Donald Trump Justifies The Milwaukee Police Shooting Of Black Man, Call Protesters To Quell The Rage

US Presidential hopeful and Business Mogul, Donald Trump made public that the initial evidence pointed to the police shooting of a black man in Milwaukee being justified as he visited the city.

Trump has been vocal in his support of law enforcement during a spate of protests across the country over high-profile police shootings. Sequel to his visit to the Wisconsin city, speaking with Fox News: "It's law and order. We have to obey the laws or we don't have a country.

"We have a case where good people are out there trying to get people to sort of calm down and they're not calming down and we have our police who are doing a phenomenal job." He said.

Aggressive protests had erupted in Milwaukee on Saturday night after the death earlier in the day of Sylville Smith, 23.

Smith who was stopped for acting suspiciously and then fled, was shot by police because he was carrying an illegal handgun and refused orders to drop it.


"But the gun was pointed at his (a police officer's) head supposedly ready to be fired. Who can have a problem with that? That's what the narrative is.

"Maybe it's not true. If it is true, people shouldn't be rioting." Trump added.

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump held a roundtable discussion with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and Inspector Edward Bailey.

Sheriff Clarke, who is black and was a speaker at the last month Republican National Convention, has been candid and direct in his assessment of the turmoil, writing in an opinion poll for The Hill, he stated that "it was a collapse of the social order where tribal behavior leads to reacting to circumstances instead of waiting for facts to emerge.''