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By Reuters
KENOSHA, Wis.- President Donald Trump challenged the deguyds to stay away and traveled Tuesday to Kenosha, Wisconsin, not to urge racial healing after a white officer shot a black man in the back, but did not explain law enforcement in a city shaken by civilians.Agitation.
While the United States is polarized by the problems of racial injustice and the use of force by the police, Trump looks closely at his white fan base with a “law and order” message as opinion polls show him taking the lead from his Democratic rival, a former vice president Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, Trump has largely overlooked racial injuries caused by the use of force through police and has minimized the more than 180,000 deaths in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Republican president also threatened to send more federal officials to towns governed by Democratic mayors, even though local officials opposed them, saying, “At some point Array … we’ll have to do it ourselves.”
Trump did not stop at Jacob Blake, who was paralyzed from the waist down after a white cop shot him in the back seven times on August 23.He also did not know Blake’s family, but he met his mother’s shepherds.
Instead, he promised to rebuild Kenosha and provide more federal spending for Wisconsin, a political battlefield state that Trump slowly won in 2016 and will have to remain in his column as he seeks re-election on November 3.
The president visited a burnt-out furniture store that destroyed the uprising, then an impromptu command center to congratulate National Guard troops who were summoned to reinforce local police after several nights of nonviolent protests that gave way to looting, fires and shooting.
“These are acts of non-violent protest, but a real domestic terror,” Trump told local business leaders in a high school gymnasium.
Peaceful demonstrators complained that violent, white agitators had hijacked their protests with damage to assets, but many have also been highly critical of the police, saying the United States wants to absolutely reconsider its law enforcement practices.
“To prevent political violence, we will also have to face radical ideology.(…) We’ll have to condemn the damaging anti-police rhetoric,” Trump said, adding that without his help, Kenosha would have “burned to the ground..”
CALL ‘CHANGE HEARTS’
The scale is absolutely not without empathy. While Trump dodged questions about systemic racism and police issues, he said he felt “terribly about anyone who’s going through it,” referring to the police shooting, and that he avenged to meet with the co-owners of Blake’s mother, the only two blacks on Trump’s roundtable.
Pastor James Ward called for greater efforts to “change other people’s hearts” and bring healing and peace to the community, while his wife and co-pastor Sharon Ward said, “I think it’s vital to have other black people at the table to solve the problem.”
Both the democratic governor of the state and the city’s Democratic mayor had suggested that Trump not give up to avoid escalating tensions and allow citizens to recover, but when he ran, the president pledged $1 million in federal funding for Kenosha’s law enforcement, $4 million for small businesses and $42.millions for public protection across the state, in contrast to the left’s calls to “defund the police.”
Much of the country has rallied around civil rights since George Floyd, a black man, died on May 25 after a white policeman knelt on his neck. The country takes this case into account when Blake shot himself while getting into his car on August 23.
Kenosha has become one of the sensitive cities where anti-racist protesters clashed with Trump supporters who converged on protest sites, blatantly carrying weapons while vowing to protect assets from looters.
A 17-year-old Trump supporter was accused of killing two other people and wounding with a semi-automatic rifle in Kenosha.Trump defended the white teenager, who faces six counts, and refused to condemn the violence of his supporters.
But in Portland, Oregon, the three-month siege of protests in the middle of the night that turned violent, a Trump supporter was shot dead On Saturday and the president lamented that they “executed a guy on the street.”
The president has taken credit for restoring peace in Kenosha since reinforcements from the National Guard and federal law enforcement were sent.Although Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers called more National Guard infantrymen from his own authority, Trump sent about two hundred federal law enforcement officers.
(Report through Jeff Mason; Additional report through Andrea Shalal; Written through Daniel Trotta; Edited through Howard Goller)
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