I got a call from my editor at six o'clock on Monday morning saying, have you seen this

video?

Gina Barton is a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

And by then, less than 12 hours after the shooting, the video of a police officer shooting

Jacob Blake was already all over social media.

The media has been covering the protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin since the footage came

out of an officer shooting Jacob Blake in the back seven times while his children were

in the car.

The response was almost immediate.

People in Kenosha started taking to the streets.

What I've been finding is that during the day, things have been pretty calm.

Things are out there, younger people are out there, all different races, ages.

But then when the sun goes down, you start getting different groups of people who seem

to be interested in causing conflict in chaos.

This conflict in chaos has been heightened by so-called militia members who say they're

trying to protect life and property in Kenosha.

In videos, you can see them walking around the city armed.

I think the more guns that are in a volatile situation, the more likely it is that someone's

going to be seriously hurt.

And that is what we saw on Tuesday when a 17-year-old who considered himself some sort of militia

member ended up shooting three people, two of them fatally.

Gina Barton says covering the events of the last week in southeastern Wisconsin has

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