An 18-year-old man was shot and seriously injured at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the man and take him to a hospital, as tense skirmishes erupted for a second night following Saturday’s police shooting of a black man.
Some two dozen officers in riot gear confronted about 150 people who blocked an intersection on Sunday near the scene of the fatal shooting. Police moved in to try to disperse the crowd and warned of arrests after protesters threw bottles and rocks at police and shots were fired.
Four deputies were injured during the Sunday night melee when they were hit by concrete or rocks, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said. Two of those deputies haven’t returned to duty.
“I won’t be happy until these creep rioters crawl back in their hole,” Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said on Fox News.
Earlier Sunday, police Chief Edward Flynn said the man whose death touched off Saturday night’s rioting was shot after he turned toward an officer with a gun in his hand.
Flynn cautioned that the shooting was still under investigation and authorities were awaiting autopsy results, but that based on the silent video from the unidentified officer’s body camera, he “certainly appeared to be within lawful bounds.”