Tear gas lands around protesters after they refused to listen to police demands to disperse near the courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday, August 25, 2020. (Chris Juhn/Zuma Press/TNS)
Police were looking for a man armed with a “long gun” after one person was killed and two others were injured, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Police are probing whether the shooting came from a clash between protesters and armed men defending businesses, the New York Times reported.
Kenosha has seen heavy protests and sporadic violence since a Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot multiple times at close range by police. Hundreds of protesters, enraged by yet another shooting of a Black man by police officers in yet another city, ignored a curfew order and kept demonstrating late into the night. Tear gas was deployed as crowds refused to disperse, and amid reports of objects being thrown at police officers.
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I have to disagree with your comment where you recommend to just do what the police officer tells you. The police do not have all powerful authority, although they seem to think they do.
GRANTED....But My reason for saying "do what they tell you to do" is.....So many people being shot unnecessarily, that if suspects would do as asked, they still have the opportunity to have their "day in court".....You realize that most of these "suspects" are guilty of some infraction of the law, otherwise they wouldn't be in a "situation"..BUT,... you are right....The police are NOT all powerful..! But again...they seem more than willing to use those weapons.....
When it's you and a cop they do have all powerful authority weather you think so or not. What's so hard to understand ?
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