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		</div><h6><span style="color: #3d2f2f;"><strong>Wisconsin police apologize for wrongly arresting Black man at gunpoint in his home after his neighbor called 911 about a &#8216;black man inside a house who shouldn&#8217;t be there&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3d2f2f;"><strong>The Monona Police Dept received a call from a woman at 10:50am on Tuesday &#8211; Caller told dispatchers she’d seen a black man ‘inside her neighbor’s home and didn’t believe he should be there’</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3d2f2f;"><strong>The previous person who lived next door recently passed away, and the home had been vacant ever since, she said</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3d2f2f;"><strong>Allegedly believing a burglary to be in progress, the officers then entered the premises guns drawn, police said</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3d2f2f;"><strong>Officers placed a 23-year-old black male they found in the home him in handcuffs while they investigated the property, according to the police statement</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3d2f2f;"><strong>The man, who has not been named, told police he was renting the property from the son of the deceased owner </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3d2f2f;"><strong>He was released after cops contacted the current owner and he confirmed the man&#8217;s story, before police uncuffed him without charging the home&#8217;e occupant</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3d2f2f;"><strong>The home&#8217;s resident and the home owner have filed a formal complaint with police over the incident</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-348190" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Arrowhead-Drive-in-Monona-Wisconsin-1.jpg" alt="Arrowhead Drive, in Monona, Wisconsin 1" width="932" height="512" />The Monona Police Dept arrested a black home owner on Tuesday morning after a call from a female resident of Arrowhead Drive [photo] at 10:50am reported seeing a black man ‘inside her neighbor’s home and didn’t believe he should be there’.</span></strong></h6>
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<div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Police in Wisconsin have publicly apologized to an Black man they wrongly arrested at gunpoint after falsely suspecting him of burglarizing a house he had actually just moved into, prompted by an unwarranted tip.<br />
The Monona Police Department received a call from a woman on the 5100 block of Arrowhead Drive at 10:50am on Tuesday, with the report that she had seen a black man ‘inside her neighbor’s home and didn’t believe he should be there’.<br />
The woman told dispatchers that the previous person who lived next door had recently passed away, and the home had been vacant ever since.<br />
Although the caller specifically identified the supposed burglar as a black male to dispatchers, Monona Police Chief Walter J. Ostrenga claims that information wasn&#8217;t passed on to responding officers.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">According to Chief Ostrenga, when officers arrived at the home, they found the front door ‘unsecured’. They knocked and announced their presence. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Officers reported was in progress, the officers then entered the home with their firearms drawn.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-348185" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Walter-J.-Ostrenga-1.jpg" alt="Walter J. Ostrenga 1" width="693" height="378" />Though the woman specifically identified the believed burglar as a black male to dispatchers, Monona Police Chief Walter J. Ostrenga (above) claims that information wasn&#8217;t passed on to attending officers</span></strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Inside, officers met a 23-year-old black male and placed him in handcuffs while they investigated the property.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">When cops asked what he was doing inside the house, the man told police he was legally in the home having rented the property from the current owner &#8211; the son of the deceased former owner.<br />
Police contacted the homeowner by phone and he confirmed he that he was friends with the handcuffed man, who was was renting from him.<br />
‘Given the circumstances, the handcuffs were removed from the subject,’ Chief Ostrenga said in a written statement. ‘Officers apologized for the misunderstanding and they cleared from the call.’<br />
Shortly after the incident, the home owner and the man who had been handcuffed in the home went to the police department and filed a formal complaint.<br />
The complaint will be thoroughly investigated, police said<br />
One of the officers involved met with them and again apologized.<br />
The Monona Police Department said in a news release that the department is, &#8220;committed to creating an environment of trust and empathy in all our interactions between the public and our peace officers.&#8221;</p>
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Police apologize for wrongful arrest of Black man at gunpoint in his Wisconsin home, after a neighbor called 911 with a false report about a ‘black man inside a house who shouldn’t be there’
