Mayor Tom Barrett said at a news conference Monday that youths and parents should take note that all teenagers must be off the streets by 10 p.m. “It is not the place to go to drive your auto around right now”.
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National Guard troops were on standby as a precaution.
Police move in on a group of protesters Sunday in Milwaukee. “Subjectively there’s been less tonight than there was last night”, he said.
Remy Cross, a criminologist at Webster University in St. Louis, said the officer’s race probably does not matter to many people in the community.
Officials say Smith was armed with a gun at the time of the shooting. Police say threats have been made against him since rioting broke out Saturday night.
Police cited Smith’s “lengthy criminal record” as they identified him. Smith believes the shooting was not justified. “He was out here living his life”, Smith’s godmother, Katherine Mahmoud, told the Journal Sentinel.
Some two dozen officers in riot gear confronted a group who were throwing rocks and other objects at police near where the black man was fatally shot a day earlier. The gathering occurred in the neighborhood where a Milwaukee officer shot and killed a man police say was armed hours earlier during a foot chase.
Last year, a total of 990 people were fatally shot by police in the US, according to the Post.
The department is aware of some local threats against its officers and is investigating, according to the statement.
The shooting triggered unrest in the city’s north side Saturday night as protesters torched businesses and threw rocks at officers. “Get them home right now before more damage is done”, Barrett said. Residents there say the city has been unresponsive to their needs. Such inequality has afflicted many USA cities as a result of companies’ moving manufacturing jobs overseas over the past three decades and economically devastating the communities that grew such businesses.
The problems began Saturday afternoon when police stopped a rental auto that was driving suspiciously, Flynn said. Before he was killed, Smith refused to drop an illegal handgun he was carrying, police said. Four officers were injured, as was a 16-year-old girl who was hit by what Flynn thought was crossfire, and 17 people were arrested-most for civil disobedience, but four for burglary. Four officers were injured Sunday, and one other person suffered a gunshot wound from an unknown non-police shooter.
As the sun dawned Monday, police had 14 people in custody – 11 men and three women – on charges of state disorderly conduct.
“It’s the police. This is the madness that they spark up”. The officer who fired the deadly shot was also black. Flynn cautioned that the shooting was still under investigation and that authorities were awaiting autopsy results, but that the officer “certainly appeared to be within lawful bounds”, based on video from his body camera.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has started its independent investigation into the Saturday shooting of Slyville Smith.
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Police Chief Edward Flynn said on Sunday that video from the officer’s body camera showed Smith had turned toward the officer with a gun in his hand. “I had to blame myself for a lot of things, too, because your hero is your dad and I played a very big part in my family’s role model for them”, Patrick Smith told WITI TV in an interview on Sunday.
