In all, 37 people have been arrested since Saturday night, police said. Flynn said the man “doesn’t seem to be in medical danger”.
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Since then, he said the amount of vehicle traffic and the number of people on the streets has declined.
He described the situation in the city as improved compared with Sunday night.
The Milwaukee unrest has taken on a more explicitly racist cast than other riots after officer-involved shootings, in yet another new low for the anti-police movement that has roiled our cities in recent years.
Residents in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood woke up Tuesday morning to a quieter neighborhood after Monday proved to be calmer than the previous nights marred by violence and destruction. Gunshots were fired, businesses were set ablaze, people were detained and police vehicles damaged after a confrontation between police and protestors turned violent Saturday night in Milwaukee in the north-central USA state of Wisconsin.
Milwaukee is imposing a 10 p.m. curfew for teenagers in an effort to quell a third night of rioting.
Police made six arrests Monday night in Milwaukee, as protesters continued to vent their frustrations over the shooting death of an armed black man, Sylville Smith, on Saturday. Wisconsin was the first state to enact a law requiring an independent investigation of a death involving law enforcement, the governor said.
Asked at the news conference why officers had stopped the auto on Saturday, Police Chief Edward Flynn said the officers had not been interviewed yet and that they would be interviewed later on Monday. But the finger pointing has already begun with Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn charging that much of the violence was caused by agitators coming up from Chicago. The individual did turn toward the officer with the firearm in his hand.
“After 10 o’clock your teenagers better be home or in a place where they’re off the streets”, Barrett told the city’s residents.
Flynn said the officer is now staying with relatives out of town.
But Flynn said clearly, the community is taking a leadership role in reducing tension in the neighborhood. The department also said 14 people were arrested. They targeted police with gunshots, rocks and bottles.
Milwaukee was beset by protests and calls for police reform after an officer shot and killed Dontre Hamilton, a mentally ill black man, in 2014. Barrett says he’s concerned about the economic damage being done to the Sherman Park neighborhood.
“In the park not far from where Sylville Smith lost his life, dozens of people gathered earlier in the day for a prayer vigil – and to clean the debris around the gas station that was destroyed Saturday night”.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin says the deputies were hit by concrete or rocks and that two of them haven’t returned to duty.
Later on, shots rang out in three different locations, all within close proximity, according to police. Police had to use an armored vehicle to rescue him.
“They say they have a lot of concerns for their public safety, personal safety and for the safety of their colleagues”.
Milwaukee has a population of about 600,000 people, with almost 40 percent African-American – many of whom are heavily concentrated on the north side of the city.
An officer was also injured during Sunday night’s riots. There has been no update on his condition.
Police say they are seeking suspects in the shooting.
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“I want our community to know that”, Barrett said. They set cars on fire and hurled rocks at police, appearing to throw whatever they could get their hands on. In a city that is noted to be the worst habitat for Black people, the least that should be added to their problems is the continuous killing of their own people.
