<![CDATA[Fires were still burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin Monday morning after protests erupted Sunday night]]> https://usagag.com/2020/08/24/fires-were-still-burning-in-kenosha-wisconsin-monday-morning-after-protests-erupted-sunday-night/ Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:48:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://usagag.com Fires were still burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin Monday morning after protests erupted Sunday night Fires were still burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin Monday morning after protests erupted Sunday night setting an entire car dealership and a church ablaze in the name of social justice.

The protests sprang out in response to a police shooting that left a black man named Jacob Blake dead in the sight of his three children early Sunday evening.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, large crowds began to gather at the scene of the shooting where small fires were lit followed by protestors directing their rage onto cop cars. Some protestors set off fireworks at police.

By 10:15 p.m., the paper reported, more than 100 had assembled outside the Kenosha County Public Safety Building. On Monday morning, the county said its courthouse and administration building remained closed from the damage they incurred from rioters.

After law enforcement declared an emergency curfew after 10:15 p.m. in affect until 7 a.m., mobs continued to riot throughout the night, lighting up an entire car dealership and then the Bradford Community Church around 3 a.m, the marquee for which read “Black Lives Matter.”

Kenosha’s violent weekend set off by the death of a black man from police is likely to spread nationwide as the nation still remains in an uproar from George Floyd’s passing in the custody of Minneapolis police. More than 80 days later, militants in Portland, Oregon have not ceased rioting, even as the mass violence of the protests has subsided in most major cities after the initial few weeks.

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