Even before last night’s events, largely nonviolent protests opposed to Jacob Blake’s shooting had deteriorated outside the daily clashes between the bailiffs and The National Guard troops, writes Adam Mahoney of the Guardian.
Relations between Kenosha’s communities and the police had long been strained.
“Cops and others in court and prisons say they care about Kenosha, but they don’t care if it’s a great position for everyone,” said Kenosha resident Glenn Summers.
He added: “I’m afraid of passing out because the last time I was arrested, several cops pointed an attack rifle at me just because someone called me. He was unarmed.
While blacks and Latinos make up 25% of the city’s womb, they account for 40% of the city living in poverty.
Kenosha’s man, TW Gordon, said Blake’s shooting on Sunday “is far from a remote incident.”
“We’ve noticed too many mistakes. The apology dried up. Now it’s transparent that this is just racism,” he told the Guardian.
Gordon said he believed that advances and infrastructure in recent decades have favored rural communities that are predominantly white at the expense of more urban communities of color.
And public investment is going in that direction, he said.
“The police take too much cash to make too many mistakes. We want to invest that money in our network so that our young black people can get the resources they want to succeed, just like the whites here,” Gordon said.
Read Adam’s full article here:
Gun rights advocates pointed to last night’s shooting as evidence that the United States wants stricter gun laws.
The Giffords crusade, formed through former Congressman Gabthrough Giffords after being shot dead on a crusade in 2011, referred to Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth, saying that “gunmen should not be on the streets with guns.”
Fred Guttenberg, a gun activist whose daughter Jaime Guttenberg was killed in the mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, also condemned the shootings.
Jamaal Bowman, a progressive who overthrew a longtime Democratic congressman in the New York primary, asked the party’s presidential price ticket to do more in his reaction to the occasions at Kenosha.
Bowman supported through Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and defeated Elliot Engel, who served in Congress for more than 30 years, in July.
Joe Biden has condemned the shooting of Jacob Blake through the police, but has not yet commented on last night’s shootings.
The FBI is working with Kenosha police to investigate last night’s shootings, Kenosha News reported, while police showed that a shooting victim had been treated at the same hospital where Jacob Blake is recovering.
Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth told local media that police were “working together” with the Federal Bureau of Investigation while officials worked to track down the user or users who shot 3 other people Tuesday night.
According to Kenosha News, Beth said that a “tactical law enforcement team from an outdoor agency” had arrested a user who had been shot.
The other is believed to have entered Froedtert Kenosha Hospital. Jacob Blake was taken to the same hospital after being shot dead by police on Sunday.
Blake is recovering from several gunshot wounds, and his lawyers said he underwent an operation Tuesday, according to CBS 58.
“A bullet is said to have broken Blake’s spine, which has several holes in his abdomen and wounds in the rest of his body,” CBS reported.
Adam Gabbatt succeeds Martin Belam.
Here are some other photographs that came from Kenosha overnight.
Here, by the way, is the most recent article written through the Associated Press that describes video clips of occasions posted on social media:
A cell phone video of at least two of the shootings that was posted online shows what appears to be a white man with a semi-automatic rifle running in the middle of a street as the crowd and police approach him. You can hear someone in the crowd asking “What did you do?” and another user replies that the guy shot someone.
The guy with the gun stumbles and falls, and when he gets up in the crowd, he shoots 3 or 4 shots from the seated position, hitting at least two other people, one who falls and stumbles upon the frantic cries of “Medical ! Doctor! “
As the crowd disperses, the gunguy gets up and continues walking down the street as police cars arrive. The guy raises his hands and walks towards the team’s cars, in the crowd screaming at the police that the guy had just shot Array, but several of the cars pass him in the direction of the other people who were shot.
As far as we know, the shooter is still on the loose. Police said they were looking for a guy with a “long gun” and Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth told reporters that the government had not arrested anyone during the shooting, but that investigators had reviewed the video of what happened and that he was safe. they would soon arrest a guy.
We’re going to get a political reaction to the occasions in Kenosha overnight. CNN’s Ana Cabrera reports that the Kenosha County Council requested the dispatch of 1,500 national guard members.
Ron Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin, also posted articles on Twitter last night in the last few minutes.
That’s what we know so far with certainty about last night’s shootings in Kenosha, the racial justice protests that led to the police shooting of Jacob Blake this weekend:
Here’s our full report: Two dead in Kenosha on the third night of riots after the shooting of Jacob Blake
Recently made the impression at the RNC, Reuters reports that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is meddling in UK-China relations.
Pompeo said the US is “dismayed” by the movements reported through the British bank HSBC towards certain accounts connected to Hong Kong, adding those connected to the pro-democracy publisher Next Media, and said China “harasses” the UK.
Pompeo cited reports that Hong Kong-based Next Media executives may simply not have their HSBC bank accounts and said the bank “keeps the accounts of others who have been sanctioned for denying freedom to the Hong Kongese, while ending the accounts of those seeking freedom.”
“Free nations will have to ensure that the interests of companies are not subordinated through the PCCh (Chinese Communist Party) to help their political repression,” Pompeo said in a statement. “We are in a position to help the UK government and its companies resist the bullying of the PCCh and protect freedom.”
Here are some of what we can expect from the rest of the news of the day. At the RNC, Vice President Mike Pence, second lady Karen Pence, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Senators Marsha Blackburn and Joni Ernst and Kellyanne Conway are among the guest speakers. Well, at least we thought, after becoming on his way to the White House, that Conway keeps talking.
Donald Trump will make an appearance in RNC’s gain. Before that starts, you receive your intelligence report at 12:15 p.m. and an assembly at 3 p.m. billed as “with fitness professionals at Covid-19”
At noon, House of Commons president Nancy Pelosi, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and Biden National Press Secretary TJ Ducklo held a video press conference to discuss, they say, the Republican conference and the failure of Trump’s reaction to the coronavirus.
Also with Democrats, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris attends a “Sister-to-Sister: Mobilization in Action” roundtable in Michigan to launch a national black women’s voter turnout program.
And an out-of-date warning, it was announced that U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will testify next week before the House Coronavirus Committee. That’s what’s going to have to be done on Tuesday.