Curfew in place after Milwaukee unrest

A nighttime curfew for teenagers appeared to be maintaining calm in the US city of Milwaukee Tuesday, following two nights of violence over the fatal police shooting of a black man.
“It appears at this hour that a lot of parents and guardians have taken very, very seriously the curfew that has gone into effect tonight,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel quoted Mayor Tom Barrett as saying.
National Guard troops were on standby as a precaution. Six people were arrested earlier in the evening and a police station was temporarily closed after shots were fired nearby, the paper reported.
There was “no major arson or property damage,” police chief Ed Flynn said in an update just before midnight, NBC News reported.
Police in the now relatively calm Midwestern city faced off with protesters in the city’s Sherman Park neighborhood on Saturday and again on Sunday after the death of 23-year-old Sylville Smith, who officials say was armed.
The death angered residents, as it echoes a series of deadly police incidents involving mainly African American suspects.
In the weekend clashes, protesters set cars and businesses on fire. They targeted police with gunshots, rocks and bottles.
Fourteen people were arrested Sunday and three police cars were damaged, according to officials.
“There were groups of young people in particular, who were traveling in the streets,” Barrett told a news conference Monday.
“Those people, in my mind, were deliberately trying to damage a great neighborhood, in a great city.”
The curfew for minors under the age of 18 began at 10 p.m.

Source: Arab News