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Milwaukee Cop Cars Smashed, Torched After Police Kill Suspect

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Aug 14 2016, 1:05 am ET

Milwaukee Crowd Turns Violent After Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man

by Phil Helsel

Angry crowds smashed a Milwaukee police car, set fire to another, and injured a police officer with a thrown brick Saturday night following the fatal police shooting of an armed man earlier in the day, police said.
A large crowd turned out after Milwaukee police shot and killed what they said was an armed suspect at 3:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) on Milwaukee's north side, according to police and NBC station WTMJ.
Police said an officer was injured after being struck in the head by a brick thrown through the window of a squad car.
Police said shortly after 10 p.m. that a gas station was set on fire and gunshots were preventing the fire department from moving in.

In the deadly police shooting, police said officers stopped a vehicle and two people got out and fled on foot, and during a foot pursuit one officer shot and killed a 23-year-old man who was armed with a handgun.

A car burns as a crowd of more than 100 people gathers following the fatal shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. Calvin Mattheis / Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP

Milwaukee Police Assistant Chief Bill Jessup told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel newspaper it wasn't clear if the gun was pointed at the officer.
"Those additional facts will come out in the coming days," Jessup said. He told the paper, "That officer had to make a split-second decision when the person confronted him with a handgun."
Police reported a crowd smashed windows of an unoccupied squad car at an intersection about a block from the police shooting, and another squad car was set on fire.
Aerial video shot by WTMJ showed what appeared to be a building at a gas station burning to the ground. A second fire broke out at an O'Reilly Auto Parts store less than a little less than mile away from the shooting, WTMJ reported.
A woman who said she was a relative of the person killed by police told the crowd earlier: "We don't want anyone else to go to jail or get hurt," according to the Journal-Sentinel.

A police officer hides behind a car as a crowd of more than 100 people gathers following the fatal shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. AP

WTMJ said it pulled its reporters from the scene due to threats of physical violence from some in the crowd. The Journal-Sentinel reported that one of its journalists was thrown to the ground and punched by some in the crowd.
The Milwaukee police officer struck in the head by the thrown brick was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said on Twitter. Police said rocks were thrown at officers, and some arrests were made as police tried to disperse the crowd.
The man who was killed by police was not identified. He shot in a yard and died at the scene, police said in a statement.
The name of the officer who shot the man earlier was not immediately released. He is a 24-year-old man who has been with the police department for six years and has been an officer for three years, police said in a statement. He was placed on administrative duty as is standard practice, the department said, and the shooting is under investigation.

Police said the gun recovered from that shooting was a semiautomatic handgun reported stolen in a burglary in Waukesha in M