Protests in Milwaukee after the death of a man by a policeman.

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Milwaukee, USA.- protesters poor and predominantly black neighborhood in the US city of Milwaukee fired shots, threw bricks and torched a petrol station on Saturday evening after a police officer shot and killed an armed suspect, officials said authorities.

Police did not disclose the race of the suspect or the officer involved in the shooting, which took place on Saturday in Sherman Park. The violence comes as anger over the deaths of black men and women at the hands of police in the country continues unabated, Reuters reported.

A statement from the Milwaukee Police Department did not identify the suspect, but said he was 23, a history of arrests and carrying a stolen gun with ammunition when officers stopped their vehicle for a "suspicious activity" unspecified.

The statement did not say whether the suspect fired or pointed his gun at the officers. Others suspect who fled the vehicle was quickly put in custody.

The officer who shot the suspect has been assigned to administrative pending an investigation by the prosecutor's office tasks Milwaukee County, police said.

After the shooting, police said some residents of Sherman Park took to the streets and at night, some initially peaceful assembly turned violent.

The crowd fired shots, broke windows of at least two police cars and burned another, police said. One officer was wounded in the head with a brick.

A gas station, a car parts store and other businesses at least three more were torched, officials and local media said.

"It's a warning cry," said Councilman Milwaukee, Khalif Rainey. "Black people of Milwaukee are you tired. They are tired of living under this oppression," he said.

The crowd fired shots, broke windows of at least two police cars and burned another, police said. One officer was wounded in the head with a brick

Police violence against blacks has generated intermittent and sometimes violent protests in US cities from Ferguson or Baltimore to New York in the last two years.

Indignation has led to the rise of Black Lives Matter movement and ignited a national debate on race and policing in the United States.

In 2014, Hamilton Dontre an unarmed black man, died in a park shot by a police officer in Milwaukee, an act which caused large peaceful protests.

4 Justice Coalition, an organization created after the death of Hamilton, asked his followers to clean the streets of the city and hold prayer vigils.

"Vandalism is the language of the unheard," the group said on Twitter.