At the same news conference, Mayor Tom Barrett said a still image pulled from the footage clearly showed the gun in 23-year-old Sylville K. Smith’s hand as he fled a traffic stop Saturday.
“I want our community to know that,” Barrett said. But he also called for understanding for Smith’s family.
“A young man lost his life yesterday afternoon,” the mayor said. “And no matter what the circumstances are, his family has to be hurting.”
Flynn declined to identify the officer who shot Smith but said he is black. The police chief said he wasn’t sure what prompted the stop but described Smith’s car as “behaving suspiciously.”
After watching the officer’s body camera footage, Flynn said the entire episode took about 25 seconds, from the start of the traffic stop until shots were fired. He said Smith ran “a few dozen feet” and turned toward the officer while holding a gun.
“It was in his hand. He was raising up with it,” the chief said. He said it was unclear how many rounds the officer fired.
Body cameras are messing stuff up. That was dumb pushing for those.
People believe the narative cops shoot black people gun or no gun.
For the record this mayor is a liberal. Milwaukee is supposed to be under his control.
7th gade gym class…..they had numbers spaced two feet apart and all you had to do was cover your number that was assigned to you with your foot, when the gym teacher walked down and looked at numbers ….Del Tolin was a Korean war vet with a crew cut, he took no shit….He looked down and saw that Jimmy Lewis was absent again even though Jimmy Lewis was standing there and not covering his number….now, Jimmy Lewis hadn’t been to class for a month even though he was in school…Del looked down and said …ABSENT AGAIN….Jimmy Lewis spoke up and said….Mr. Tolin, you just don’t like us niggahs cuz we black….that was 1972….How we doin’?….
He was a good boy and was surely taking the gun to a “buy back” station.
All large cities are run by liberals.
The mayor looks like a white guy, what he says does not count.
Permission to kill rioters granted – do the right thing.
Tom Barret lost to Scott Walker in 2010 Govenors race 52 to 46. He’s a big anti gun prog.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election,_2010
They’re rioting since it’s a day that ends in a y. And it’s a Dindu Nuffin. When will the police stop shooting a Dindu Nuffin?
willysgoatgruff,
Stuff like that is why I ran track all year for four years. Gym had nothing to do with physical fitness, or even participation, when it came to getting a grade.
Is your uniform dirty? Zero for the day.
No such crap in Athletics.
Smith seems like another Obama son.
And mama is already coming round asking for donations and the officer to be charged!!
(Insert intense profanity here)
It is way past time for these stupid mamas to just have the pizz slapped out of them! NO!! No more ghetto lottery for fambuhleez of ferals and no more ‘Burn dis mudda phawka down!!’ jackwads in the streets.
And that councilman Khalif should be horse-whipped on the city hall lawn!! WTF is wrong with these people!?
Good on Sheriff Clarke, the city Chief and Gov. Walker for putting a choke-chain on that pansy-azz mayor, too! They shut up his “Legitimate grievances” pandering PDQ!!
Guess we’ll see what new absurdity tonight brings.
What the hell is wrong with the police? Don’cha know it’s 2016 and Obama is President. You’re not suppose to go after black criminals.
But he was such a good boy. Getting ready to go to college on a full scholarship. He dindu nuffin wong.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/289513-meet-sylville-smith-the-man-shot-by-police-in-milwaukee-through-the-eyes-of-his-friends/
Mickey, Barrett runs as a Democrat, but is a socialist at heart. Milwaukee was run by pols running on the Socialist ticket for decades.
His first press conference on Saturday, he blamed guns and the Republican state legislature for not outlawing guns. And he wanted to be our Gov.
And since when, during the Obama reign, has any true fact been allowed to obfuscate the lies and crime? Hell, what’s good enough for Hillary, Obama, the IRS, DOJ, FBI, oh heck, this could go on forever.
How long before just finding a black person dead will be cause for a riot? After all, had ‘whitey’ not fought free abortions BEFORE Obama, that poor, upstanding black citizen would not have been born into a life of oppression, free welfare, gangs, drugs, etc.