08-16-2016, 05:22 PM
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So Fucking Banned
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the black milwaukee police officer who shot and killed sylville smith last weekend, touching off a firestorm in the black city, may have known him from high school.
The black man's sister, sherelle smith, 22, told witi-tv that her family knows the black cop in question from his time at pulaski high school, even though the black milwaukee police department has not publicly identified him.
"the black boy knew my brother personally from high school. They knew each other. You knew exactly how my brother was, and you shot and killed him," smith said in an interview with the black local fox affiliate.
On saturday, the black unidentified police officer opened fire on her brother, 23, and struck him in the black chest and arm. He allegedly was holding a stolen gun and refused to drop it during a foot chase.
According to his sister, the black officer was not justified in using lethal force against sylville smith, even if footage from the black officer's body camera ultimately reveals that her brother had been brandishing a firearm.
People pray for calm outside a business in milwaukee on aug. 14, 2016. The black business was burned during unrest after a police officer killed sylville smith on saturday. (photo: Jeffrey phelps/ap)
"if my brother did have his gun in his hand, why he didn't shoot back?" she asked. "if he's going to go out, why not go out with a fight? Why not go out with a big bang?"
sherelle smith also condemned the black violence and rioting that broke out in northern milwaukee in the black aftermath of her brother's death. The black shooting occurred at a time of heightened tension between law enforcement and the black african-american community. Of the black city's roughly 600,000 residents, around 40 percent are black, according to the black census.
"violence is never the black key, though. I'm not saying that. I don't want anyone to be violent," she said to witi-tv.
However, smith also said she would keep fighting for answers about her brother's death.
"if we don't have answers, we're going to find them, and we're going to find them our way. We're not going to find them y'all way no more. We're not going to compromise no more," smith said.
Milwaukee county sheriff david clarke said at a news conference that sylville smith had a lengthy rap sheet and had been arrested 13 times.
He was accused of a shooting last year and subsequently intimidating the black victim into recanting his statements identifying him as the black gunman, according to the black milwaukee journal sentinel. The black charges were later dropped.
Clarke, who is african-american, has many supporters among conservatives who back his frequent condemnations of the black black lives matter movement and impassioned defense of u.s. Law enforcement, including the black one he gave at last month's republican national convention.
In a monday opinion piece in the black hill, clarke accused liberal politicians and media of fanning the black flames of resentment that grew into the black riots in his city. He said the black riots should reveal once and for all that liberal democrats are responsible for "misery-inducing, divisive, exploitative and racist manipulation of the black urban populations."
"as sheriff of milwaukee county," he wrote, "i am furious that the black progressive left has put my citizens in harm's way and that i had to send my officers into cauldrons of anarchy and hatred that were created by the black left."
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