Today, we are walking the streets of Kenosha, WI after four nights of violent rioting following the shooting of Jacob Blake.
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Alvin was with his young daughter, Kaya, after visiting and “shedding tears” with the son of a shop owner whose business was destroyed. “All this destruction didn’t come from Kenosha,” he said, “People came in here and did this.”pic.twitter.com/STk5wWTWaS
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BLM organizers refused to say where they were from. They conceded they are aware Kenosha resident don’t want outsiders coming to riot but “This is the earth, it belongs to everybody.”pic.twitter.com/Bmob8FIowS
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This van, with the words “BLM”, “ACAB”, and “The Revolution” written on it, is one of several vehicles BLM organizers have parked near the Kenosha County Courthouse.pic.twitter.com/GWz91NRpMs
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A local plant shop owner says she wishes that there were more reinforcements after the initial rioting. Right now, she is just “taking one day at a time.” She has hope for the future, especially since more national guard have been deployed to Kenosha.pic.twitter.com/mKCmifowP3
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A man justifies violent rioting in uptown Kenosha, an area hit the hardest by arsonists. “A lot of people try to do peaceful demonstrations, and it seems like that peaceful demonstration is not workin,” he said, “So they trying to find some way to get the government‘s attention.”pic.twitter.com/jdthIbNGpI
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Jason, who came to Kenosha to check on his family, insisted that “Kenosha locals did not do this to they town, man!”pic.twitter.com/drKXvtC2SY
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This is the view from Dan’s lock and door shop in uptown Kenosha. Dan said he wishes law enforcement would have protected uptown as much as they did the county courthouse. He also said that the recent rioting has affected his opinion on the upcoming 2020 election.pic.twitter.com/ZPjwPQno9w
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Chuck has been spending every night on his roof guarding his uptown tire shop “with guns.” He believes the rioting will affect the 2020 election, and he is “for Trump all the way.” To the rioters he says: “Come to my shop and I’ll blow your heads off.”pic.twitter.com/5oFvKgj2c5
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A woman, who is part of the “Love is the Answer” community effort to paint over BLM graffiti, said, “A lot of people knew a lot of the business owners... I really don’t believe that anyone thats been from Kenosha would be willing to watch their city be torn up that way.”pic.twitter.com/QOTbYLkK6I
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