Crime & Safety

Second Night of Disorder in Sherman Park

More violence following Saturday's police shooting of an armed suspect

MILWAUKEE -- With the city still coping with the aftermath of Saturday night's violence, disorder again hit Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood late Sunday.

According to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with shots ringing out protesters threw rocks, bricks, and glass bottles at police. A shooting victim was rescued by officers and whisked to a hospital in an armored vehicle. Later another 18-year-old man would be rushed to hospital with a serious gunshot injury and a police officer was taken to hospital after a rock was thrown through the windshield of his squad car.

Around 11 p.m. police dressed in riot gear moved in to disperse a crowd at Sherman Blvd. and Burleigh St. when protesters began throwing objects.

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