A handful of Milwaukee’s Black Panthers say they want to meet with city leaders about violence on the city’s north side following the shooting of a black man by police.
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Police rush a man into a vehicle after getting pelted by rocks in Milwaukee, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the shooting as required by state law.
An 18-year-old male was shot in the neck during the chaos.
Gov. Walker, a Republican who mounted a failed campaign this year for president, reassured residents that he knew “there are larger issues than what happened this weekend to address” in Milwaukee, which is one of the most segregated cities in America, according to a report late last year by the nonprofit Brookings Institution. However, the department is investigating local threats against officers.
Milwaukee’s mayor says a 10 p.m. curfew on teenagers will from now on be strictly enforced.
His death led to the latest eruption of violence between protesters and police after a spate of deaths of black men at the hands of officers across the United States over the summer. Police had to use an armored vehicle to rescue him.
Authorities said Monday that the man was shot during a second night of unrest in the Sherman Park neighborhood on Milwaukee’s north side. Police said the officer shot Smith after he failed to comply with orders to put his gun down. Demonstrations also unfolded after 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot and killed in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, during a traffic stop by a Latino police officer.
The arrests follow skirmishes between protesters and police but without the widespread destruction of property that marked the first night after the man’s death.
Flynn said it was “an error in narrative to assume” that because police shot someone that the shooting will be controversial “so let’s have a riot”.
The number of arrests was not immediately known. An injured officer was taken to a hospital after a rock broke the windshield of his squad auto, police said. His group advocates dismantling the police.
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She said: “If my brother did have his gun in his hand, why he didn’t shoot back?”
