The mayor said some involved in the disturbances took to social media early in the evening to encourage others to come out and participate in trouble-making. Barrett says the officer was wearing a body camera.
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Angry demonstrators clashed with police in Milwaukee on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a man with a gun during a foot chase that turned deadly.
A police officer was injured after a stone was thrown at his auto and shattered his window.
“We’re going to see over the next number of hours and the next number of days what information [investigators] feel comfortable releasing to the public, Alexander said”.
“We’re calling on everyone to do what they possible can to restore calm in these neighborhoods”, Barrett said.
The protests happened on the city’s predominantly black north side.
Just blocks away from the riots, two people were shot and killed Friday and Saturday, bringing to five the number of people who died in shootings in the city during a nine-hour stretch.
Protesters torched four buildings, including a gas station. Footage from a news helicopter also appeared to show a small grocery store had been looted.
A traffic signal was also bent and bus shelters overturned. Several businesses were set alight during the unrest.
The suspect, 23, was shot twice – in the arm and chest, the mayor said. Stanmeyer said he had an arrest record, and that the handgun he carried had been stolen in a March burglary in suburban Waukesha.
Near the end of the news conference, Alderman Khalif Rainey linked Saturday’s violence to the ongoing tension between police and frustrated black Milwaukeeans, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Violence has broken out on the streets of the U.S. city of Milwaukee, after an armed man, 23, was shot dead in a police chase on Saturday.
At 2:20 am (0720 GMT), police said they were restoring order to the area and reducing deployments.
Protected with shields and helmets, police moved through the crowd telling them to disperse.
One police officer was hospitalized with a head injury after a brick was thrown through the window of his patrol auto.
Local officials called for calm and vowed to meet with community and church leaders throughout the day to try to figure out how to prevent the shockingly violent scenes that quickly engulfed Milwaukee’s north side Saturday night from happening again. The suspects then began to run.
Milwaukee police assistant chief Bill Jessup told the Milwaukee journal Sentinel that it was not clear if the suspect pointed the gun or fired at the officers. Protesters also broke the windows of an unoccupied squad vehicle and torched another, police said.
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According to police, the 23-year-old suspect fled after he and another man were pulled over for “suspicious activity”. A second 23-year-old man was taken into custody, police said.
