Barrett has repeatedly asked parents and guardians to keep their children away from the Sherman Park neighborhood.
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Smith’s encounter with police began when a pair of officers stopped him and another person in a auto Saturday afternoon, police said.
This is not necessarily a new law.
Milwaukee is a city of about 600,000 people.
The shooting was captured on video.
“I’m hopeful that will not be necessary”, the mayor said.
Flynn said that while police came under fire Sunday night, “none of our officers returned fire”. This followed an initial night of unrest, when protesters torched six buildings and seven squad cars, and a police officer suffered a concussion after being struck by a rock tossed through a vehicle window.
Smith was allegedly armed with a semiautomatic handgun when a Black police officer shot him. “That foot chase went maybe a few dozen feet before he encountered this individual in a fenced yard”, Flynn said. Police said the officer shot Smith after he failed to comply with orders to put his gun down.
Police stand guard during disturbances following the police shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “I am going to utilize all available resources to accomplish that”, Clarke said.
Tension has flared again in Milwaukee, with one person shot and a police officer injured in a second night of riots triggered by the fatal shooting of a suspect by an officer.
Because the audio was delayed, he said, it was not clear when the officer fired his weapon. Barrett also moved the summer curfew one hour earlier, to 10 p.m., and warned it would be enforced more tightly after violence that has marred the city’s north side following the fatal police shooting of a black man. He was the 16th person shot and killed by police this year in Wisconsin, according to the Washington Post.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is investigating Mr Smith’s death, as required by state law for police-involved shootings. Chief Flynn confirmed that the police officer was also African-American, and pulled over Mr. Smith because his vehicle was “behaving suspiciously”.
Barrett said 125 National Guard members had been activated, but would not be deployed unless Flynn determined they were needed.
At a news conference Sunday, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn did not identify the officer who shot Smith, except that he was a 24, had been on the force for several years, and was black.
Cecil Brewer, 67, who owns an apartment house directly across from the intersection where protesters burned a gas station on Saturday night and hurled rocks at police on Sunday night, said the rioting was all but inevitable.
Milwaukee teens had better make sure they get home Monday night.
Earlier on Sunday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Jen Friedman said President Obama had been briefed on the events that took place in Milwaukee. Police haven’t said who shot the man, but that they continue to look for suspects.
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Alderman Khalif Rainey, who represents the neighborhood where the incident occurred, had suggested on Sunday that failure to deal with the frustrations of Milwaukee’s black residents – poverty, jobless, lack of opportunity – could lead to unrest elsewhere in the city, including downtown where hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in redevelopment. Milwaukee has the largest black population in the state, and the poverty rate for blacks living in Milwaukee is 32.9% (in 2014, it was 14.5% nationwide).
