Wisconsin’s governor has deployed 500 National Guard members to Kenosha ahead of a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial.
The Wisconsin Guard will stage outside the city, where closing arguments are expected to begin Monday. The soldiers will be tasked with protecting infrastructure and providing law enforcement with logistical support, but will not interfere with protests, the governor said in a statement.
“We continue to be in close contact with our partners at the local level to ensure the state provides support and resources to help keep the Kenosha community and greater area safe,” Gov. Tony Evers said in the statement. “The Kenosha community has been strong, resilient, and has come together through incredibly difficult times these past two years, and that healing is still ongoing. I urge folks who are otherwise not from the area to please respect the community by reconsidering any plans to travel there and encourage those who might choose to assemble and exercise their First Amendment rights to do so safely and peacefully.”
Rittenhouse, then 17, fatally shot two men and injured a third in August 2020 during unrest stemming from the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Blake, a Black man, was paralyzed after being shot in the back multiple times by a white officer.
Evers, a Democrat, was sharply criticized for not deploying the guard sooner to help prevent the looting, arson and rioting that severely damaged swaths of the lakefront city. Believing the police could not handle the situation alone, armed citizens — including Rittenhouse — took it upon themselves to patrol the city amid the chaos.
Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to all charges, arguing he fired his AR-15-style rifle in self-defense.
The potential verdict may have put other law enforcement agencies on alert, including the Chicago Police Department, which cancelled officers’ days off this weekend. The police union blamed the upcoming Rittenhouse deliberations, while the city cited general crime concerns.
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The question is, who is he afraid of? Is it BLM and ANTIFA who may riot no matter what the verdict is with more looting, burning, and pillaging! Or the citizens who have had enough of the nonsense and will defend their lives and property! Sincw as a Democrat he is sympathetic to the BLM/ANTIFA cause and did nothing amounting to anything before he might be more afraid of the citizens who are, he should be reminded, voters!
AND WHAT THE HELL is the point in ‘activating them. IF ALL THEY CAN DO IS JUST stand there?!?!?!
Its about as stupid, as putting up a fence around a home to keep critters out, and leaving a 3ft hole underneath it, that the critters can crawl under!
you voted for left wing destruction and now you are stuck with it.
you need to get a spine in wisconsin and put this down. no justice np peace can work both ways.
Is this the same governor that did not call up the national guard in the first place?
AND TOLD trump ‘shaddup’, when trump tried to ORDER him, to activate them during the height of the riots.
How will the nat’l guard protect the infrastructure? Will they have loaded g uns and be allowed to s hoot to k ill? It said they would be outside the city and they wouldn’t interfere with the protest. Sounds like it will be a riot not a protest. I may be wrong, but it sounds like having the nat’l guard is just for the headlines but will do nothing to stop any actual violence. Men of Kenosha better get their g uns and show up to do what Kyle did last year. Why is that so hard for P atriots to understand? Face the en emy and deal with them!
Exactly. ITS like saying “WE have 400 troops on the border”, but they Cannot DO JACK SQUAT.. All they are there for, is PHOTO OPS>… IMO That is not just a waste of time/manpower and money, BUT ABUSING what the national guard is there for..
Kinda reminds me of:
If you need 20,000 armed soldiers and razor wire fences to protect puppet Joe Biden’s inauguration from the people.
Then puppet Joe Biden probably was NOT elected by the people.
Let’s Go Brandon!!
HE wasn’t. HE WAS INSTALLED BY fraudulent votes, and corrupt bureaucrats.
For all the talk of Jan 6th no one has ever mentioned the leftist riots, looting and arson of the blm/antifa thugs over that summer. If Trump supporters were preparing to riot (again), would it be ignored by the radical leftist media as this is ?
HELL no.. THeyd instantly be labeled domestic terrorists, and have the full weight of the FBI THROWN at them.