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Milwaukee Crowd Turns Violent After Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man
NBC ^ | 14 Aug 2016 | Phil Helsel

Posted on 08/14/2016 7:45:02 AM PDT by mandaladon

Violence and protests erupted in Milwaukee overnight after a man was fatally shot by police during a foot chase.

Police said the victim, 23, was armed with a handgun and shot dead by an officer after fleeing a traffic stop on Milwaukee's north side Saturday afternoon.

Hours later angry crowds took to the streets, smashing a police car and setting fire to another. One officer was injured by a flying brick; a gas station and auto-parts store were set alight. Police said gunshots were heard.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett pleaded for calm at an early morning news conference, asking residents to "do everything" to help restore order.

"If you love your son, if you love your daughter, text them, call them, pull them by the ears and get 'em home," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: blm; leo; milwaukee; trump
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To: mandaladon

I have multiple articles about this event and have yet to find article or story to point to where ANYONE (police, government or elected officials) are trying to prevent this from flaring up tonight,

THEY want this to happen and are doing nothing tangible to prevent it.


41 posted on 08/14/2016 8:18:57 AM PDT by Dacula (Southern lives matter!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The 82nd Airborne did just that.


42 posted on 08/14/2016 8:19:12 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: mandaladon

but he was a good kid

probly was gonna get a scholarship to play basketball

went to church every sunday

was in the prime of his life

best in his class

so much potential

was gonna go to college too

pro-ball prospect


43 posted on 08/14/2016 8:19:12 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: mandaladon

Violence is not going to help!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

What I would like to know is why the mayor told the police to stand down and let the arson happen. I believe that the law in Michigan allows deadly force to be used against arsonists,
like many jurisdictions.

The arsonists should have been shot in the process of lighting up buildings, regardless of what race they were and regardless of what their so called demands were.

Thats the duty the Mayor bit off when he took his oath of office.

The MAyor should be impeached, forthwith.


44 posted on 08/14/2016 8:21:11 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: WENDLE

They simply hate the (in their view) racist and oppressive police and see thugs as victims. They don’t want the cops to arrest black criminals (disparate incarceration rates and all that), nor do they want black neighborhoods policed (even though that will produce many more black victims). I even know white leftists who think this way.

Just to mention too, in his 2000 book, The American We Deserve, Trump talked about a lot of his wealthy friends giving their sympathy to the criminals rather than the victims. He thought that was really misguided, but that’s the direction many of our cities are headed in and the results are going to be devastating.


45 posted on 08/14/2016 8:22:05 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: mandaladon

So, now that these geniuses burned their own city, how many points does Trump gain in Wisconsin?


46 posted on 08/14/2016 8:22:17 AM PDT by Mjreagan
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To: mandaladon

We are in the early stages of the coming Social War. If present trends continue whites will lose the war dying by the millions.


47 posted on 08/14/2016 8:22:19 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: mandaladon

Looks like the people of Wisconsin need Paul Ryan to step in and restore peace and order with his mere presence. With his bleeding heart, Ryan can douse all the flames, literally and figuratively.


48 posted on 08/14/2016 8:23:11 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Dacula

“I have multiple articles about this event”

Any extra info on the shooting itself? I see that they found a gun and 23 rounds of ammo, but no details on the shooting itself. Was it a gunfight? Was the guy waving the gun around? Was the gun in a pocket or backpack and only found after the shooting?

So many details left out, thanks MSM for doing a horrible job as usual!


49 posted on 08/14/2016 8:24:39 AM PDT by walkingdead (It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
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To: Right Brother

Or G’onorrhea Brown?


50 posted on 08/14/2016 8:25:18 AM PDT by Lucas McCain (Liberalism is the willful embrace of abject stupidity.)
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To: headstamp 2
That’s it, burn down your own neighborhoods.

That's it! Destroy the neighborhood, in order to save it!

Bring in the Rome Plows!!!

51 posted on 08/14/2016 8:29:04 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: mandaladon

Trump is scheduled for a townhall Tuesday in Milwaukee.
The media spin will be awesome.


52 posted on 08/14/2016 8:31:19 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Texas Eagle

No, the graduation cap and gown is more effective. But of course, it’s always the grade school picture.

Because there is no high school graduation picture.


53 posted on 08/14/2016 8:31:38 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: headstamp 2

They were burning down their own neighborhood when I was a kid and they will still be doing it after I’m dead. Its who they are.


54 posted on 08/14/2016 8:31:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: walkingdead

Any extra info on the shooting itself?

NO, and that is my point. No one wants to stop this from occurring again today.

Lord knows that they don’t have to go to work tomorrow.

I have to spend the day getting ready for the week and working 55 hours.

BTW, I love my job and do not mind the hours I put in.


55 posted on 08/14/2016 8:32:45 AM PDT by Dacula (Southern lives matter!)
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To: The Antiyuppie
Ah, yes. The grade school picture. The cute bowtie and the shy smile trying to hid the braces.

Always a crowd distracter, upp, I mean, pleaser.

56 posted on 08/14/2016 8:33:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

This is very dangerous. Police and law enforcement will just quit. We are looking at anarchy. I guess that is what the communists want. If they had reasonable positions on abuse, I could support them on a fact based situation but they humiliate themselves with crap like Ferguson and their disastrous failure to even get a single conviction in Baltimore. I don’t know of a single convection of an officer anywhere. There is no shame even when their lies and contrived stories are brutally exposed as lies.


57 posted on 08/14/2016 8:36:45 AM PDT by WENDLE (ok thanks!!)
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To: Right Brother

Very good.


58 posted on 08/14/2016 8:37:13 AM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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To: Vinnie
How was it presented, ?? The driver was unarmed !! Excuse me.. What about the 3000 lb car?

Same slant as used with Mrs Clinton
Sadly the low info types take it hook, line and sinker.

59 posted on 08/14/2016 8:38:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: mandaladon

re:
“ Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett pleaded for calm at an early morning news conference, asking residents to “do everything” to help restore order.

“If you love your son, if you love your daughter, text them, call them, pull them by the ears and get ‘em home,” he said.”

Another panty-waist lily livered oh-don’t-hurt-them!!
(you might fathom my next words ... as the man with no name said, ‘Get’em ready’)


60 posted on 08/14/2016 8:41:05 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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