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Protests continued peacefully with chants and sidewalk art in a park near the courthouse, followed by a march. Riot police and National Guard troops did not have a visible presence. [55] The Kenosha County Board sent Evers a second letter requesting the deployment of 1,500 more national guardsmen. "Our county is under attack", the board wrote.
Later, the demonstration turned into a riot with storefronts being vandalized, and conflict with law enforcement met with tear gas. [157] Protests were also held in at least nine other communities in Wisconsin, including Appleton, Eau Claire, Franklin, Green Bay, Kenosha, La Crosse, Marinette, McFarland, Milwaukee, and Wausau.
On August 25, 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, shot and killed two men and wounded another man in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The shootings occurred during the protests, riots, and civil unrest that followed the shooting of Jacob Blake. Race was a major theme in U.S. media commentary of the event, although Rittenhouse and ...
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Police oversees public safety for the state fairgrounds year-round. The department has five full-time staff, in addition to 43 part-time officers.
This is a list of protests held in Wisconsin related to the 2020 murder of George Floyd in neighboring Minnesota. Additional protests occurred in late August in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the aftermath of the shooting of Jacob Blake. Protests also occurred in 2020 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin during the aftermath of the shooting of Alvin Cole.
Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean October 18, 2024 at 7:54 AM Nashville police arrested a man out in Downtown Nashville on his 25th birthday after a Wisconsin man was hit and killed waiting for ...
Notable protests and vigils were held in Atlanta, Bridgeport, Minneapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, and Tucson from January 20–22, 2023. [193] Protests in Atlanta on January 21, 2023, briefly turned violent as some demonstrators threw objects, set police car on fire, and smashed windows of bank buildings with hammers. [ 194 ]
A Wisconsin man fled to Ireland and sought asylum to avoid a prison sentence for joining a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago, federal authorities allege in a court filing Tuesday.