LOCAL Wednesday, August 26, 2020 | kenoshanews.com | SECTION B Blake rallies converge in Kenosha reflect widespread outrage, but locals ultimately left to pick up pieces

TERRY FLORES [email protected]‌ ‌Two rallies converged Monday night in a show of support for Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was shot seven times by Kenosha Police while dozens of neighbors watched in shock, disbelief and anger Sunday. One brought together members of Black Lives Matter groups from other communities, including and Chicago, who demanded justice – hundreds who spent the day in Kenosha calling for the firing of the re- sponsible police officer and that criminal charges be filed. Their rally stopped traffic literally in the middle of Sheridan Road and 52nd Street — one of the busiest intersections in the city – for an hour. “We’ve got to be here for this family. We’ve got to be here for Jacob. And we’ve gotta stand up and keep on fighting every day,” said speaker Jay’Mal Green of Chicago, who called for the crowd to put their fists up in the air. Blake’s name became their mantra, set to a beat. And as they marched south to the Keno- sha County Courthouse nearby, they roused the familiar chants of “No justice, no peace.” Once at the courthouse, its steps and our community,” she said. “The sidewalks lined with deputies in A bove: Kenosha resident law protects them. How do we riot gear, they shouted that if they Terrance Warthen change those laws? We vote them didn’t get it, they need to “shut addresses an impassioned out of office.” it down.” crowd at a rally in Ald. Shayna Griffin, recently But the other rally, organized Civic Center Park for appointed to City Council and by Kenosha resident Terrance community unity and currently the sole Black woman Warthen, was meant to foster accountability Monday on the council said it’s tough to community unity while de- night amid protests of the be the only one. manding accountability. The im- Kenosha Police shooting “It’s so much pressure,” she passioned followers took a brief of Jacob Blake. Left: said. “But I promise to be a voice detour so that even he wondered Trinity Martin, 8, left, and and that’s all I wanted to do be- whether their message would Adrian Martin, 6, with cause I knew our voice was not be heard, but quickly turned Maelani Greathouse, 9, being heard.” back toward Civic Center Park carry homemade signs Carl Fields, a community orga- as planned. Speakers would talk supporting the Black Lives nizer for Racine-Kenosha Ex-in- about how locals, Kenosha res- Matter movement Monday carcerated People Organizing, idents, needed to make a differ- night at rally outside praised the people “black, white ence. the Kenosha County and brown” coming together on “These moments are always Courthouse. Mother Angel behalf of Black lives. beautiful for us when we see “We came out here to show Johnson said she brought people come together for a cause this can’t be tolerated,” he said. them to the rally to and to support their community. “We came here to show that the But one thing we miss out on is in empower them. powers that be work for us. Am I moments like this, a week from TE RRY FLORES, wrong? Then let them know it.” now, a month from now, a year KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO‌S Fields said that they also from now — too many of you have to understand their right are gone,” he said. “The media’s this position 20 years from now. peacefully . energy to change the leadership to vote and that the system is going to lead for the next story a I don’t want you to feel like I feel “I need to see this crowd when in the community. built to benefit one group at the week from now.” right now. I don’t want to bury I go to vote. I need to see this “Right now use your voices to expense of other groups. As a But he pointed to the Adminis- any of you. I don’t want any of crowd at city council meetings. make sure they know what we disenfranchised voter he said tration Building, the courthouse you to lose your family members Because when we stick together want,” she said. “We want the he became an organizer because and the Municipal Building, oth- any more. But we have to work and see this and ignore the they officers who shot Jacob Blake in he understands what it’s like and erwise known as City Hall, saying together on this.” and them … that’s when we start the back, we want them fired. We because “we need upstream pol- that is where the community’s Warthen emphasized that there to win,” he said. want them arrested and we want icy change.” government and judicial deci- was no “they” or “them” and that Warthen said that the people them prosecuted.” He questioned why they sions were made. Kenosha “is one community” and who govern are neither smarter She told them to show up at couldn’t meet under less unfor- “I need to see you there after urged those participating to know nor better than those who joined council meetings, County Board tunate circumstances. this … from now on. Every day,” their local leaders. the rally, but that “they work for and discuss with elected officials “Why can’t we meet under the Warthen said. “Every single “This can’t be a moment. You you.” what the community needs. progressive peaceful circum- chance you have to speak to your have to stay involved. You have “You pay for their salaries. You “It was only a matter of time stances? Why aren’t we meeting school board, common council to keep coming. Don’t fall for pay for these buildings. You pay before it happened here,” she on a regular basis to show them … this hurts. It hurts to be out the negativity and division that for these elections…when they said. Blake, she said, was the that power belongs to the peo- here. you see,” he said. “I’m looking out cease to work for you … fire them “straw that broke the camel’s ple?” he said. “That’s what we “It hurts to be turning into over a crowd that represents all of and replace them with those who back.” gotta do here in Kenosha.” a middle-aged man watching this city, all of this nation, all of will do the job we need to get “There are people every single That means becoming involved younger men die for things I ha- our people together.” done,” he said. day, whose civil rights are vio- in committees, such as, the Police ven’t been able to change yet,” he The hundreds who attended Angela Cunningham, an attor- lated. Police officers are using a and Fire Commission. said. “I need you to stick together were diverse group of ethnicities ney from Kenosha, said protesters little too much force when they’re “That’s what change is. That’s because I don’t want you to be in and races. He called on them to need to direct their “frustrated” interacting with the people in what it looks like,” he said. Residents wake to destruction in Uptown

