President Donald Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, amid fury over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the back, which left the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed.
White House spokesman Judd Deere told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday that Trump will be meeting with law enforcement officers and “surveying” some of the damage from recent protests that turned destructive.
The visit is certain to exacerbate tensions in the city, where a crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside a courthouse Saturday to denounce police violence.
Trump has been running his reelection campaign on a law-and-order mantle, denouncing protesters as “thugs” while voicing his support for police.
In his acceptance speech during the virtual Republican National Convention, Trump painted the election in hyperbolic terms as a stark choice between peaceful streets and anarchy.
Trump’s opponent for reelection, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate, Kamala Harris, have accused Trump of rooting for violence amid unrest in Wisconsin.
“He views this as a political benefit,” Biden said in an interview on MSNBC. “He’s rooting for more violence, not less. And it’s clear about that.”
Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey and two other officers were responding to a domestic dispute call last Sunday when Sheskey shot Blake in the back seven times. Cellphone video captured the shooting, which has sparked new protests against racial injustice and police brutality months after George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis officer touched off a wider reckoning on race.
(AP)
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Dems are looting.
He needs pictures of the carnage he is responsible for so so he can put it in ads and try to convince America that he is not responsible for it all. Joe Biden who is supposedly living in his basement is responsible for it all. Also Joe Biden hasn’t done anything in 47 years, but he will be so capable after being elected, that the country will become Socialist in three months and we will all be speaking Chinese. Wait he did that tough crime bill, but now he wants to defund the police and stop everyone from eating meat…. Trump is on top of everything had time to golf today and wish a white nationalist to rest in peace, after all he was a Trump supporter and that is all that matters.
“Potentially Stoking Tensions” ?
This slimy headline from AP show us how Joseph Goebbels (ys) propaganda works. Fake News AP already is projecting a blame for potential Marxist Democrat riots on Trump.
AO is probably not even a Jew.
Whatever happens, whether its police brutality, violence, or looting it’s all Trump’s fault. That is the ONLY democratic rhetoric. Biden lives and breathes fake news and literally believes it. And then he thinks the rest of the world are as idiotic as he is , and we will fall for it. Go back to your sewer bunker, Biden, and close your mouth. And for goodness sake, take Harris with you. You have never done anything constructive for America, and you never will.
Milhouse, i am not sure about AO’s “Jewishness” , but AO is decently paid or volunteered Democrat troll who pollutes this and may be other forums with Marxist Democrat propaganda..