JAY-Z and Team Roc, the social justice arm of Roc Nation, have called for the firing of Wisconsin police officer Joseph Mensah of the Wauwatosa Police Department.
In a letter written to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Team Roc noted Mensah shot and killed three black men — Alvin Cole, Antonio Gonzales and Jay Anderson — during routine traffic stops over the last five years, using a total of 19 bullets.
Mensah shot 17-year-old Cole five times near Mayfield Mall in February. In 2016, Mensah fired six shots at 24-year-old Anderson in what he claimed was self-defense. A year before, he shot and killed 25-year-old in Wauwatosa after firing at him eight times.
Team Roc also noted Mensah failed to administer CPR during all three incidents and didn’t have his dash cam on. Aside from Mensah’s three killings, no other fatal shootings have taken place within the Wauwatosa Police Department.
“We are calling for your office to prosecute Mensah to ensure that he never kills anyone again and to immediately outfit all of our police officers with body cameras,” Team Roc said in the statement. “It is your responsibility to do the right thing, hold Mensah accountable for his actions and protect Wauwatosa citizens from further tragedy. Mensah must also be de-certified and fired from the police force immediately.”
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Team Roc took out a full-page ad in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday (July 1), addressing District Attorney John Chisholm directly.
“How many more people must die at the hands of Officer Joseph Mensah?” the ad begins. “Since joining the Wauwatosa Police Department in 2015, Mensah has shot and killed THREE men of color — Alvin Cole, Antonio Gonzales and Jay Anderson — with an excessive total of NINETEEN fired shots. His actions demonstrate an utter disregard for the lives of these young men.”
The letter follows Roc Nation’s recent announcement regarding the annual music festival Made In America. Unsurprisingly, the event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read the label’s statement below.
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The race hustling continue from Jay. It’s sad that all 3 of these people died but, all of them were armed and were instructed to follow commands for their safety, the officer’s safety, and the safety of those around. You don’t follow directions when you’re armed what do you think is going to happen? Cops clearly aren’t allowed to defend their own lives. What are they supposed to do? Wait to get shot or stabbed? Jay and everyone at Team Roc should be asking for justice for the 3 year old that got shot in Chicago on Father’s Day weekend. Keep pushing this divide against law enforcement, and the continuing divide between race. You’re going to get some interesting results.
Bitch, go listen to country music. We don’t want you in our culture with that type of mindset, hoe.
What makes you think I listen to country? Get out of here with that shit lol. You’re weak minded with a weak argument. Take your over woke ass to sleep. Get off the Democrat plantation. People like you are as much of the problem as Jay’s race hustling is. Sounds to me like you like the idea of a race war and a taking apart of America. You don’t like it here; go to CHAZ and see how long you last there with all the shootings going on. Unless you got something meaningful to say just don’t talk. You were better off being mad in silence.
If we can’t agree on whether or not the three victims deserved to die, surely we can agree on the fact that a body cam would be helpful , and that excessive force was in fact used.
Surely. The idea they’re still being allowed to drag their feet on body cams and still getting away with “oh, oops, it was off” or “the battery died” is astounding. No room in those billion dollar budgets for extra batteries? Just tanks?
And it’s hard to believe 19 shots over 3 deaths isnt excessive. We don’t need officers emptying their clips every time they feel they need to shoot. It’s literal overkill, and it’s inhumane.
Sounds awfully white of you! Lol hey why dont you listen to rap we dont want you in our country! Lmfao the irony
Salut to Jay and the team for staying consistent with the fight to hold the authorities accountable for deaths in custody and unnecessary fatalities in law enforcement. The struggle continues!
What a clown. I grew up listening to Jay-Z’s drug pedaling raps and became a race baiter just like him.
The officer in question is black you Big Top Bozo
Go Jay. Call out murderers that we pay their salary. If you don’t like what you hear get your racist ass off this page. They’ll never be a plantation here again. If it do it won’t be black people. You’re not ready for what you’re asking for racist. We’re not ever playing with white hoodies again. If we’ll kill each other, we won’t give 2 thoughts about white racist people. Stop acting like hill billies the only ones with guns just because you parade yours around.. Keep fooling yourself just because we don’t walk around showing ours. Keep pulling your guns on us without reason. We’re watching and you’re gonna get what you say you want.
You don’t care about killing each other. You see the problem there? Your statement means nothing other than a call for a civil war no one wants. Your ignorance is a product of indoctrination in the public school system; the kool aid you drink from the media, and whoever is in your social circle (family and friends). There is no resurgence of the KKK. Black people are not hunted down by cops and white people. Just by your own kind. These people made a choice and they got what they thought they wanted. Pulling your guns on “us.” Only two of the people mentioned were black. All had weapons that didn’t follow commands given to them. I’m sure you will also have shitty rebuttal to this being that most people who don’t like what I say like to just parrot narratives with no thoughts of their own.
The rebuttal is that the officer in question is black you clown ass clown.
Do you even believe the nonsense coming out of your mouth wake up look at actual statistics shit is orchestrated for simple minds to believe 9 unarmed “black” men shot in 2019 by cops! Education is Paramount
MINORITIES AND MINES… STICKS TO MY MIND… LONG GONE ARE THE DAYS… I CARED ABOUT GETTING PAID… black excellence
Didn’t Roc artist Yo Gotti try to have Young Dolph publicly killed like 3 different times? Wheres the Roc Nation statement condemming that?
Yo Gotti is not sworn to protect and serve.
If the Cole family is awarded restitutions for wrongful death I sincerely hope they are planning on giving the money to the assistant principal Alvin viscously assaulted by smashing him across the face with a computer monitor. Mr.Brown was an African American middle school teacher who was a role model to the young male students and an outstanding educator. He had just completed his doctorate and requirements for a principal license. He has had three surgeries due to brain injury and multiple facial fractures with no success. A man with a bright future is now on disability. His ability to provide for his family and his quality of life were taken by Alvin Cole. It is only right that Mr. Brown receives justice as well as Alvin Cole.