In the simmering heat of a Milwaukee afternoon on August 13, 2016, a 23-year-old Black or African American man named Sylville Smith was shot and killed by a police officer, an event that would ignite days of unrest and cast a harsh spotlight on the city's deep-seated tensions. The moments leading to the fatal encounter began with a traffic stop in the Sherman Park neighborhood. Smith was a passenger in the vehicle that was pulled over, and he fled from the car on foot.
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