ABNA: Last Sunday, Jacob Blake Jr. was shot by an officer in Kenosha sparking fresh racial tensions across the country. The black man was shot in the back seven times in front of three of his children.
At least one of the bullets went through his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down - possibly permanently, the lawyers said Tuesday.
On Saturday, Trump announced plans to visit the violence-rocked city next week as about 1,000 people joined a mile-long marched there, chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “No Justice, No Peace.”
“We are tired,” said Darius Johnson, 27, of Milwaukee. “There is no excuse for this kind of racism. It could have been any one of us, my brother, my sister. It needs to stop.”
Trump, who has taken a hardline stance against the protests, is slated to visit Kenosha on Tuesday to meet law enforcement officials and assess damage caused during demonstrations, according to a White House official.
When asked if the president would meet with the family of Blake, White House Spokesman Judd Deere said the schedule has not been fully ironed out yet.
“The thing I’d like to tell Mr. President is that Black Lives Matter members are not the thugs, not the looters,” said Clyde McLemore, founder of a BLM chapter just outside of Kenosha. “He’s blaming us, and that’s not the way it is.”
During protests on Tuesday, two demonstrators were killed by a white right-wing teenager.
The alleged gunman Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, has been charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide, one count of first-degree reckless homicide, one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.
Rittenhouse's lawyer, Lin Wood, has claimed the shooting was made in self-defense.
Meanwhile, the commander of the National Guard said Friday that more than 1,000 Guard members had been deployed to Kenosha to crack down on the protesters. He added that more troops were on the way.
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