The Kenosha police chief has accused Protestants of being killed in riots in the city of Wisconsin – and said the massacre happened only because they met an exit penalty against the state of emergency.
“Everyone involved was after the exit traffic,” Chief Daniel Miskini told reporters when asked about the two killed and one injured presumably by a teenager of a vigilante militia group that protects businesses.
‘The point is that the exit traffic is too place to protect. If people were not involved in the conflict, the situation that developed would not have happened, ‘he said.
“The result is two people killed,” he said.
Law enforcement had thanked the heavily armed militia just minutes before the shooting broke out, while protesters said they were offenders who had to leave, viral video showed.
Miskinis promised to tackle the exit breakers, and the Kenosha News reported that officers – including some in plain clothes and unmarked cars – began “protesting” from the streets on Wednesday.
It was mostly a night of peaceful protests and a vigil, the paper said – with the heavily armed militia protecting buildings from arsonists, nowhere to be seen, the paper said.
Kenosha first broke out in riots Sunday night, hours after video emerged of an officer shooting local father Jacob Blake, 29, several times after he fought police and got into his SUV.
Late Tuesday, the third night of looting and destruction, came to a deadly end with the shooting that apparently resulted from a confrontation between Protestants and the militia.
Kyle Rittenhouse, 17 and from across state lines in Illinois, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder.
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