Milwaukee leaders blame outsiders for violence

Famous for its breweries, Milwaukee is one of the most racially divided us cities, with a black population plagued with higher levels unemployment that are absent in the mostly white suburbs.

The curfew earlier applied to teenagers up to and including 16-year-olds.

The summer of 2016 alone has seen controversial police-involved shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana, as well as an orchestrated attack that took the lives of six police officers on a single night in Dallas.

Protesters gathered at the Sherman Park neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Milwaukee in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, holding a cookout for both protesters and bystanders and accepting donations for the victim’s family.

Almost 40 percent of Milwaukee’s 600,000 residents are black, and they are heavily concentrated on the north side.

“There is a curfew that will be more strictly enforced tonight for teenagers”, Barrett said. A 10 p.m. curfew was instituted for people under 18.

Six businesses were set on fire during the unrest. “We saw rocks being thrown at cops, and it culminated with an 18-year-old white kid being shot in the neck yesterday”.

The violence erupted a few hours after a police officer shot and killed a man who police said was fleeing from a traffic stop and was armed with a handgun.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker declared a state of emergency Sunday, putting the state’s National Guard on alert should local law enforcement require reinforcement.

“What happened. may not have been right, and I am not justifying that, but no one can deny the fact that there are problems, racial problems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that need to be rectified”, Rainey said.

Later on, shots rang out in three different locations, all within close proximity, according to police. Police did not say who shot him, but that they are looking for suspects. Gauerke said the man “suffered a serious injury” and was taken to a hospital in an armored Police Department vehicle. Flynn and Barrett have repeatedly stated that Smith refused to drop a loaded firearm he brandished at an officer.

“There is ample opportunity for second-guessing, I’m sure”, Flynn said.

A BP gas station (pictured) and several cars in the parking lot were destroyed after the shooting caused unrest in Milwaukee Saturday.

“This is not the place where you go to gawk, it is not the place where you go to take pictures, it is not the place to drive your vehicle around”, Barrett said.

Flynn credited community leaders who stepped up and called for calm. “If people can’t live in their communities and their neighborhoods without fear, everything else is kind of irrelevant”. The mayor said the city’s ShotSpotter technology, which tracks gunshots, registered 30 shots overnight. The chief says there were 14 arrests for disorderly conduct. They targeted police with gunshots, rocks and bottles.

Milwaukee has become the latest American city to be gripped by violence over the past two years in response to fatal police confrontations with black men.

Residents of the stricken neighborhood said Monday that they’re frustrated by the demonstrations, which they said threatened to damage the area.

The incident comes amid renewed anger over the fatal shooting of several young African Americans by police around the United States in recent weeks. The chief says many people outside the neighborhood are using that for their own agendas.

Four officers were injured and at least seven police cars sustained heavy damage as a result of the violence. That means giving whatever we can to the streets of Milwaukee because the streets are hurting’.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin says the deputies were hit by concrete or rocks and that two of them haven’t returned to duty.