Concerns were growing on Sunday that Donald Trump’s planned visit this week after Jacob Blake’s police shooting in the city last Sunday could lead to a tense, but peaceful situation that has been going on in Kenosha for the past four days and nights.
Blake, a 29-year-old black father, was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer in the small town of Wisconsin, and his family says he is now paralyzed below the waist.
Unrest erupted the following night and then on Tuesday night large peaceful streets were engulfed in chaos when white armed protesters appeared in the streets and, despite being out after the curfew, were applauded by police and confronted by protesters after being given water and started shooting. Had fallen.
A white teenager, Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was seen in the video fleeing after a man was shot, while others stood up to help the victim, although he later died.
He was then seen chasing Rittenhouse, and the men tried to stop him, fired again, then walked along police lines around his neck and hands without arresting him.
The next day he entered Antioch, Illinois and charged with the alleged shooting death of two white men, and other charges related to the assault rifle he fired and another shooting where a man’s hand was serious. Wounded.
Marches and rallies in Kenosha have been quiet since Tuesday night.
On Saturday, Blake’s family spoke at an impressive, peaceful rally in Kenosha. Blake’s father, Jacob Sinner, told the crowd, “We won’t stop.” “We are still suffering because there are two justice systems. It’s one for the white boy [Rittenhouse] That killed two people walking down the street and threw another man’s hand. Then there is one for my son. ”
He was also critical of the police. “What gave them the right to think my son was an animal?” He said.
The U.S. president announced plans to visit Kenosha on Tuesday.
Karen Bass, a California Democratic congresswoman, said Sunday that the violence that erupted in Kenosha after the police shooting was “absolutely horrific” was also captured on video.
She said of Rittenhouse: “The idea that we would see a young man with a rifle walking towards the police and they do nothing and he killed two people, and the very next day the head of law enforcement was found guilty. [the deaths] વિરોધ 90% protest on people being out after curfew [in Kenosha] “It’s been peaceful,” he said.
The federal government has opened a civil rights inquiry into the shooting, and after nearly five days of silence, Trump said Friday that the image of Blake being shot by police was “not a good sight.”
But Baso said of Trump’s plans for the Kenosha trip: “I think this visit has one purpose and one purpose and to provoke things.”
Despite a huge rally in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday night, disrespecting Trump supporters and Trump supporters who fired paintballs and pepper spray at those protesters, Trump has positioned himself better in terms of a focused election campaign to break the unrest. , Buy retweeting video of the event.
And that Tweeted Sunday morning simply “law and order”.
In fact, Bass told CNN that he thinks “he will do everything he can to disrupt law and order” in order to try to win re-election by sowing division and fear.
The president criticized the wave of protests against police brutality and systemic racism that has plagued the U.S. since the police assassination of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the United States.
Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have spoken at length with Jacob Blake’s family and strongly condemned the police shooting.
Miles Taylor, then Secretary of Homeland Security, and now adviser to the anti-Trump group, the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (Repair), said Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff, could “cool the rhetoric.” ”. , He was worried.
“My problem is that Donald Trump goes to these places to politicize things … even if you go to give a uniform message, I’m skeptical,” he said.
It is not clear if Trump plans to meet with Blake or his family.
Kenosha is the latest city in the US to hold protests against racism and excessive use of force by the police. In addition to police reform, much of the white Midwest community needs to address the fundamental disadvantages that black people face in Kenosha, according to Verona King, former president of the local national organization of the chapter on Colored People (NAACP).
While about 13% of whites in Kenosha live in poverty, more than a third of black residents are poor. Kingo said Kenosha also lacks racial equality within housing, health care, education and the justice system.
“We want to eradicate the ongoing systemic racism prevalent in all these areas,” he said.
While most of the protests in Kenosha have been peaceful, there has been little damage to property and businesses in the city.
“We’re not the last community to have this happen,” said Vicky Quasney, a resident, as she watched dozens of volcanic cars in a parking lot near her home. “I hope we can heal. We have done a lot of cleaning to do. “
Chanesy Brown, a 31-year-old teacher, handed over water and snacks to her two-month-old G. Dawson during a walk on Saturday.
“This morning … everything caught me and I sat on my bed and cried. Because this is not the Kenosha we know, ”he said. “It’s surreal, overwhelming and painful, but then I come out and see this and it’s a reminder that … we have our faith and hope.”
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