MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says the city will have a strong police presence in the part of the city where there was rioted following the fatal shooting of a black man last August. Two nights of violence broke out in a north side neighborhood after then-Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith. Heaggan-Brown, who is also black, was acquitted Wednesday of first-degree reckless homicide in the case. Barrett says that people have a right to gather. But the mayor says his “strong request” is that it be peaceful. He says nothing good can come out of violent protest. Smith was fleeing and had a gun. But a prosecutor argued he had thrown it away and was defenseless when Heaggan-Brown shot him a second time. Heaggan-Brown was fired two months later when he was charged in an unrelated sexual assault case.
