A mentally ill homeless man was shot and killed by police just outside the security perimeter of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Tuesday.
In a scenario eerily similar to a police shooting in Juneau on Monday, the man, reported to be known by the neighborhood, was wielding two knives, swinging them at officers, when a police officer from Columbus, Ohio took him down.
On Monday in Juneau, a well-known vagrant who lived in doorways downtown lunged at police with a knife and was shot and killed.