An armed thug got himself killed by police and #BLMers in Milwaukee responded with rioting, arson and looting.
You think?
Mr. Lebourgeois said that he did not condone violence and that he advocated cooperation with the police, but he also remarked: “It seems to me they’re doing a lot of shooting people. I don’t know if these guys are bringing it on themselves or not. That’s why I just try to stay out of the way. But I know nothing like this is happening on the south side.”
Maybe not too many armed thugs are refusing to drop their weapon on the south side.
Carol Office, 50, watched the prayer rally from a short distance away. She identified herself as the aunt of Mr. Smith, the shooting victim, and said she had spent the day “crying and praying.”
She held a poster covered in pictures of black slaves and Bible verses about slavery and said police shootings of black people made her feel like “we’re back in chains.”
Back in chains because your Dindu Nuffin nephew got himself shot? The world really needs a slavery version of the Godwin law. Although, given US race relations there'd be too many violators.
“They are supposed to serve and protect us, but they shooting us,” Ms. Office said.
They are serving and protecting law-abiding citizens by shooting thugs who run around with stolen firearms. 90% of the time, black killers kill fellow blacks.
Jessie Griffin, a pastor at Greater New Birth Church, who led the rally, said he wanted the crowd to pray for the police.
“At the end of the day, we need our law enforcement officers,” he said. “If I have a problem in my home, I’m going to call 911. I’m going to pray for them because they have a pretty hard job to do.”
A pastor making sense? Hallelujah!
The police said two uniformed officers stopped two people in a car around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The police did not provide details on why the car was stopped beyond describing it as raising suspicion.
Both occupants immediately ran from the car. During the pursuit, an officer ordered Mr. Smith to drop his gun and fired when he did not, striking Mr. Smith in the chest and an arm, Mr. Barrett said Sunday morning. The gun held 23 rounds, he said. Mr. Smith died at the scene.
Being shot in the chest means that the perp turned around. While holding a gun. Getting shot is the expected outcome.
The Saturday shooting was part of a weekend filled with violence in Milwaukee. Five people were shot and killed overnight Friday, Mr. Barrett said on Saturday at a news conference recorded by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. At least two of those shootings occurred near where Mr. Smith was shot.
The kind of killings #BLM cares not one bit about.
More on the latest cause celebre of the #BLM movement:
Man killed by Milwaukee police had lengthy record
The man shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer Saturday was charged last year in a shooting and then charged with trying to intimidate a witness in that shooting.
Sylville Smith, 23, was fatally shot after he refused to drop a gun, which was loaded with 23 rounds, police said.
Smith had been in trouble with the law dating back at least to 2011, according to arrest records released by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office late Sunday. He was arrested or ticketed nine times in that period — for the shooting, a robbery, carrying a concealed weapon, theft, possession of heroin and more. His most recent arrest was July 22 for possession of cocaine, records show.
Last year, Smith was charged with first-degree recklessly endangering safety and with witness intimidation, but the charges were dismissed, court records show.
Why were the charges dismissed? Because the intimidation worked.
The charges were dropped even though the prosecutors had recorded jail calls in which Smith asked his girlfriend to pressure the victim to recant, according to court records.
In the witness intimidation case, Smith was accused of pressuring the victim in a shooting to recant a statement identifying him as the suspect, according to the criminal complaint.
That case was dismissed at the preliminary hearing because the alleged victim reversed himself and he was, in fact, not intimidated by Smith, contrary to the allegations in the complaint, Chief Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern said Sunday in an email.
Nice guy! Went to church every week I bet and was about to turn his life around too ...
Smith's younger sister, Sherelle Smith, 22, said her brother carried a gun because he was scared and needed to protect himself, not because he was violent.
He didn't even like to argue, she said. He was known around the neighborhood for his style and dance moves, not for being part of a gang, she said.
"He was a ladies' man. That's the worst thing about him," she said.
Mhm.