during protests over the shooting Businesses were set on fire, 30 businesses of 29-year-old Jacob Blake by a homes were not, although resi- destroyed or damaged Kenosha Police officer Sunday, the dents said there were apartments shooting captured on a video that above businesses that burned. DENEEN SMITH has focused national attention on While the probation office was [email protected]‌ the city. destroyed by fire, the Crisis Cen- ‌Gary Stephens walked away While damage was concen- ter that shares a parking lot ap- from the ruins of the buildings trated downtown on the first peared untouched. still burning on 22nd Street in night of protests, rioting spread Uptown early Tuesday toward his into Uptown Monday and early ‘ Too many’ buildings burn‌ house less than a block away. Tuesday. The Wisconsin Depart- There was widespread dam- “Cause and effect, cause and ment of Corrections Probation age along 22nd Avenue between effect, that is what’s happening,” and Parole office on 60th Ave- 60th Street and Roosevelt Road, Stephens said. “I’m seeing people nue was completely destroyed by with firefighters continuing to being more upset about the prop- fire, along with an office furniture try to contain blazes Tuesday erty damage than they are about store. morning. Smoke along the street another unarmed Black person “Can you hear us now?” was was so thick along 22nd at about being killed by police in spray painted on the wall of the 7 a.m. it was sometimes difficult SEAN‌ KRAJACIC, KENOSHA NEW PHOTO … this is the effect of , of gutted probation office, which to see.

M Rescue workers continue to control fires while business owners go police racism.” was razed Tuesday morning. 1 through the damage done to their storefronts on Tuesday. Rioting broke out overnight Damage seemed to be focused. Please see UPTOWN, Page B3 Kenosha News LOCAL Wednesday, August 26, 2020 | B3 Police shooting puts Kenosha neighborhood in the spotlight

Here, it’s personal Journal reporter brought her help stem the violence. dog, Lois, with her. “It was All of that seemed far away n a sweltering hot Monday, either bring her here,” she ex- in the bright sunshine Monday, neighborhood residents plained, as the dog panted on the however, in the spot where the ‌Owere likely just looking to grass beside her, “or come home shooting happened. stay cool. to a messed up apartment.” (Lois Blake remains hospitalized Instead, they found them- was apparently suffering from in Milwaukee, and we sincerely selves in the glare digestive issues.) hope he recovers. His neighbors of a white-hot Watching it all were neigh- said being a young, healthy man media spotlight. bors, lined up in chairs, sitting should help him pull through. As I approached comfortably in the shade of their As the rally ended Monday and the corner of 28th house next door to the media the march started, the media Street and 40th throng. cameras were shut off, and the Avenue on Keno- They were tired of being inter- crowd dispersed. After dark, those peaceful ELIZABETH sha’s northside, I viewed by outside media — like ELIZABETH SNYDER‌. KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO walked past vans the woman who walked up the marches and protests gave way SNYDER Reporters from all over the country gathered on 40th Avenue and 28th from Chicago and driveway and asked them to to looting and arson. Street Monday for a noon rally and march in honor of Jacob Blake. Milwaukee TV “give me a sense of Kenosha.” As images of fires and tear gas stations. On both sides of the Chuckling, a man leaning on his New York, and I don’t even know This is the most deadly of fill the national news, the focus street, journalists were conduct- cane on the driveway pointed at where I am,” he said, shaking summer reruns in a season of shifts to the destruction — and ing on-camera interviews. me and told her, “Ask this lady his head and smiling. “If I get violence. away from the personal story of In front of me stood a jum- about Kenosha. She’s a reporter a ticket, that’s OK.” And off he We’ve seen this before — in Jacob Blake. bled line of cameras and micro- for the Kenosha News.” walked, to grab a spot among the cities from Minneapolis to Port- But not on this street. phones. You could tell which They were “all talked out” microphones. land, Ore. — as protests erupted “I just saw him,” said one of members of the media had ar- when it came to formal inter- We shook our collective heads across the country after the his neighbors, glancing wist- rived first. They were the ones views, but they were happy just and agreed that a police shooting death of , killed fully across the street. “He was huddled in the small bit of shade to chat with me as we waited for — this one of 29-year-old Jacob when a white Minneapolis police grilling out Sunday ... I just saw to be found at noon. the rally and march to start at Blake on Sunday afternoon — is officer kneeled on his neck for him ...” Reporters identified them- noon. not the way you want your city several minutes while he gasped, selves as being from the Milwau- They were also helpful, warn- to become a trending topic on “I can’t breathe.” Have a question or a comment? kee Journal Sentinel, USA Today ing another reporter to his . And here in Kenosha County, Email Liz at esnyder@ and the Chicago Sun-Times. car or risk getting a ticket. Rioting, tear gas, fires, broken for the second time since June, kenoshanews.com or call her at A Chicago-based Wall Street “I just got off a plane from windows. a curfew was put into effect to 262-656-6271.

