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reUS President Donald Trump visited the city of Kenosha as part of a controversial action, which was rocked by protests, some of them violent, after police shot a black man. Accompanied by a massive security presence, Trump pictured destruction as a result of riots in the Wisconsin state city on Tuesday. So he had burned down the stores shown and talked to the owners.
Anti-racist protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement and Trump supporters took to the streets of the city. The road from the airport to the city center was packed with supporters of the president and counter-protesters. An opponent of Trump held up a sign that read “Liar.”
The Wisconsin governor and Kenosha mayor had advised Trump against visiting because they feared rising tension. The self-proclaimed “president of law and order” clung to the trip just under two months before the presidential election.
Kenosha was hit by riots “directed against the police and against Americans,” Trump said. “It was not a peaceful protest, it was internal terrorism.” Trump also pledged $ 1 million to support the local police force and $ 4 million to rebuild businesses in Kenosha.
Trump accused the Democrats of failure during his visit. He said he had offered federal officials to those responsible in the city and state of Wisconsin to control the protests. “They just didn’t want us to go and then the destruction was done,” the president said.
No reunion with Blake’s family was planned
Trump promised owners of a burned-down business quick help Tuesday. Speaking of the police at the scene, the president said they did a “fantastic job.”
Trump also visited the security forces command center at a school in Kenosha. There, the 74-year-old president said some see law and order as “two terrible words.” But they are “beautiful”. A meeting was not scheduled between Trump and the family of African American Jacob Blake, who was seriously injured by police shooting in Kenosha.
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One of the man’s uncles, Justin Blake, said: “We don’t need more pain and division from a president who wants to move his campaign forward at the expense of our city.” Trump’s car convoy passed under heavy police protection between supporters and opponents who kept their distance.
A white police officer seriously wounded 29-year-old Blake seven times in the back in front of his three young children on August 23. The recent case of police violence against blacks sparked outrage and protests, some of which degenerated into violence.
Last week, two people were shot on the sidelines of the protests and a 17-year-old white man was arrested as a suspect. The teenager, armed with an assault rifle, had apparently joined a self-proclaimed vigilante group that claims to protect businesses from rioters.
Kenosha exemplifies the tensions in the country that shaped Trump’s reign. Critics accuse Trump of selectively fueling tension in order to run for office as a guarantor of law and order.
Trump accuses Democrats opposed to presidential candidate Joe Biden of failing to crack down on unrest in the cities they rule. He warns that if Biden wins the November 3 election, the United States is in danger of sinking into chaos and anarchy.
Biden strongly rejected it on Monday, blaming Trump for the violence in the country: “He cannot stop the violence because he has been provoking it for years,” the former vice president said. “Does anyone think there will be less violence in the United States if Donald Trump is re-elected?”
More recently, violent clashes between anti-racism protesters and Trump supporters in the city of Portland in the west coast state of Oregon caused a stir. A member of a right-wing group was shot dead on the sidelines of the protests over the weekend.
