Racial Tensions Erupt In Milwaukee
August 16, 2016
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as posted by the channelA police shooting has caused racial tensions to boil over in Milwaukee. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“For Randy Jones, a community activist in the Milwaukee district of Sherman Park, the rioting that took place in his neighborhood over the weekend was inevitable.
By most any socioeconomic measure, Milwaukee's majority black neighborhoods lag far behind the white, a trend that has grown more acute since the deindustrialization of the 1980s.
So when police shot dead an armed black man after stopping his car for "suspicious activity," tempers ran out of control and parts of the city burned.
Gunfire erupted on Saturday and Sunday nights. Protesters hurled bottles and bricks, torched businesses, and damaged squad cars. At least eight officers have been injured and more than 30 people arrested.
"When you hold a person down so long, they are eventually going to fight back," said Jones, who recently ran for election to the city government but lost. "It was going to happen eventually, it was just a matter of when."Jones said when he was growing up in the 1970s and '80s, he had a job each summer. Now teenagers, especially young black men, have no income potential and too much idle time.”
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