Tony Wayne Bean

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Tony Bean was wandering around near N. 23rd and W. Clarke streets, shouting for help, jumping over fences and darting into traffic, around two miles from his home. Officers Philip Gagnon and Matthew Claudio arrested him and put him in a van to go to the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex. He died from injuries he received either during the arrest or while handcuffed and alone in the back of the moving van. The medical examiner ruled the death caused by excited delirium, despite finding more than 20 cuts and bruises on Bean's face, arms, legs, hands and shoulders.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Tony Wayne Bean, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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