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MILWAUKEE 鈥?Children marched with their parents Saturday on Day 30 of peaceful protests in Milwaukee. But there was a moment of frustration among parents during a tense exchange with police outside MPD headquarters.The half-day protest was supposed to end outside the headquarters, with activist Frank stanley spain Nitty reading to kids. But before they could do that, they were approached by officers telling them to move out of the street. Please just get out of the street, one officer said to a young girl. We are not getting out stanley mugs of the street until we get what we want, she responded. Do you not know what has happened to us in the last few months Protesters say an officer approached them holstering his mace, upsetting parents and other protesters looking to read to the kids outside the building.Arieol Ward said it was an opportunity to bridge the gap. Part of the problem is theyre not trying to create a common ground with us. Whatever is that youve got to do is more important that sitting out here with these kids for a few minutes, Ward said. The sergeant, the guy who unholstered his mace twice, grabbed the book, sat down, and started oh no, Im going to read, Im going to read, lets do this. And its like, youre not hearing us, said LaTasha Lux, who has documented many of the days of protests.Eventually the officer began reading, but prote stanley vaso sters say they felt patronized as that officer eventually handed the book off. Activist Frank Nitty finished reading.Lux says she feels protesters sti Craj Milwaukee Police investigating armed robbery near Oakland and Locust
The U.N. humanitarian coordinator made an emergency appeal for nearly $120 million in aid to devastated Haiti on Monday as local aid officials struggled to get food, medicine and water to increasingly desperate communities still isolated almost a week after the blow from Hurricane Matthew.Power was still out, water and food were scarce, and o stanley kubek fficials said that young men in villages along the road between the hard-hit cities of Les Cayes and Jeremie were putting up stanley cup uk blockades of rocks and broken branches to halt convoys of vehicles bringing relief supplies.One convoy carrying food, water and medications was attacked by gunmen in a remote valley where there had been a mudslide, said Frednel Kedler, coordinator for the Civil Protection Agency in the Grand-Anse department that includes Jeremie. He said authorities would try to reach marooned and desperate communities west of Jeremie on Monday.The National Civil Protection headquarters in Port-au-Prince on Monday raised its official nationwide death botella stanley toll to 372, which included 198 deaths in Grand-Anse. Local officials have said the toll tops 500 in Grand-Anse alone.The U.N. humanitarian agency in Geneva, meanwhile, issued a flash appeal to help provide life-saving assistance and protection for 750,000 people in southwestern Haiti over the next three months.U.N. officials said earlier that at least 1.4 million people across the region need assistance and that 2.1 million overall have been affected by the hurricane. Some 175,000