Riverwest’s real-life “masked avenger”

Uhhhhh….really?!? Seriously?!?

He calls himself the Watchman. He won’t give his real name.

His identity is obscured by a bright red mask that covers half his goateed face. He wears black boots, black pants, black leather gloves and a black trench coat, but there’s a large yellow circle on the chest of his black hooded sweatshirt, with a big W.

“I’m what people refer to as a real-life superhero,” he says.

By night, on weekends, he patrols Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood, looking for injustice and evildoers. By day? That’s a mystery.

“While most reactions to what I do are positive, there are a few negative responses,” he explains, adding that the disguise protects his family – a wife and two young sons – from any of that. “I’m the one who decided to do this, not them,” he says. “They should not have to suffer for it.”

I’m just trying to wrap my brain around why a guy with a wife and two young sons at home would spend his weekends patrolling the streets of Milwaukee as some sort of crimefighter. It just seems odd to me…

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