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| CONCEALED CARRY ADVOCATES SUING MILWAUKEE POLICE OVER REFUSAL TO RETURN GUN |
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WPR News - Concealed carry advocates suing Milwaukee Police over refusal to return gun
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Monday April 16, 2012
by Gilman Halsted
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(MILWAUKEE) Advocates for the right to carry a concealed weapon are suing the Milwaukee police department. At issue is the department's refusal to return a gun to man who shot an alleged robber at a Milwaukee grocery store.
In January of this year, Nazir Al-Mujaahid of Milwaukee shot and wounded 20 year old Dierre Cotton. Cotton was allegedly threatening the cashier with a shotgun when Al-Mujaahid confronted him and fired six or seven shots at him with his handgun. Al-Mujaahid has a concealed carry permit and was not charged in the shooting but his gun was confiscated. Nik Clark of Wisconsin Carry Inc. says Al-Mujaahid has filed a return of property claim to get his gun back but the police won't give it to him, "We don't think that it's right for people to have to go to court to get their legally owned property back that the police had no right to keep in the first place. He did file that return of property petition and the clerk of courts wouldn't even accept it. So now he has no due process. The police are saying they need it as evidence but we don't believe they do."
The victim of the shooting Dierre Cotton faces an armed robbery charge. A scheduling conference for the case is set for this Friday. Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm's office declined to comment on Al-Mujaahid's claim that his gun should be returned to him because he faces no charges. This case is the first one in Wisconsin in which a concealed carry permit holder shot someone in a public place. Nik Clark says members of his group have had previous problems getting police to return guns confiscated from people who were never charged with a crime.
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