Violence erupts after officer-involved shooting

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The clash comes after a series of tense episodes in Milwaukee involving residents and police, including one just before the Fourth of July weekend near Sherman Park.

A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase on the city's north side.

After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported at 10:15 p.m. that a gas station at N. Sherman Blvd. and W. Burleigh St. was set on fire. Police said firefighters could not for a time get close to the blaze because of gunshots.

Later, fires were started at businesses — including a BMO Harris Bank branch, a beauty supply company and O'Reilly Auto Parts stores — near N. 35th and W. Burleigh streets, a grim and emphatic Mayor Tom Barrett said. He spoke at a midnight news conference at the District 3 police station at N. 49th St. and W. Lisbon Ave.

He and Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton pleaded with the public for calm. Barrett promised a strong police presence in coming days.


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. He said many of them were young people, and he urged parents to keep tight reins on their children to avoid a repeat of Saturday night.


"Our police officers are doing everything they can to restore order," he said. But he said everyone needed to help restore calm.

"If you love your son, if you love your daughter, text them, call them, pull them by their ears, get them home."

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One thing that I simply do not understand, Ferguson comes to mind, is why in the hell do these people insist on burning the damn businesses down???
What is the point of it?
All they are doing is hurting their own community.

Their anger should be directed at the police, not the people who help support the community by opening a business there.
Now their employees are going to be out of a job, no thanks to this barbaric mentality of "hey, let's burn this town down"

Of course, many of these young black teens get off on violence and thrive on tearing/burning shit up.
So any excuse they can find, they will use it to their advantage to cause mayhem.


And IMO, anyone who promotes violence on social media, encouraging others to join in the chaos, causing more destruction to the area and stress to the residents, ought to be held personally responsible for instigating more trouble.