Mayor Tom Barrett said Monday the city is imposing a 10 p.m. curfew for teenagers and hinted it could be extended.
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“Those individuals, in my mind, are deliberately trying to damage a great neighborhood in a great city”, Barrett said Monday.
“I’m speechless, I’m shocked”, Booker said responding to the events that took place Saturday. “You get a lot of people that’s hurt, and they can’t vent the right way”, Smithtold WDJT-TV. Saturday’s police shooting came after a violent night in Milwaukee.
About two dozen officers in riot gear confronted protesters who were throwing rocks and other objects at police Sunday near where Smith was killed.
The shooting led to a night of unrest in the Sherman Park neighborhood, including fires at several local businesses and reports of shots fired.
This undated photo provided by the Milwaukee County Sheriff shows Sylville K. Smith.
Flynn cautioned that the shooting was still under investigation and authorities were awaiting autopsy results, but that based on the silent video from the unidentified officer’s body camera, he “certainly appeared to be within lawful bounds”.
The police officer who shot Smith is a 24-year-old, six-year veteran of the Milwaukee Police Department, though he had been an officer for just three years, according to Flynn.
Mr Flynn said the man “doesn’t seem to be in medical danger”. Police posted on Twitter three locations where they said shots were fired.
Police Capt. Mark Stanmeyer said in a news release that the two people in the auto got out and ran and that the officers chased them.
DeShawn Corprue, 31, who lives behind the burned-out BP station, said whatever information police released about Smith’s death would not have stopped the weekend’s unrest. Online court records showed a range of offenses that were mostly misdemeanors. He pleaded guilty in November to misdemeanor possession of a firearm, and charges of intimidating a witness and recklessly endangering safety were dismissed. He said the officer had told Smith to drop the gun and he did not do so.
The disorder heightened concern that Milwaukee, with a glittering lakefront that belies its stark racial and economic divides, might be in the opening days of sustained protests about the practices of the police.
Barrett addressed the violence obliquely while speaking to the recruits, and praised the work of police officers.
Last December, the U.S. Justice Department announced it was conducting a review of the department.
An 18-year-old male was shot in the neck during the chaos.
Barrett said that goes a long way in making sure that we have good police-community relations in the City of Milwaukee. Protesters burned cars and property on Saturday night. The curfew is normally in effect in the city during the school year, which begins August 31. “So parents, after 10 o’clock your teenagers better be home or in a place where they’re off the streets”.
The curfew is in response to two nights of violence in the Sherman Park neighborhood. In 2013, the city of Milwaukee was the country’s most segregated metropolitan area and many Black residents have felt extremely oppressed and disenfranchised over the years. Residents there say the city has been unresponsive to their needs.
Police say Smith had been arrested 13 times before. During the first night of protests over his death, 17 people were arrested, and four officers were injured.
Sunday’s protests were smaller and less destructive than the previous night’s, although some violence continued and one person was shot and wounded under unknown circumstances.
Four officers and four deputies were injured Sunday night, with at least one officer hospitalized after the windshield of his cruiser was struck by a rock.
The violence over the weekend had prompted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to declare a state of emergency on Sunday.
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There has been no update on his condition and police are seeking suspects in the shooting.
