KENOSHA, KOMPAS.com – Presiden AS Donald Trump called going to visit Kenosha, a city in Wisconsin Place Jacob Blake was shot up to seven times in the back.
Blake, a black man, suffered paralysis in his lower body after the shooting that occurred last Sunday (23/8/2020).
Jacob Blake’s father said his son was in a state of anesthesia during his hospitalization. However, at this point he was conscious.
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Trump told journalists while visiting areas hit by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and Texas that he said he might be visiting Kenosha.
The White House later confirmed the president would visit the city of Wisconsin next Tuesday (1/9/2020).
Reported Sky News Saturday (29/8/2020), later he will meet local law enforcement and discuss the extent of the damage Kenosha suffered.
Since Blake was shot seven times in the back, every night the mob has held demonstrations, and it has ended in riots in which buildings and vehicles have been burned.
On Tuesday (25/8/2020), two protesters were shot dead after a teenager opened fire into the crowd with semi-automatic rifles.
17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, was later arrested and charged with first degree murder and a host of other charges.
Wisconsin then declared a state of emergency, in which more than 1,000 National Guard members were deployed to restore the situation.
Meanwhile on the sixth night, Kenosha demonstrators chanted Black Lives Matter and “No Justice, No Peace”.
During the action, Jacob Blake Senior said that he wanted a change in the system, because the police are currently so brutal with racial injustice so obvious.
“There were seven bullets in my son’s back. So yes, I was angry. What made the police feel they had the right to kill my son?” he asked annoyed.
“What makes them entitled to see my son as an animal? What entitles them to take what is not theirs? I am fed up,” he said.
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