At least four of the suspects were black, according to prison records. The fifth suspect was a minor, the department sheriff said in a statement.
“I’m at the point where I think society needs to get to a threshold where there are some people who are not worth saving,” Beth said at the news conference a day after the incident, according to CNN affiliate WTMJ. “We need to build warehouses to put these people in there and shut them off for the rest of their lives.”
“We put them away for the rest of their lives so the rest of us can be better,” Beth said.
He acknowledged several times during the news conference that he was not politically correct.
The suspects were charged with retail theft and obstruction charges, the sheriff’s department said.
CNN has reached out to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department for comment.
Beth said it prevented him from ending the chase at high speed when the suspect’s car collided with another car. A 16-year-old who “had just gotten his driver’s license” and his mother were in the other car, the sheriff said.
“This 16-year-old reminded me of my own daughter who just got her driver’s license less than a month ago,” Beth wrote in his apology.
At the time, the sheriff said he had met with two members of the Kenosha NAACP and that he planned to work with state lawmakers “to strengthen punishments for those who break the law and the citizens of Kenosha in the put the future in jeopardy. “
The sheriff is among a group of law enforcement officials leading the police response to protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Blake was shot several times by police earlier this week.
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