Anti-police protests erupted Sunday night in Kenosha, Wisconsin, just hours after a police officer was filmed shooting a black man in the back as he tried to enter his car.
Crowds of protesters gathered at the shooting scene – where 29-year-old Jacob Blake was beaten several times in the back and seriously injured – before making his way to the police station, according to local reports.
Images posted on social media show protesters banging on the station house window, and “F – k the police are screaming.”
Police later deploy tear gas, TMJ4-TV reporter Lauren Linder tweets.
In another clip posted on Twitter, Protestants throw what appear to be Molotov cocktails and bricks at policemen standing by a patrol car.
One officer appears to have been hit by a flying object, and struck him on the ground.
Elsewhere in the city, dump trucks and garbage trucks placed at intersections were set on fire.
Blake was shot dead at about 5:10 p.m. local time after police responded to the scene for a domestic incident.
The footage circulating on the shooting of social media shows two police officers with guns drawn behind Blake as he walks to a gray van and opens the driver’s side door to enter.
One of the officers then grabs him by the back of his tank top and appears to shoot him at close range. A fusillade can be heard, followed by a car horn, and bystanders screaming.
A family member told Milwaukee WTMJ-TV that Blake’s children were sitting in the car when police shot their father.
At least half a dozen witnesses told the Kenosha News that the man was trying to break up a fight between two women. They said cops teased him and that they heard seven gunshots ring.
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