“Shots fired. Officer-involved. Guy started beating me. Started beating me my baton. Started hitting me in the head with my own baton,” he shouted, according to dispatch audio obtained by Fox News WITI-TV. “Uh, Starbucks. Starbucks. Help right now. Uh, send me medical too. He’s gonna need medical. Shots multiple times to the chest. Black male. He’s about 20. Starbucks at Kilbourn and Water. I need medical.”

The call continued as police officers swarmed the scene.

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Dispatch: “10-4. Is there any officers shot there?” Manney: “11-12. Negative on any officers shot. … I may have been hit with a baton, but I’m okay. I’m off the air now.”

On Monday, the prosecutor announced Manney would not be charged with a crime.

Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm wrote in a report Manney was justified when he fired at Hamilton during a violent struggle in which Hamilton grabbed Manney’s baton, The Washington Post’s reported. The prosecutor’s decision, following non-prosecutions in Ferguson and New York, prompted protests in Milwaukee.

Manney is white. Hamilton was black.

“This was a tragic incident for the Hamilton family and for the community,” Chisholm wrote in the report. “But, based on all the evidence and analysis presented in this report, I come to the conclusion that Officer Manney’s use of force in this incident was justified self-defense and that defense cannot be reasonably overcome to establish a basis to charge Officer Manney with a crime.”

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The shooting occurred April 30. An employee at a Starbucks kiosk called police to report a homeless man sleeping in Red Arrow Park, a space in downtown Milwaukee that’s green in the summer and white in the winter, when it turns into an outdoor ice-skating rink. Manney got a voice-mail message from his desk sergeant about the man.

“I just got a call there from your people there at Starbucks by Red Arrow, Red Arrow Park. Apparently they have a trailer they are operating out of there now?” the voice-mail message said, according to WITI-TV. “Like I said, there is a homeless guy sleeping alongside the trailers there if you want to check on him. Black male, 30 to 40 years old, wearing a blue or a navy coat and navy jeans.”

Manney wasn’t aware that two other officers had responded to the call — and had decided Hamilton wasn’t a problem. Manney went to check it out. When he got there, he said he found Hamilton sleeping on the ground and told him to stand. He then started patting him down from behind.

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Manney told investigators Hamilton turned around and balled his right fist, according to the district attorney’s report. Manney tried to “disengage” him. Manney said Hamilton lunged and took a swing at the officer. Manney then blocked the punch and hit Hamilton in the chin. Hamilton then grabbed Manney in the shoulder area, pulling the officer toward him, and hit him on the right side of his head, the report said.

At that point, Manney said, he felt he was losing control.

“Manney separated from Hamilton, removed his baton with his left hand and transferred it to his right hand,” according to the report. “When Hamilton continued to be aggressive, Manney struck him once in the rib area with the baton. Manney states that Hamilton trapped his baton between his arms and his torso and spun away from Manney. Manney attempted to retain control of his baton but could not.”

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Manney said he felt the baton strike him on the neck. Then he pulled his gun.

After Manney fired the first shot, he said it had no effect on Hamilton.

“So he continued to fire while walking backwards from Hamilton,” according to the report. “Hamilton fell forward and Manney continued to fire because he perceived Hamilton still to be a threat. He stopped firing when Hamilton was completely on the ground.”

More than a dozen eyewitness accounts of the incidents vary. Some said Hamilton was the aggressor; others said it was Manney. But several witnesses “with the best, closest views” said Manney stopped shooting when Hamilton hit the ground, which is consistent with Manney’s account. “I have no physical evidence to prove otherwise, including information from the autopsy report,” Chisholm wrote.

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Hamilton’s family said he was battling schizophrenia and had stopped taking his medication shortly before the incident. In October, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn fired Manney because he violated procedures for dealing with the emotionally unstable by coming up behind Hamiliton to initiate the pat-down.

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“This intentional action, in violation of training and policy, instigated a physical confrontation that resulted in a deadly use of force,” Flynn said at the time.

A few weeks before the prosecutor’s announcement, Flynn told “Nightline” he fired Manney not because he used excessive force, but because he used poor judgment.

“The reason I did it was because he was clearly wrong and his judgment placed him in a jeopardy position that resulted in having to take a life,” Flynn said.

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Following Chisholm’s decision, Hamilton’s family said in a statement that they were “extremely disappointed.”

“This is a case which cries out for justice, criminal charges against Christopher Manney, and accountability to Dontre Hamilton’s family,” the family’s attorney, Jonathan Safran, said in the statement.

The Justice Department said Monday that it will review the case, the U.S. attorney in Milwaukee said in a statement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Civil Rights Division will conduct the review.

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