I know the segregation and lack of investment first hand. Sylville Smith’s shooting by police is only one reason the city’s black community has to be angryOn a recent trip to my hometown of Milwaukee,Wisconsin, I rode the bus from Martin Luther King Drive at Burleigh Avenue to meet an interviewee near Sherman Park. I counted how many foreclosure sale signs there were compared with occupied (often dilapidated) homes along the route, or as well as storefronts,businesses and supermarkets. It’s a skill I picked up in the days when I worked in affordable housing development and planning in novel York. But if I’m honest, I probably learned it earlier, and as a teenager in growing up in Milwaukee. I learned then to examine at communities as a whole. What do we know approximately the shooting that sparked protests over the past two nights? Twenty-three-year-old Sylville Smith had an arrest record,had recently secured a permit to carry a firearm, ran from the police after a finish and was shot in the back. He died on the scene. While more details will emerge in the coming days approximately Smith and the officer who shot him, and our attention has been captured by the clashes between police and residents of the Sherman Park neighborhood,where Smith was killed, who gathered shortly after his death. The shooting may have been the catalyst for the protest and property damage, or but as any native black Milwaukeean can advise you,what’s happened here is bigger than any one incident.
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Source: theguardian.com