Extremists come to Kenosha to start trouble. One shot two men to death. |
We have a destructive hurricane barreling into Texas and Louisiana.
We have wildfires in California that have destroyed numerous homes and forests.
We have the coronavirus infecting over 6 million Americans and over 200,000 lives lost.
We have unemployment at record highs with over 35 million Americans out of the labor fore.
We have a coin shortage in the country.
And civil unrest in many of America's forgotten urban communities.
According to the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative echo chamber, it's the fault of Democrats, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. In the minds of Republicans, it's not the fault of the president.
The Republican National Convention will be tonight. The theme is......white nationalism.
Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence will offer nothing more than the usual word vomit about how Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are dangerous for America. They will say in real time, the Democrats are supporting anarchy and rioting in the streets.
They will repeat the lie that Biden wants to take away your firearms and defund the police. They will say that "we should not rush to judgement" when it came to the video of Jacob Blake, the Wisconsin man who was shot eight times and is now paralyzed from the waist down.
Protest continue in Kenosha and the country. |
Black people are never given the benefit of the doubt. Every time a Black man is shot by the police, the far-right agitators like Candace Owens, Deanna Loraine, Andy Ngo and Colin Flaherty will bring up the criminal history and justify reasons to why a cop would use lethal force.
Fuck this shit!
The white nationalists and conservative tokens are trying to define the situation as Jacob deserving his fate. They are saying:
- If he would of complied....
- If he would not have reached....
- If he would not have resisted....
- If he would not have done what he's done....
Americans are fucking cynical. They don't see the bigger picture. They don't see a cop grabbing a man by the shirt collar and shooting him eight fucking times (at point blank range). They shot him in front of his children.
Police toss tear gas into the crowd to get them off the streets. |
THOSE COPS FUCKED UP BIG TIME.
NOW EVERY COP IS GOING TO FACE SOME FORM OF VIOLENCE BECAUSE OF IT!
The mayor of Kenosha has issued a mandatory off the streets curfew at 8pm. The city has imposed a state of emergency. Gov. Tony Evers declared a state of emergency.
The governor, lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) have spoken about the situation. They have called for an immediate investigation into the matter.
No comment from Donald J. Trump or Mike Pence.
And course, the white agitators who came to cause chaos and tarnish Black Lives Matter.
Social media says this white terrorist murdered two people. |
You heard of this white extremist group called the Boogaloo Bois?
I haven't but the Southern Poverty Law Center has addressed this group as a bunch of white cabana boys who are rooting for a civil war. These extremists are a subgroup of the Proud Boys.
What makes this so fucking frustrating is the fact that the Republican sheriff of Kenosha County, David Beth supports the armed white extremists watching the streets.
One of these Boogaloo/Proud Boys shot two protesters dead without a care. No cop took action to disarm and neutralize that threat. No cop ever told those white extremists to drop their firearms.
Video of the incident shows all 3 who were shot. They rushed the guy. One even pulled a pistol. The two who escaped alive should be grateful they're not dead.— AniMoon Ogatari (@AnimoonOgatari) August 26, 2020
The dead protester got what he fucking deserved. Laugh at his idiocy.#callthepolice #Boogaloo pic.twitter.com/aTUFJtPAro
Correction: I said "dead protester." I meant "dead rioter." I apologize for using the incorrect term.— AniMoon Ogatari (@AnimoonOgatari) August 26, 2020
Someone asked where the pistol is. The one who was shot in the arm had it. Here are two images of him having it out during the attack and him holding it after being shot. pic.twitter.com/aJKwGPYAAR— AniMoon Ogatari (@AnimoonOgatari) August 26, 2020
3 people shot same night of #RNC2020 in #KenoshaProtests by this suspect. Seems to be a boogaloo or proud boy? pic.twitter.com/PknAwk3s1D— 𝖉𝖇 (@dommyblanco) August 26, 2020
#Kenosha: Isn’t this the kid from the shooting that was chased by #BlackLivesMatter?— Slightly Offens*ve (@SlightlyOffens) August 26, 2020
Green shirt
Hat
Blue jeans
Red backpack pic.twitter.com/M5ah5TGiE9
Extended footage of the shooting in Kenosha. pic.twitter.com/oBG6UgT0Fs— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 26, 2020
Hella shots fired at #KenoshaRiot and appears at least one person hit in chests. Video Credit REGG INKAGNEDO YouTube 👀👀🤯🤯 #KenoshaUprising #KenoshaShooting pic.twitter.com/Cpz3YTH90k— Simulation Warlord🇺🇸 (@zerosum24) August 26, 2020
Used car lot pillaged as rioters break inside and smash windows of vehicles parked in front #KenoshaRiots #Kenosha pic.twitter.com/w0reevEiaM— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) August 25, 2020
White extremists online are praising this callous murder. This terrorist came to Kenosha to cause havoc and is willing to be a martyr for white nationalism.
