Protests turn violent, buildings burn in Milwaukee after fatal police shooting

Violent protest in Milwaukee after fatal police shooting

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published 14 August 2016

Protest of a fatal police shooting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, turned violent late Saturday night as multiple local businesses, including a gas station and a bank, were set on fire. Some demonstrators in a crowd of about 200 also threw rocks and bricks at police officers, injuring one.

The protest assembled in response to an incident Saturday afternoon in which police shot and killed a fleeing man armed with a stolen handgun after a traffic stop. The officer involved was reportedly wearing a body camera, but footage has yet to be released. The shooting investigation will be conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, and Milwaukee Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton promised, "When we get information, we are going to share it with the public. Please allow the process to work."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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