Seven Days of Unrest in Kenosha
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🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
One week ago, a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times, paralyzing him from the waist down. In the immediate aftermath, citizens of Kenosha took to the streets in protest. Those protests later turned into more tragedy when 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse shot three protestors, killing two. How is the city of Kenosha handling the turmoil?
Guest: Gina Barton, investigative reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and host of the Unsolved podcast
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| 0:00.0 | I got a call from my editor at 6 o'clock on Monday morning saying, have you seen this video? |
| 0:12.5 | Gina Barton is a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. |
| 0:16.6 | 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. |
| 0:28.1 | Gina 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. |
| 0:39.6 | The response was almost immediate. People in Kenosha started taking to the streets. |
| 0:44.7 | Say your name. Say your name. Say your name. |
| 0:47.8 | What I've been finding is that during the day, |
| 0:54.4 | things have been pretty calm. |
| 0:57.0 | Families are out there. |
| 0:59.1 | Younger people are out there. |
| 1:01.3 | All different races, ages. |
| 1:03.5 | No justice. |
| 1:05.5 | No justice. |
| 1:06.8 | No peace. |
| 1:08.1 | No justice. |
| 1:09.0 | No peace. But then when the sun goes down, you start getting different groups of people who seem to be interested in causing conflict and chaos. |
| 1:21.6 | So the courthouse is literally on fire right now. |
| 1:24.6 | This is the Kenosha County Courthouse. |
| 1:26.6 | This conflict and chaos has been heightened |
| 1:30.0 | by so-called militia members who say they're trying to protect life and property in Kenosha. In videos, |
| 1:37.0 | 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. |
| 1:51.5 | 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. |
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