Multiple people were injured by gunfire in Milwaukee overnight Tuesday amid celebrations for the city’s new NBA championship.
Thousands of people turned out to party following the Milwaukee Bucks’ Game 6 victory in the NBA Finals over the Phoenix Suns. It’s the team’s first title in a half-century.
Police said three people were injured in separate shootings after midnight.
A 19-year-old woman, a 32-year-old man and a 22-year-old man were shot, but none received life-threatening injuries, police told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Police took at least one suspect into custody. What led to the shootings wasn’t immediately clear.
About 65,000 fans attended Tuesday night’s game outside the Fiserv Forum, in addition to nearly 20,000 inside. Officials said two Milwaukee police officers were injured amid the bedlam, according to WISN-TV.
Police said some fans jumped into the Milwaukee River after the game.
Bucks star center Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 50 points in the win Tuesday night and was named Finals MVP. Milwaukee is just the fifth team in NBA history to win the championship after losing the first two games of the series.
Before Tuesday, the team’s last NBA title came in 1971.
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With Biden and the Democrats, it’s usually a situation of just “Pass the Buck”, but when hunting season opens for an NBA title in a Democrat run city it soon becomes just “Shoot the Buck”. The difference between Conservative run city title winners and Liberal run cities is like the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts. After the Conservative city win people eat $2 dollar beer nuts and shoot $5 dollar beers, but after Democrat city wins, the people shoot each other for free, and eat deer nuts which are under a buck. These days in MIlwaukee, bullets that make Milwaukee infamous are more popular than the beer that made Milwaukee famous.
Shooting to the tune of “It’s A Celebration.” No reason allowed.
Must have been all those white supremacists celebrating the NBA title..
Gosh I’m so happy I think I’ll just shoot somebody – Yay Bucks…We’re Number One…Yay!!
Will there be pics of the shooters? Ha!
A certain segment of the population is devolving. Leave these Dem cities if you value you and your families lives.
JUST leave any liberal ideologies behind when you leave.
Meanwhile, some communist who founded the ridiculous “black lives matter(?)” movement is enjoying the fruits of capitalism as she basks in her multi-million dollar mansion in Beverly Hills, laughing at the “bruthas” who continue to kill each other at a rate thousands of times greater than any black criminal killed by law enforcement.
Not just that, but did you hear about that CUBA LIBRA sign that activists painted in DC that mayor BUTT_HEAD spent a few thousand dollars of CITY FUNDS to erase.. THE SAME mayor butthead who spent TENDS OF THOUSANDS of tax payer dollars to paint a MASSIVE BLACK LIVES MATTER slogan on the road!??
Seems we need to band basketball because it causes ” gun violence”
LETS just ban all gangs! YEA that will work.