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| Kenosha Police f--ked up. |
Kenosha, Wisconsin was the place where Jacob Blake was shot and paralyzed by a cop. It was also the place where white terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two men also severely injuring one other got away with murder.
The reactions to the arrest were swift and many believe that Kenosha Police need reforms now.
Especially allowing a white terrorist to go home after murdering two people. He didn't even live in the fucking state and yet managed to crocodile his tears out of the iron college.
The police were tipped that a group of people who crashed a vehicle left the scene. The reports were that the group were spotted inside a local Applebee's. They pursue the suspects into the restaurant.
Jermelle English Jr. and Shanya Boyd — and began questioning the couple after being the only diners left in the restaurant, Harris said.
Harris said surveillance video later showed the suspects from the hit-and-run entering through a side door while no employees were present, then entering the bathroom.
Harris said police asked the couple to show which car they arrived in, to which English responded that he had nothing to do with the crash. He then picked up his baby and proceeded to walk away from the officers, she said.
This man was attacked at Applebees by Kenosha Police while he was holding his baby while he was having dinner with his family.
— 🥀_ Imposter 🥀 (@Imposter_Edits) August 10, 2023
The cops were looking for a black man involved in a hit-and-run, so they went for the first man they saw. pic.twitter.com/b7pcVPKLa4
Turns out the people they were looking for were in the restroom of the same restaurant.
— 🥀_ Imposter 🥀 (@Imposter_Edits) August 10, 2023
Maybe if the Kenosha police would use their words instead of going for the first black man they saw? is that asking too much from a cop?https://t.co/RgiEDkfu2y
Content warning.
— Raf Shimunov (@rafaelshimunov) August 9, 2023
Cops entered an Applebee's, found a Black man holding an infant, and beat him nearly out of consciousness claiming he may be linked to a hit and run.
Kenosha and Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin police. pic.twitter.com/FE99zVbqzX
The hit-and-run crash happened on July 20, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported this week. Police said that witnesses told them they saw two Black men and a Black woman flee toward an Applebee’s restaurant. One witness said the woman was carrying a child, according to police.
An Applebee’s employee told cops that some “suspicious people” who may have been involved in the crash were in the restaurant and directed officers to two people, including a Black man holding a baby.
The suspects managed to slip into the restrooms. The cops who were inside confront a father holding his son. They have an exchange and the cops would end up placing in on the ground with his baby in his arms. That's when the workers at the restaurant start filming and also telling the police they have the wrong people.
The cops tried to take the baby from the man and arrest him. The man yelled that he hadn’t done anything wrong and officers should let him go. The video shows that after the cops removed the baby from his arms, they threw him to the ground and an officer began punching him as he ordered the man to put his hands behind his back.
Cops then discovered the people responsible for the crash in the restaurant’s bathroom.
Police said the man who was punched wasn’t responsible for the crash but tried to leave in defiance of orders and resisted them.
Lt. Joseph Nosalik, a spokesperson for the Kenosha Police Department, didn’t immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press inquiring about the race of the cops who appeared to punch the man.
Kenosha found itself embroiled in a days-long protest in August 2020 after Officer Rusten Sheskey, who is white, shot Jacob Blake, who is Black, during a domestic disturbance. Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, fatally shot two men and wounded another, saying he had been attacked and fired in self-defense. A jury acquitted him of homicide and endangerment charges in November 2021.
Leaders of Kenosha, a nonprofit that describes itself online as advocating for transformative and restorative justice, held a news conference Wednesday to call for charging the cops involved in the Applebee’s incident.
“It just doesn’t seem that anyone was a voice of reason that had a uniform on,” said Tanya McLean, executive director of Leaders of Kenosha.
She said the cops acted out of fear, just as Sheskey did.
“We don’t want to stand here and have these conversations about people being harmed when they’re simply having a meal with their family,” she said.
The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The manager Jennifer Harris was fired because workers allowed the arrest video go viral.
She is suing the company for wrongful termination.
Kenosha Police have a history of misconduct and it time to hold these cops accountable.
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