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Kenosha man pleads with rioters, ‘do not destroy people’s businesses’. Rioters: ‘Well burn your shop down too’

Kenosha man pleads with rioters, ‘do not destroy people’s businesses’. Rioters: ‘Well burn your shop down too’ 1

KENOSHA, WI– On Tuesday night, a local man made it a point to stop and talk to those who were present at a riot that was taking place. He simply asked them to not destroy people’s businesses because they are people’s livelihoods.

The response from the anti-police activists? They told him that they would burn his business down too. The Daily Wire reported that the man pleaded with the activists:

“What y’all don’t understand is that people have their lives in these businesses too.”

In response, a woman yelled back:

“So what? We pay for that! We pay for that!”

The man responded:

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“So what, just because y’all too scared to go deal with the cops, y’all are just going to burn the whole town?”

The same woman yelled back:

“Yes! Yes!”

The man said:

“Yeah and then y’all got maced and sh*t like that and y’all took off.”

He pointed in the direction of the police and said:

“Take your issues up with them.”

In a video that was shared on social media, it appeared that someone tried to do something to his car because the jumped out with a baton and warned someone to leave his car alone. The crowd began yelling, telling him that he needed to go. Someone said to him in a snarky manner:

“Bye, have a nice day.”

The man responded:

“Go ahead, do my business. I don’t give a f*ck. Come on up.”

A woman in the crowd yelled:

“We’ll burn your shop down too. We’ll burn it down too.”

The incident happened as Kenosha saw a third night straight of violent protests and civil unrest after the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, 29. 

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that these violent protests have left a trail of smoldering destruction from the city’s government campus all the way to its Uptown area. At least six buildings burned to the ground, including small businesses and a Wisconsin probation and parole office.

Not to mention, 140 cars in a dealership lot were engulfed in flames and charred. Countless other buildings had smashed windows and vandalized exteriors. Christine Wallent’s furniture store that has been family owned and operated for the last 40 years said:

“This is numbing. This is our livelihood.”

Several others witnessed their buildings being damaged on Facebook live streams, hearing their own alarms sound and watching their property being destroyed. Kelly Towers, a member of the community who lives along 60th Street and who sometimes helps out at Treasures Within, a thrift store, said that people smashed windows and tried to set fire to several buildings.

She said she saw people dousing flames with red gasoline containers and was called white slurs when she tried to intervene. Getting emotional, she said:

“The neighborhood is not bad. Hardworking small businesses.”

The thrift store owner, Jim DeGrazio said that he has been on the block for 28 years. His front windows were smashed, several items were stolen, and he found evidence of attempted arson. He said that his business probably took at least $10,000 in damages.  After being asked if the business will recover, he said:

“I don’t really have a choice. This my livelihood. I’m not a quitter. I’m just trying to figure out what we did to deserve this. I treat people well.”

Wallent said that it will be difficult for the neighborhood to recover and that she cannot fathom Kenosha residents being responsible. She said:

“This isn’t a rich neighborhood. This’ can’t rebuild easily. I don’t believe anyone in Kenosha would do this.”

Authorities said that a Jackson Hewitt Tax Service was looted overnight. Computers and checkbooks were stolen. Lori Zetterberg, the branch manager, said that her business services 1,200 people in the area and e employs people who support the Black Lives Matter movement. She said:

“I have employees that need me to rebuild. This doesn’t get justice for anyone.”

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Here is another article from Law Enforcement Today about the riots in Kenosha:

KENOSHA, WI – The second night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin brought extensive damage – and widespread destruction against the black business district.

The Department of Corrections building was one of the first to fall.  And with it, seemingly symbolically, fell the American flag.

The riots were sparked by the shooting of a man with an arrest warrant for everything from domestic violence to sexual assault.

What started as a peaceful demonstration, like many, turned violent hours into the curfew.

Arsonists torched commercial and government buildings and car dealership lots.

As the crowd of rioters grew into the hundreds, police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and smoke bombs to disperse them.

Protester Porche Bennett, 31, of Kenosha told Reuters that the instigators she saw were white – and not from the city.

“It’s people from out of town doing this. We’ve been shopping there since we were kids and they set it on fire,” Bennett said.

Imagery on social media showed rioters who were both white and black. 

You could see black men smashing traffic signals and street lamps with baseball bats and both white and black men smashing in windshields and headlights of a row of cars.

Reuters reported that one white man riding a skateboard doused a government truck with an accelerant and torched it.

In the meantime, another huge group of rioters launched fireworks and frozen water bottles at police in front of the courthouse.

Here’s the backstory.

Late Sunday, August 23, pervasive looting and vicious riots broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in reaction to the shooting of an African American male by police officers.

On August 23, Kenosha Police responded to a report of domestic violence, where Jacob Blake, a 24-year-old, of Kenosha was the suspect.

Blake is an African American who has a violent criminal history. There was also a warrant issued for his arrest on July 7, 2020. The arrest warrant is for domestic violence, sexual assault, and disorderly conduct.

According to the Daily Wire News, Journalist Drew Hernandez commented that those doing the rioting and looting were Black Lives Matter (BLM) members. BLM also posted various tweets and videos regarding the vicious rioting on Twitter.

The looting and rioting caused a lot of property damage.

Democrat Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers was quick to condemn the police about the shooting of Blake late on Sunday. Blake had been shot earlier in the day by police while responding to a domestic violence incident. Even though Evers didn’t have the complete details of the incident, he still criticized the police for the shooting.

Evers said:

“Tonight, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times, in broad daylight, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kathy and I join his family, friends, and neighbors in hoping earnestly that he will not succumb to his injuries.

While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hand of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.”

Evers added:

“And we stand against excessive use of force and immediate escalation when engaging with Black Wisconsinites. I have said all along that although we must offer our empathy, equally important is our action. In the coming days, we will demand just that of elected officials in our state who have failed to recognize the racism in our state and our country for far too long.”

The video of the shooting went viral online. It showed that something happened while police were engaged with Blake as they drew their weapons on him. According to Heavy.com, the police had an arrest warrant for Blake.

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The Wisconsin Circuit Court records reveal that Jacob S. Blake who is the same age as the male, with the same address as the block where Blake was shot, had a warrant issued on July 7.

This warrant suspected Blake of misdemeanor criminal trespass to a dwelling with domestic abuse; felony third degree sexual assault with domestic abuse; and misdemeanor disorderly conduct with domestic abuse.

In 2015, the Racine Eye newspaper wrote a story about how:

“Racine police say K9 Dozer had to help officers take a man into custody when the man refused to go quietly into custody after he pulled a gun at a local bar.”

Jacob Blake was that man involved in both the incident in 2015 and on Sunday, August 23, 2020.

In the bar incident, Blake was charged with a felony count of resisting arrest causing a soft tissue injury to a police officer, and a misdemeanor count for carrying a concealed weapon, one count for carrying a firearm while intoxicated, endangering safety-use of a dangerous weapon, and disorderly conduct.

These charges were not found on the circuit court website.

The Daily Wire reported:

“The Kenosha Police Department released a statement following the shooting that said that officers were called to the 2800 block of 40th Street, which appears to be the same street that was listed on the arrest warrant that had been issued, to respond to a domestic incident. The Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating the incident.”

Police officials stated that police on scene provided aid to Blake who was transported to a local hospital. Blake is in serious condition.

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