Khalil Coleman, 36-years-old, faces up to 20 years behind bars over his part in an attempted robbery of a drug house in Elsmere, Kentucky, in February 2021.
Elsmere police officers captured three suspects at the crime scene, including Coleman and a minor, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Elsmere Police Chief Joe Maier supplied details of the incident and said the group prepared an armed home invasion robbery and tried to flee when the plan failed. “They went to a drug house to rob a drug house,” Maier said. “One of the occupants went up to the drug house and had a Glock handgun with a 50-round magazine drum...When it didn’t work, they hurried up and left the scene, jumped in a white vehicle and left.”
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According to the Journal Sentinel, Maier said police stopped the group after they were prevented by a snowplow when they tried to escape. Authorities said that Coleman was the driver of the escape vehicle. Officers also recovered two handguns from the car, along with drug paraphernalia suspected to be heroin and marijuana, the outlet reports. Authorities said that Coleman and his accomplice Joshua Clarey, 24-years-old, of New Berlin, forced a 17-year-old minor to go to an alleged drug house and steal money. Although the jury said they were not convinced that Coleman knew he was a juvenile, they found him not guilty in the lesser charge of unlawful transaction of a minor.
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The jury recommended Coleman be sentenced to 10 years in prison, though the charges could lead to up to 20 years. A sentencing date for Coleman has not yet been determined, according to the Journal Sentinel.
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Coleman is known in the state of Wisconsin for directing anti-police protests on behalf of Milwaukee’s "People's Revolution,” a revolutionary faction of Black Lives Matter. The group calls on levels of government to answer a set of demands, which include defunding the police, stripping law enforcement of equipment, ending qualified immunity, and others, according to the organization’s website.
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During the summer of 2020, Coleman was a lead organizer in months-long protests in Milwaukee following Floyd’s death in May of that year. The massive protests often turned violent and destructive.
The media praised Coleman as a “brilliant community leader” for his “battle for equity and racial justice” despite the destructive protests and Coleman being an open supporter of the violent Milwaukee street gang “Gangster Disciples,” which he claims to have no affiliation except support, according to WisconsinRightNow.
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