There's no self-defense when you were intending on showing up to cause a scene. There's no self-defense when you're literally showing "manhood" at a peaceful protest.
The alleged terrorist was caught on camera getting a bottle water from the SWAT.
Armed protester or armed agitator? The graphic image of a man tending to a gunshot wound has went viral. |
Two people were killed and another was wounded as shots were fired late Tuesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the third night of unrest following the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake.
The shootings were reported at about 11:45 p.m. in an area where protests have taken place, Kenosha police Lt. Joseph Nosalik said in a news release. They happened after police drove away protesters from in front of a courthouse that had been the site of the main clashes between protesters and authorities.
Cellphone video of at least two of the shootings that was posted online shows what appears to be a white man with a semi-automatic rifle jogging down the middle of a street as a crowd and some police officers follow him. Someone in the crowd can be heard asking "What did he do?" and another person responds that the man had shot someone.
The man with the gun stumbles and falls, and as he's approached by people in the crowd, he fires three or four shots from the seated position, hitting at least two people, including one who falls over and another who stumbles away to frantic shouts of "Medic! Medic!"
Julia Jackson is angry over the police not giving her details to why her son was shot. |
Protester Devin Scott told the Chicago Tribune that he witnessed one of the shootings.
"We were all chanting 'Black lives matter' at the gas station and then we heard, boom, boom, and I told my friend, that's not fireworks," said Scott, 19. "And then this guy with this huge gun runs by us in the middle of the street and people are yelling, 'He shot someone! He shot someone!' And everyone is trying to fight the guy, chasing him and then he started shooting again."
"I was cradling him in my arms. I was trying to keep this kid alive and he wasn't moving or nothing. He was just laying there," Scott said. "I didn't know what to do and then this woman starts performing CPR. There was no pulse. I don't think he made it."
The shooting victims have not been identified.
Jacob Blake, Sr. tearfully tells the junk food media that he doesn't trust the state and federal investigators. |
The shooting of Blake — apparently while three of his children looked on — was captured on cellphone video and ignited new protests over racial injustice in several cities, coming just three months after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police touched off a wider reckoning on race.
Earlier Tuesday, Blake's father spoke alongside other family members and lawyers, telling reporters that police shot his son "seven times, seven times, like he didn't matter."
"But my son matters. He's a human being and he matters," said Blake’s father, who is also named Jacob Blake.
The 29-year-old was in surgery Tuesday, said attorney Ben Crump, adding that the bullets severed Blake’s spinal cord and shattered his vertebrae. Another attorney said there was also severe damage to organs.
"It's going to take a miracle for Jacob Blake Jr. to ever walk again," Crump said.
When asked what the police response to the family has been, the family's lawyer said, "At this point, it seems to be a one-way street. They only want to get information from the family and the friends who were there that day. But they have offered this family no answers whatsoever."
Blake's mother, Julia Jackson, told CBS This Morning in an interview that aired Wednesday that she feels like she's in a "bad dream" and that it felt "unreal" that her son's name has been added to the list of Black people who were shot by police.
"Never in a million years did I think we would be here in this place. Him being alive is just a miracle in itself."
Jacob's family call for the cops involved to be fired out the cannon and criminally prosecuted. |
Police fired tear gas for a third night Tuesday to disperse protesters who had gathered outside Kenosha's courthouse, where some shook a protective fence and threw water bottles and fireworks at officers lined up behind it. Police then used armored vehicles and officers with shields pushed back the crowd when protesters ignored warnings to leave a nearby park.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers had called for calm Tuesday, while also declaring a state of emergency under which he doubled the National Guard deployment in Kenosha from 125 to 250. The night before crowds destroyed dozens of buildings and set more than 30 fires in the city's downtown.
"We cannot allow the cycle of systemic racism and injustice to continue," said Evers, who is facing mounting pressure from Republicans over his handling of the unrest. "We also cannot continue going down this path of damage and destruction."
Three of the younger Blake's sons — aged 3, 5 and 8 — were in the car at the time of the shooting, Crump said. It was the 8-year-old's birthday, he added.
The man who said he made the cellphone video of the shooting, 22-year-old Raysean White, said he saw Blake scuffling with three officers and heard them yell, "Drop the knife! Drop the knife!" before the gunfire erupted. He said he didn't see a knife in Blake's hands.
