Big Jake
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- Oct 22, 2020
Well, at first the riots began as angry protests and "peaceful demonstrations" (if you count inciting crowds to stop accepting all the TOTALLY UNFOUNDED VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK MEN who the police shot after said black man resists arrest and an active warrant. Day 1 was more or less okay I guess. Day 2 things started getting out of control, and the belief was that the police were caught unprepared. Kenosha didn't have a SWAT team at the time (I believe they probably do now) and the higher politicians in the state hemmed and hawwed and basically did nothing as things began to escalate. The mood of the summer of 2020 was basically "they have a right to riot, they're just expressing 150 years of racism. I hate being white".So why did your community let that boy down like this? why werent there a thousand öpcaös with shotguns on patrol around the local shops?
dont you guys have baseball bats to give those commies hell?
For whatever it's worth and regardless of what anyone feels about him, Trump pushed to have the National Guard sent to town but again, local politicians told him to stay out of it. I mean the city was actually burning, AND being looted, but it's okay as long as it's BLM I guess. I'm trying hard not to take sides but it was literally like "HEY GUYS, CAN YOU PLEASE HELP???" and the response boiled down to "the police are there, anyone caught being violent will be arrested. Everyone else has a right to protest". If you look at the backstage discussions of the Wikipedia article about all this, they argued about whether to call them riots (which they were), "protests", or "unrest" which is what they ultimately settled on.
Kenosha's been painted as a conservative city. It's not, not at all. It's liberal more than anything (though I wouldn't personally consider the town to lean strongly one way or the other). Most responsible people - gun owners or no - just stayed inside and kept an eye on their property. It was the opportunistic children looking to bandwagon and "lend voice" to a racist organization that can speak just fine by itself that caused all the problems.