The buildings surrounding Civic Center Park, along with many downtown businesses, including the post office, Reuther High School, the Kenosha County Administration Building, and the Dinosaur Discovery Museum all sustained damage to their front windows and entrance foyers. The fire spread to most of the 100 other cars on the lot, damaging an entrance sign for the nearby Bradford Community Church (it did not spread to the church building itself). īy 2:30 a.m., a truck in a used car dealership along Sheridan Road was lit on fire. Near midnight, the crowd lit a small fire in front of a ground-floor window of the Kenosha County Courthouse and at least three garbage trucks and a trolley car were lit on fire. Starting at 11:05 p.m., police began using tear gas and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse crowds, which lasted throughout the night. Events in Kenosha Protests and riots Day 1: August 23Ī state of emergency was declared in the county starting at 10:15 p.m., and garbage trucks were used to block 56th Street. He was initially handcuffed to the hospital bed and deputies were posted in his room, but the handcuffs and deputies were later removed and a warrant for his arrest was vacated after Blake paid a bond. He survived, but is paralyzed from the waist down. He was shot after he opened the door to an SUV he had been using and reached into the vehicle. The incident occurred in Kenosha on August 23, 2020, as police officers were attempting to arrest Blake. Jacob Blake is an African-American man who was shot four times in the back during an arrest by police officer Rusten Sheskey over complaints of domestic violence by Blake.
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Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and other charges and in 2021 acquitted at trial on all counts. On August 25, two protesters were fatally shot and a third was injured by Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois. Further confrontations arose when armed militia members, whom Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth described as "like a group of vigilantes", arrived with the expressed intent of protecting businesses in the city. A state of emergency was declared on August 23, and the National Guard was activated the following day. The demonstrations were marked by daily peaceful protesting followed by confrontations with law enforcement and rioting and arson at night. In addition to street protests, marches, and demonstrations, the shooting also led to the 2020 American athlete boycotts. In the aftermath of the August 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake, protests, riots, and civil unrest occurred in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and around the United States as part of the larger 2020–2021 United States racial unrest and Black Lives Matter movements.
Up to $50 million (Kenosha Area Business Alliance estimate)