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Kenosha Shooting: Wisconsin Police and Protesters Clash After Black Man Jacob Blake Shot
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0:52Now PlayingAfter the police shooting of Black man Jacob Blake turned Kenosha into the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest, Wisconsin police deployed tear gas in an attempt to disperse protesters who converged on the county courthouse during a second night of clashes.
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers activated 125 members of the National Guard to assist local law enforcement. Exit ramps off Interstate 94 from the Illinois state line into Kenosha County were closed Monday night, blocked off by police vehicles and trucks in some places.
Protesters chanted, “No justice, no peace” minutes before the 8 p.m. curfew. Some threw water bottles and other objects and confronted members of law enforcement who wore protective gear and stood shoulder-to-shoulder in front of the courthouse entrance.
Police fired the tear gas about 30 minutes after the curfew took effect, but not all the protesters left.
The latest confrontation came after protesters set cars on fire, smashed windows and clashed with officers in riot gear Sunday night over the wounding of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who was hospitalized in serious condition. In a widely seen cellphone video made by an onlooker, Blake was shot, apparently in the back, as he leaned into his SUV while his three children sat in the vehicle.
Police in the former auto manufacturing center of 100,000 people midway between Milwaukee and Chicago said they were responding to a call about a domestic dispute. They did not say whether Blake was armed or why police opened fire, they released no details on the domestic dispute, and they did not immediately disclose the race of the three officers at the scene.
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