami’s Otto Lopez hit a triple to center field in the fourth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Owen Caissie. Lopez hit a two-run homer in the sixth to pull Miami within 4-3 and Ramírez doubled in the eighth to tie the game at four.
Abner Uribe (1-0) earned his first win of the season, coming on in the ninth inning.
Marlins third baseman Graham Pauley left the game in the seventh inning with right oblique discomfort after spinning out of the way of a pitch.
What’s next:
The Brewers and Marlins continue their 3-game series on Saturday, with Brandon Woodruff (1-0, 4.36 ERA) taking the mound for Milwaukee and Sandy Alcantara (2-1, 2.67) for Miami.
The Source: The Associated Press provided this report.
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