In the footage, Blake walks from the sidewalk around the front of his SUV to his driver-side door as officers follow him with their guns drawn and shout at him. As Blake opens the door and leans into the SUV, an officer grabs his shirt from behind and opens fire. Seven shots can be heard, though it isn't clear how many struck Blake or how many officers fired.
Blake's father told the Chicago Sun-Times that his son had eight holes in his body.
Anger over the shooting has spilled into the streets of Kenosha and other cities, including Los Angeles, Wisconsin's capital of Madison and in Minneapolis, the epicenter of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer following Floyd's death.
Hundreds of people again defied curfew Tuesday in Kenosha, where destruction marred protests the previous night as fires were set and businesses vandalized. There were 34 fires associated with that unrest, with 30 businesses destroyed or damaged along with an unknown number of residences, Kenosha Fire Chief Charles Leipzig told the Kenosha News.
"Nobody deserves this," said Pat Oertle, owner of Computer Adventure, surveying the damage on Tuesday. Computers were stolen, and the store was "destroyed," she said.
"This accomplishes nothing," Oertle said. "This is not justice that they're looking for."
Jacob Blake was shot on his son's birthday. |
Evers continued to call for protesters to be peaceful.
"Please do not allow the actions of a few distract us from the work we must do together to demand justice, equity, and accountability," he said.
Blake's family also called for calm.
"I really ask you and encourage everyone in Wisconsin and abroad to take a moment and examine your hearts," Blake's mother said. "Do Jacob justice on this level and examine your hearts. ... As I pray for my son's healing physically, emotionally and spiritually, I also have been praying even before this for the healing of our country."
African Americans are going to send a message to the police.... Our message is pure and simple!
STOP KILLING US! STOP USING THE "I FEAR FOR MY LIFE" AS AN EXCUSE!
Cops should be able to take down a suspect without use of force. They have them Tasers! Oops, they shot people who grab Tasers.
They get in their vehicles and pull off. Oops. Cops shoot at cars when they back up and flee.
Will there be justice for Jacob Blake? |
WHEN COPS SEE A BLACK MAN WITH A FIREARM REGARDLESS OF IT BEING LEGAL OR ILLEGAL, THEY AUTOMATICALLY SHOOT THE BLACK MAN. EVEN AN UNARMED BLACK MAN JUST REACHING FOR A WALLET OR A DOOR HANDLE COULD BE KILLED BY THE COPS. NOW A BLACK MAN FLEEING AN ARRESTING OFFICER COULD BE KILLED. WHETHER THEY'RE IN THEIR VEHICLE OR RUNNING FROM THEM. THE COPS WILL SHOOT THE BLACK MAN.
THE POLICE AND JUNK FOOD MEDIA TRY TO MAKE THE VICTIM, "THE BAD GUY" BY BRINGING UP HIS PAST HISTORY, HIS SOCIAL MEDIA OR HIS FAMILY LIFE.
MANY WHITES (IN LARGE GROUPS) HAVE FIREARMS IN FRONT OF POLICE AND THEY NEVER GET SHOT OR KILLED. WHY AREN'T THEY AFRAID OF THEM?
WHENEVER SOMEONE COMPLAINS ABOUT THE LACK OF BLACK FATHERS, I CONTINUE TO DENOUNCE THIS BULLSHIT. I OFTEN REMIND THEM THAT THE POLICE KILL BLACK FATHERS. THE POLICE LEAVE CHILDREN OF COLOR WITHOUT A BLACK FATHER. AND NO AMOUNT OF MONEY COULD BRING THE PEACE AND TRANQUILITY TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED BY THE COPS.
We have unrest in the nation. African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans had enough of the status quo in politics, religion, entertainment and law. The need to change started on May 25, 2020 when a cop placed his knee on the neck of an American citizen. He screamed, "I can't breathe...." and cried for his "mama."
It never happens in your community.......! Until it does! Every community in the United States will eventually have a legacy. A legacy of tragedy. A mass shooting will affect your town, your family and your life. So I don't want to hear that bullshit about how "guns save lives." They don't. The only thing that survives a gun shooting is the gun.
FOR EVERY BAD COP, THERE WILL BE A DEAD COP!
Do the police treat armed militias better than an unarmed Black man?
I DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET OR THE COP'S VERSION.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
THERE IS NO GOD!
GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS!
We haven't forgotten about the many mass shootings in the United States. COVID-19 doesn't stop individuals from picking up firearms and killing others.
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