struggling. “I think Up- related to looting. More taking the law into their Republican Party of Uptown town is done.” information on arrests may own hands. “I know peo- From B1 Sgt. David Wright of the be available Tuesday after- ple, they’ve got weapons. Kenosha County Sheriff’s noon. They’re going to start try- Kenosha County to “I don’t know, too many,” Department said he was Kenosha Fire Chief ing to protect their ,” a firefighter said when not aware of anyone being Charles Leipzig said there he said. “Isn’t what they asked how many buildings injured during the unrest. were 34 active fires associ- always said, looters get host events Thursday in the neighborhood had He said one member of law ated with the unrest, with shot?” burned. enforcement was slightly 30 businesses destroyed About a block away FOR THE KENOSHA NEWS said RPKC Chairman One resident of Up- injured when struck with or damaged along with an Brandon Morris, a resident ‌The Republican Party of Erin Decker. “Now is the town, who did not want a brick on the first night of unknown number of resi- of the nearby Lincoln Park Kenosha County (RPKC) time to learn how President to be identified, watched protests. dences. He said two fire- neighborhood, was watch- will be hosting a Republi- Trump will continue to help the firefighters at work. He said the department fighters were treated for ing the firefighters. Mor- can National Convention the American people if re- He said he understood the focused on attempting to dehydration. A firefighter ris, the basketball coach Watch Party this week. elected in November.” anger behind the destruc- slow movement of pro- from another department at St. Joseph High School The event will take place The event will follow the tion. “What they want is testers into the city, with that was providing mutual and mentor for Kenosha at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, RPKC’s social, “Pints and justice,” he said. “I agree exit ramps from Interstate aid to the city was taken to youth, got emotional when at Mason’s, 7000 74th Politics” at 7:30.m. on with the people.” 94 blocked and barricades the hospital for chest pain. talking about the events in Place, Kenosha. All Con- Thursday at Mason’s. Robbie Orvis also lives along Sheridan Road keep- the city. servatives and Republicans Special guest speaker for in the neighborhood. He ing traffic from moving into Witness ‘speechless’‌ “Emotions are all over are welcome to attend the the evening will be Candi- said he stayed inside Mon- downtown. Carr stood on her front the place,” Morris said. He free event. Food and bev- date for Assembly Crystal day and Tuesday morning, Wright and Sgt. Jeremy porch on 63rd Street said watching the video of erages will be available for Miller. Miller will discuss watching the protests and DeWitt of the Kenosha watching the firefighters. Blake’s shooting was diffi- purchase. her campaign to win the riots on social media while Police Department both She said there were three cult as an African-Amer- “We invite everyone in- 65th Assembly District listening to explosions out- said they were unsure of separate fires visible from ican man. “For me, it was terested in learning Pres- election. side. the number of arrests since her house overnight. She the screams of the women ident Donald J. Trump’s For more informa- “I don’t even know what protests began. DeWitt said said a mattress store ex- (on the video). The screams plans to Keep America tion contact the RPKC to say. I have no words. This one person was arrested ploded, spreading to other before the shooting. It was Great to join us at our Re- at kenoshacountygop@ is a disgrace,” Orvis said, Sunday for a gun-related buildings.“I’m speechless,” the anticipation—because publican National Con- gmail.com or 262-697- saying the working class offense, and said there have she said. “I understand why of what we have heard and vention watch party,” 6144. neighborhood was already been arrests for burglary this is happening, but peo- seen all over the country, ple are forgetting that peo- and what they knew was ple still have to live here. It coming. 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