South Florida Sun-Sentinel Palm Beach (Sunday)

Wisconsin arrests:

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Police arrested 28 people during a third straight night of protests over the lack of charges against a suburban Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a Black teen, authoritie­s said Saturday.

About 100 people gathered outside City Hall on Friday past Wauwatosa’s 7 p.m. curfew and refused multiple orders to disperse, according to police.

Police said two of the arrests were for felonies, one was for a misdemeano­r and 25 were for municipal citations. Police said some of the people arrested were blocking traffic, others had tried to start fires, and one person had materials to start a fire, including lighter fluid. Police said one person in the group posted a picture of himself with a handgun — though it was not clear if he was among those arrested.

Two people arrested were evaluated for minor injuries, police said.

Protesters have gathered every day since prosecutor­s announced Wednesday that they would not charge Officer Joseph Mensah in 17year-old Alvin Cole’s death. Mensah, who is Black, shot Cole after a foot chase outside a Wauwatosa mall in February.

The protests in Wauwatosa are just the latest in a series of demonstrat­ions against police racism and brutality that have erupted across the country since George Floyd’s death. Floyd, who was Black, died in May after a white police officer in Minneapoli­s pressed his knee into his neck as Floyd gasped that he couldn’t breathe.

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