The scene on Tuesday night was something I had only seen in photos of
war-torn countries. Men and women stood with baseball bats, hand-guns,
semi-automatic rifles, and shotguns in front of their businesses and
homes.
By Evita Duffy 30, 2020
Kenosha, Wisconsin is situated in the southern part of the state, about
an hour and a half from Chicago, and has a population of approximately
100,000. Republican Rep. Bryan Steil, who represents Kenosha in
Wisconsin’s First Congressional district, told The Federalist the city
“is like a lot of cities in Wisconsin.” Steil says Kenosha is
“family-centered” and “hard-working.”
Kenosha became a very different place after police shot Jacob Blake
in the back seven times. Subsequent video footage showed that Blake was armed
with a knife and had been wrestling with officers, threw off a Taser,
and was disregarding police commands to stop after they were called to
address a domestic violence complaint.
Following
the shooting that left Blake paralyzed, rioting erupted in the city.
Although the first night was relatively peaceful, after the second
night, things were “spiraling out of control,” said Steil. Fire and
looting consumed uptown and downtown Kenosha, and Steil said the city
was no longer the “Kenosha we know.”
In uptown Kenosha, on Tuesday night, a woman, who said she has lived
in Kenosha for more than 40 years, broke down in tears, saying her city
felt like a “war zone” and she was “terrified.”............The overwhelming consensus among Kenoshans is that violent rioters did
not come from their city. “Kenosha locals did not do this to their town,
man!” said Jason, who came to Kenosha to check on his family.............To Read More.....
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