Milwaukee police responded en masse after a caller stated that rioting students “have taken over” a school on September 6, multiple law enforcement sources told Wisconsin Right Now.
When officers got to the scene, they discovered “multiple groups fighting” and made arrests, another source told WRN. The exact number of arrests is not clear. The original caller stated that between 100 and 200 people were fighting, sources say. Details are still developing.
The incident occurred at Green Tree Preparatory Academy, 6850 N. 53rd Milwaukee.
We are told that as many as 30 squads responded to the scene, and an all-city assist call was put out. One source we spoke to described the incident as a “riot.” The call came in around 2:30 p.m.
According to our sources, MPD was told that parents had joined in the fighting.
“So glad MPS got the school resource officers they were told they needed,” one source sarcastically told WRN. The same day as the riot, Fox 6 reported that MPS still doesn’t have school resource officers. That’s even though the bipartisan shared revenue act” mandated it three months ago.
“GreenTree Preparatory Academy (GPA), an instrumentality charter school that was established in 2019, serves students in grades 6–10, building a program through grade 12,” MPS’ website says.
