Officers did not return gunfire all night, in a show of “tactical and strategic restraint”, he said.
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By Monday morning, many residents called for healing as prayer circles formed in the neighborhood in which the businesses were burned.
Community outrage over police misconduct is fueled by decades of poor relationships and mistrust between police and black communities – in Milwaukee, in Minnesota and elsewhere across the nation.
All this has led to a strict enforcement of a 10 p.m. curfew for teens in the city, FOX 6 reports.
Then-mayor Henry Maier put the entire city under a 24-hour curfew. Flynn said the man “doesn’t seem to be in medical danger”.
That group released a statement later Monday referring to the protests as a “righteous rebellion”.
(AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps). Police move in on people throwing rocks at police in Milwaukee, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016.
“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.
“Following a request from Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, and after discussions with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Adjutant General Donald Dunbar I have activated the Wisconsin National Guard to be in a position to aid local law enforcement upon request”, Wisconsin Gov.
Sunday evening had initially begun peacefully as residents had gathered to mourn Smith as his family and friends held a candlelight vigil at the site of Saturday’s shooting in a residential area of North Milwaukee.
Bullets struck an armored police vehicle’s windshield, and a rock broke through a police auto windshield, sending glass fragments into the eyes of two officers, the chief said. The chief said Smith was armed with a gun and pointed it at the officer.
After watching the officer’s body camera footage, Flynn said Smith had run “a few dozen feet” and turned toward the officer while holding a gun.
“There were 23 rounds in that gun that that officer was staring at”.
Smith died at the scene, and no officers were injured.
Community members in Milwaukee are rallying around the city’s police force, showing their appreciation in the middle of protests and riots that broke out starting Saturday. He will be placed on administrative duty during an investigation. He added that everyone arrested had a prior criminal record. “At the end of the day, acting out ain’t gonna solve it”, she said. Last December, the U.S. Justice Department announced it was conducting a review of the department. State law requires all police shootings to be investigated by an independent state agency, giving the state control over such evidence.
The Milwaukee Police Association hit back at the suggestion race may have played an issue in Smith’s shooting and condemned the riots. The shooting ‘was like a spark in a powder keg.
DeShawn Corprue, 31, who lives behind the burned-out BP station, said nothing that police released about Smith’s death would have stopped the weekend’s unrest.
Rainey said Saturday’s violence was a byproduct of inequities, injustice, unemployment and lack of educational opportunities.
Racial tensions have long permeated the city.
‘People are just so angry, ‘ he said.
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Famed for its breweries, Milwaukee is also one of the most segregated cities in America, with a large concentration of unemployed black men in the inner city separated from the mostly white suburbs.
