Calmer night follows unrest in Milwaukee neighborhood

There were 10 arrests overnight Monday, and no injuries or damage to vehicles, businesses or residences. The officer is staying with relatives out of town, Flynn said.

Such inequality has afflicted many USA cities as a result of the loss of manufacturing jobs over the past three decades, sometimes stoking unrest when police use deadly force.

An officer was also injured during Sunday night’s riots.

A burned down liquor store is seen after disturbances following the police shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 15, 2016.

Police say Smith was stopped on Saturday afternoon for behaving suspiciously and that he then fled on foot between two homes. Police did not say who shot him, but that they are looking for suspects.

The fatal shooting Saturday of a black man by a black policeman is under investigation by the state.

“We think we are, comparatively speaking, in a positive place”, Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said during the press conference.

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.

The man, whose name has not been released, was shot late Sunday during a demonstration to protest the killing of a black man by a police officer a day earlier.

Milwaukee police have not released the police officer’s name, and have said he is on administrative leave.

A man was shot and injured early Monday as weekend violence and rioting sparked by an officer-involved shooting of a black man Saturday spilled into early Monday morning in Milwaukee.

In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where 37-year-old Alton Sterling was fatally shot in July during a struggle with two white police officers, protests largely dissipated after three law enforcement officers were killed in a shooting attack that appeared to target police.

A total of 41 people have been arrested since Saturday night in the neighborhood. “Subjectively there’s been less tonight than there was last night”.

Barrett added Monday night’s peaceful gatherings were “very encouraging” but remained cautious that “things could happen” later in the evening while Flynn credited community leaders and pastors for leading the charge for peace.

Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown, 24, a two-year veteran of the department, shot Smith, according to the NY Daily News.

Police Chief Edward Flynn says the fatal shooting of Sylville Smith on Saturday was a flashpoint for underlying tensions. “It doesn’t matter to them if what the authorities are saying is true”. He also said the officer shot Smith in the chest and arm.

Around 10:30 p.m., however, a group of perhaps 100 demonstrators began marching through the streets, eventually blocking an intersection next to a BP gas station that burned down the night before.