“We have to have calm”, Barrett said at the news conference.
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Seven police officers were injured in a second night of violence Sunday that stretched into the early hours of Monday.
Barrett said body cam video of the fatal shooting would help diffuse tensions in the city.
Indeed, as PBS observed earlier this year, Milwaukee is “one of the worst places in the country for African-Americans to reside”.
On Flynn’s suggestion that members of his party were responsible for any violence, Dix said: “If anybody wants to allege that our people were actually committing those acts, they should bring that to us”. The park is typically open until 10 p.m. The US Justice Department found that Ferguson police “violated citizens’ rights” during protests there in 2014, while a reputable law enforcement think tank found “major shortcomings” in how Baltimore police responded to the Freddie Gray riots a year ago.
Almost 40 percent of Milwaukee’s 600,000 residents are black, and they are heavily concentrated on the north side. Milwaukee’s typical 11 p.m. curfew only applied to people under 17 during the school year. An 18-year-old was shot near the intersection.
Mr Smith’s death is the latest in a string of shootings involving police and black men which have sparked violent protests across the US. The shooting is being investigated by the state. “The vast preponderance of the community in this neighborhood has responded to positive messaging and is clearly not interested in doing damage to where they live”, Flynn said. Police did not say who shot him, but that they are looking for suspects. Flynn said the man “doesn’t seem to be in medical danger”.
He also said the city may have hesitated to give the officer’s race sooner for fear it would identify him.
Milwaukee’s mayor says a 10 p.m. curfew on teenagers will from now on be strictly enforced.
His death saw protests in the city and three police officers were killed in a shooting attack which appeared to target police.
The city of Milwaukee finally had a calm night Monday after violence over the weekend, and officials hope that signals a shift toward unity and peace. On Sunday, officers were injured by protesters hurling objects and chunks of concrete.
The Milwaukee Police Department under Flynn’s leadership has been criticized for the department’s misrepresentation of crime statistics, which underreported assaults to hide an increasing rate, and for an extramarital affair with a local journalist.
“Those people, in my mind, were deliberately trying to damage a great neighborhood, in a great city”. The chief says many people outside the neighborhood are using that for their own agendas. Angry crowds pelted riot police with bottles and bricks. Officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve him and take him to a hospital.
Clarke decried “urban pathologies” and a “war on police”-popular right-wing catchphrases-in impoverished, largely black communities for the demonstrations and the shooting that provoked them”. There has been no update on his condition. Some torched businesses and police cars, and gunshots were fired.
Chief Edward Flynn is briefing a closed meeting of city council members Tuesday morning.
Milwaukee teens had better make sure they get home Monday night. However, that number dwindled down to just six arrests on Monday night, ABC News reported.
Milwaukee avoided a third night of rioting as teenagers respected a late-night curfew following the fatal shooting of an armed black man.
But there was no repeat of the widespread destruction of property.
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Police said the man who was shot had an arrest record. Police moved in to try to disperse the crowd. 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.
