Similar protests erupted Saturday night after an officer shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith in the chest and arm after pulling over his auto for what authorities described as suspicious behavior. He said the officer stopped Smith’s vehicle because he was behaving suspiciously and then had to chase him several dozen feet on foot into an enclosed space between two houses.
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In addition to the businesses damaged, 17 people were arrested and four police injured, although all had been released from hospital, Flynn said. One volunteer picked up a bullet casing and handed it to police. Police said one person was shot at a Milwaukee protest on. The police chief said he wasn’t sure what prompted the stop but described Smith’s auto as “behaving suspiciously”.
ABC said someone was also shot: “Police said one person was shot at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the injured victim and rush the person to a hospital”.
The mayor said Smith did not drop the gun as ordered before he was shot. Police said one person was shot.
The mayor of the U.S. city of Milwaukee says a still image pulled from a police officer’s body camera shows “without question” that the black man shot by an officer was holding a gun in his hand at the time of the shooting.
He said the moment when the officer fired his weapon could not be determined because the audio was delayed.
Walker announced the National Guard activation after a request from Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who met Walker and Wisconsin National Guard Adjutant General Donald Dunbar.
Unrest continued in Milwaukee, Wisconsin again on Sunday night and into early Monday morning.
Milwaukee Alderman Khalif Rainey, who represents the neighborhood that erupted, said the city’s black residents are “tired of living under this oppression”.
“Now this is a warning cry”. Smith was accused in a shooting past year and charged with recklessly endangering safety, a felony. The police Chief insisted the police officer on Saturday was acting in self-defense.
Smith’s sister said the family wanted prosecutors to charge the officer who shot him.
She asked people for donations for his burial.
Police say they are making multiple arrests in Milwaukee after a second night of unrest over the police killing of a black man.
Darlene Rose, 31, said that she understands the anger that fueled the violence, but that it doesn’t help.
Almost 40 percent of Milwaukee’s 600,000 residents are black, and they are heavily concentrated on the north side. He says it is important for the public to know that an independent investigation is being conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
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But Smith was father to a 2-year-old toddler, too, his mother said.
