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Jacob Blake is an African-American man who was shot seven times during an arrest by police officer Rusten Sheskey [14] [15] in Kenosha on August 23, 2020. Blake was tasered, [16] then shot after he opened the door to an SUV he had been using and reached into the vehicle. [17]
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, although Rittenhouse and those he shot ...
The 1967 Milwaukee riot was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967". In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, African American residents, outraged by the slow pace in ending housing discrimination and police brutality, began to riot on the evening of July 30, 1967. The inciting incident was a fight ...
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The Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department has only five full-time officers and a budget of about $3.5 million. To manage, the department brings in civilian help and nearby departments assist ...
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.
More than two dozen people were hurt − three who suffered critical injuries − after a wagon rolled over Wednesday during a school field trip at a Wisconsin apple orchard, officials said.
The Milwaukee Fourteen were fourteen peace activists who burned Selective Service records to protest the Vietnam War.On 24 September 1968, they entered Milwaukee's Brumder Building, site of nine Wisconsin draft boards, gathered up about 10,000 files, carried them to an open public space, and set them on fire with homemade napalm.