((BREAKING)) Officer who shot Sylville Smith Arrested for Raping and Soliciting sex from men
The Milwaukee Police Department said Thursday that a police officer — whose fatal shooting of a man in August set off violent unrest there — was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting someone while the demonstrations were ongoing.
Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown was arrested on Wednesday night after a police investigation that ended with the Milwaukee County district attorney filing criminal charges, the department said in a statement. Heaggan-Brown, 24, was charged with five counts, including two felony counts of second-degree sexual assault.
Police said a man told authorities he was sexually assaulted by Heaggan-Brown while turmoil still dominated Milwaukee’s streets two days after the officer killed Sylville K. Smith, 23.
In court documents, authorities say the man told police that the officer, who was off-duty, had raped him at about the same time that other Milwaukee officers were responding to reports of gunshots, making arrests and having rocks thrown at them in the area of the demonstrations.
Investigators looking into the man’s allegation said they also found evidence that Heaggan-Brown had sexually assaulted a second man and paid for sex with two others. Edward A. Flynn, the Milwaukee police chief, called the charges “extraordinarily disappointing” and said they cast a pall over the department.
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