Just watch this:
this is the brother of the man that was killed in #milwaukee by the police last night pic.twitter.com/TNBjRQbQvb
â Sarah Nyberg (@srhbutts) August 14, 2016
It's worth considering how journalists would cover this story if it happened somewhere else. Might go something like this:Milwaukee is one of the United Statesâ most segregated cities, where black men are incarcerated or unemployed at some of the highest rates in the country, and where the difference in poverty between black and white residents is about one and a half times the national average. There are barren lots and worn-down homes all over the predominantly black north side, while mostly white crowds traffic through the restaurants and boutiques downtown, or inhabit the glossy lakefront high rises.
Add to that the disrespect that many black people say the police show them, and many of Milwaukeeâs African-American residents are unsurprised by the volatile response after a police officer fatally shot a black man on Saturdayâeven though, as it turns out, the officer also was black.
MILWAUKEE, USAâRiots erupted in the highly segregated American city of Milwuakee over the weekend after police gunned another member of the African-American minority groupâthe 166th such killing this yearâas he fled from a traffic stop. The state's governor has deployed the military in an effort to quell the unrest. Human rights groups say American police agencies wantonly use lethal force and engage in systematic racial discrimination.