“There are a lot of really, really good people who live in this area, in the Sherman Park area, who can’t stand, just like any of us, who can’t stand this violence and they want order restored”, Mayor Tom Barrett told reporters, as he pleaded for calm.
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Hours after the shooting, protesters skirmished with police.
Police said at least three people had been arrested as of early Sunday. He promised a full and open investigation into the police-involved shooting.
Mayor Barrett said the officer was wearing a body camera which was operating at the time of the shooting.
Officials in Milwaukee are asking the community for help restoring order on the city’s north side. Police said earlier that he was carrying a gun that had been stolen in a March burglary in suburban Waukesha. But the daytime encounter with Jesse Hanes and James Nelson on Friday turned out to be deadly for one of the eight police officers in Hatch, 190 miles south of Albuquerque. He warned parents to ask their children to come home if they are out on the streets protesting.
Alderman Ashanti Hamilton promised to get information about the shooting to the public.
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When the gas station was set ablaze, there were three people in the building and all got out safely, he said.
Protesters also appeared to vandalize traffic lights and a bus shelter.
The latest violence comes after several police officers have been targeted and shot to death across the nation in recent weeks amid a nationwide outcry over the deaths of unarmed African Americans at the hands of police. In the related attacks August 9, a man was shot dead while another one was fatally stabbed, police said.
Swiss train stabbings – Police in Switzerland said a Swiss man set a fire and stabbed people on a train in the country’s northeast, wounding six people as well as himself. Officers urged the crowds to disperse peacefully as some threw rocks at them, authorities said. A police officer was injured by a flying brick thrown through a squad vehicle window, police said, and the officer was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Police said crowds also broke the windows of an unoccupied squad auto and torched another.
More than 100 protesters took to the streets of the city’s north side on Saturday night after news of the shooting spread, erupting in clashes with police. Police say the man was armed and was shot during a foot chase that followed a traffic stop.
Authorities have said that gunshots were fired during the disturbance and windows of at least two police cars were smashed. Police said the man was armed with a handgun, but Assistant Chief Bill Jessup said that it wasn’t immediately clear whether the man had pointed a gun or fired at the officer.
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“This stop took place because two officers. saw suspicious activity”, Mr Barrett said.
