The unrest began after police shot and killed a man who officials said was armed. Officers pulled over a “suspicious vehicle” on Saturday afternoon, according to Milwaukee’s mayor, and two people fled the vehicle and ran in different directions.
A Milwaukee officer who had been with the department for six years chased one of the men, an unidentified 23-year-old.
The officer “ordered that individual to drop his gun,” Mayor Tom Barrett said in a televised news conference. “He did not drop his gun. He held the gun — or I should say I don’t know that for a fact, but he had the gun with him — and the officer fired seven times.”
The man was hit twice, in the chest and in the arm, Barrett said, adding that the unidentified officer had a body camera that was “operating” during the shooting. The shooting will be examined by state investigators, he said.
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