Protesters gathered at the Sherman Park neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Milwaukee in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, holding a cookout for both protesters and bystanders and accepting donations for the victim’s family.
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A 23-year old man killed by police at Milwaukee sparked a demoniac protest.
“Hopefully they can voice their problems and their opinions to us”, local chaplain Marcy Spoke told Xinhua.
DeShawn Corprue, 31, who lives behind the burned-out BP station, said nothing that police released about Smith’s death would have stopped the weekend’s unrest.
“What happened tonight may not have been right and I am not justifying that but no one can deny the fact that there are problems, racial problems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that need to be rectified”, Rainey said. The unrest continued on Sunday night with protesters throwing rocks and other objects at police and one person shot.
City leaders blamed outside agitators Monday after a second straight night of violence wracked Milwaukee’s mostly black north side in protest at the fatal shooting of a black man by police. The men fled the vehicle and the officers followed, shooting Smith in the arm and chest when he failed to put his gun down, Barrett said. “We had folks from the community step forward to take a leadership role in reducing tensions”.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Wisconsin’s put the National Guard on standby in case of a repeat of the violence August 14, but after-dark protests were peaceful. The mayor and police chief say body-camera video shows Smith had the gun in hand and had turned toward the officer when he was shot. However, the curfew banning teens from being on the streets past 10 p.m.is still in full effect.
Fourteen people were arrested. Police made, after rioting left six businesses to burned or destroyed in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood.
Buck Phillips was at the park Monday evening and said law enforcement might have limited the demonstrations, but community concerns about police shootings remain.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Smith was subsequently accused of pressuring the victim to recant statements that identified him as the gunman and was charged with trying to intimidate a witness. “I’m going to urge that it be released as quickly as possible”, said Barrett, who has yet to see it.
Police said Smith’s auto was stopped because he was acting suspiciously, raising skepticism within largely African-American neighborhoods where people report racial discrimination from police.
Police say the man who was shot Saturday was fleeing from police and had turned with a gun in hand toward the pursuing officer, who was also black.
African Americans are shot on the spot without questioning their behavior or reasons for the possession of arms.
Police Chief Edward Flynn says there were some confrontations and six people were arrested Monday night, but that the neighborhood was relatively calm compared to the weekend.
Seven officers were injured and 14 people were arrested by the time it was over. Dozens of officers arrived and forced the group down the street.
Online court records showed multiple charges against the 23-year-old Smith dating back to 2013.
Barry Givens, president of the community association board of Sherman Park, the Milwaukee neighborhood where most of the unrest occurred, said he didn’t think it was “totally accurate” to blame Sunday’s disturbances on the Chicago group.
On Sunday, there were 30 instances of shots fired, Mr Flynn said.
“There is ample opportunity for second-guessing, I’m sure”, Flynn said.
Mike Males, senior researcher at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, said there’s another problem: Curfews don’t target the people who are committing crimes.
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In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where 37-year-old Alton Sterling was fatally shot in July during a struggle with two white police officers, protests largely dissipated after three law enforcement officers were killed in a shooting attack that appeared to target police.
