St. Louis (CNN)It's not just about police killing black men. It's deeper than that. Khalif Rainey stares intensely across the police tape marking the burnt out parts of the neighborhood he loves and represents. Rainey is an Alderman for the 7th district in Milwaukee, which includes the Sherman Park neighborhood. It became the scene of protests and then violent clashes after police shot and killed Sylville Smith who is black and police say was armed. "I see devastation," Rainey says. "I see something I hope we never see again." Rainey laments what he sees, but also understands how it happened. He says the destructive reaction by some in the predominantly black neighborhood was not about the...
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