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What happened in Kenosha?

Americano

The Spectator

Politics, News, News Commentary

4714 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with five felonies after allegedly shooting three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last Tuesday. Freddy Gray speaks to Shelby Talcott, a media reporter from the Daily Caller who saw the immediate aftermath of the incident, about what happened and how it might impact November's election. 

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I'm joined today by Shelby Tulkut, who is a media reporter at the Daily Caller.

0:40.6

And Shelby has been in Kenosha, Wisconsin, reporting on the riots.

0:46.9

And Shelby, I think I'm right in saying you've been through quite a week.

0:51.0

Can you tell us what happened to you when you were there? We arrived in Kenosha Monday evening

0:57.6

and there was a pretty big crowd. They were very angry. It sort of devolved into all of these members

1:05.8

of the crowd, fretting themselves out throughout downtown Kenosha and looting local businesses and in fact

1:13.3

burning several local businesses literally to the ground. We've been to a lot of protests and

1:18.3

rioting across the country and this was akin, I would say, to Minneapolis, which we didn't go

1:25.0

to, but as you've seen, you know, buildings engulfed in flames, people

1:30.6

running all over, just breaking things, looting. And for, you know, Wisconsin, it was crazy

1:37.9

because all of these places pretty much were local businesses. You say you haven't seen it

1:41.9

before. Have you seen arson before in the rights you've

1:44.9

covered? We've seen arson, but not like this. This was just, I mean, the entire building was

1:51.9

up in flames and the next day it was literally burned to the ground. So this was just like a different

1:58.0

level, I would say. And was it very much a black lives massive protest or was it

2:03.6

the usual mix of black lives massive protesters antifa and just people out to cause trouble I would say

2:11.5

it was less antifa looking members this time whether that's because it was this sort of city outside of any major

2:20.6

city. It's, you know, 45 minutes from Minneapolis, or from, sorry, from Milwaukee and a little

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