• Third night of riots in Kenosha for injury Blake: two dead and one wounded. Trump sends reinforcements
  • New protests and clashes after African American shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, despite curfew

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August 27, 2020
President Donald Trump announced the dispatch of "federal forces and National Guard" to Kenosha with the agreement of Governor Tony Evers, 2,000 men of the National Guard from neighboring states, with 500 already deployed from that of Wisconsin, to which 200 men of law enforcement can be added, including the FBI. "We will not support looting, arson, violence and lawlessness on American streets," Trump wrote.

In an attempt, perhaps, to ease the tension, he was given the name of the officer who shot Blake: his name is Rusten Sheskey and has served in the Kenosha Police Department for seven years. The Wisconsin attorney admitted in a press conference that there are currently no indictments for Blake's injury, but that "the investigation continues". However, it was ascertained that Sheksey shot Blake as he held him by the shirt to prevent him from getting into the car, after the other officers tried unsuccessfully to immobilize him with the taser. In the car, the police then found a knife under the floor on the driver's side. fact admitted by Blake himself.     

A 17-year-old white man, identified as Kyle Rittenhouse, suspected of last night's two murders, was arrested 20 kilometers from Kenosha, Illinois. The boy is said to be part of a group of volunteer 'vigilantes' who had asked the sheriff of Kenosha to be able to do a public order service to the protests for the wounding of Jacob Blake, receiving a refusal. From the videos circulated on social media, Kyle Rittenhouse was together with other armed men who protected a gas station on Tuesday night. The images show him running down the street chased by protesters who want to remove his AR-15 rifle and then falls to the ground and shoots those who try to disarm him. 

The Jacob case continues to shake the United States. In the NBA and WNBA the matches scheduled for the evening have been postponed. Former US President Barack Obama immediately expressed his support. Joe Biden, phoned Blake's family and promised them justice. "Once again, a black man was shot by the police. In front of his children. It makes me sick," Biden wrote in a Twitter post.