KENOSHA, Wis. — He walked near the front of the march in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Saturday, a trail of hundreds of demonstrators behind him, raising a black-gloved fist in the air. His white Chicago Bulls shorts flopped past his knees and the gold block letters on his black T-shirt glistened.Just a week earlier, Jesse Franklin, who drives a delivery truck, had never been to a protest.
With his swift push into activism, Franklin joins a growing crop of young people who have come from the sidelines and moved in as new leaders of a movement for racial justice that has grown at warp speed over the past several months in the wake of several highly publicized cases of police violence against Black people.
“What gave them the right to think that they can attempt murder on my son?” he roared into the microphone, wearing a T-shirt with a picture of his son that read, “I am a human being.”The police have suggested that the officers who confronted the younger Blake were responding to a caller’s complaint against him, and that they had an earlier warrant for his arrest on a sexual assault charge.
Letetra Widman, the sister of the younger Blake, said the shooting of her brother helped to bring new energy to the fight for racial justice. Demonstrations gave way to clashes between the police and protesters, which led to tear gas and rubber bullets being deployed. Some people vandalized and burned buildings and cars. White militiamen descended on the town with rifles, and a 17-year-old among them was charged with first-degree intentional homicide after fatally shooting two protesters.
All lives matter
The reason why these children are always so angry is because their music really sucks.
Tell them to get a job !!
Racial injustice seems to flow mostly from Democrats to Republicans. That's a fact.
The fist -- and the umbrellas. I remember them well from Occupy Hong Kong and the 2019 Hong Kong protests. So BLM is importing their ideas/tactics from China.
Why do Nergos keep pushing themselves on us?
Even though Wisconsin is largely democratic due to the huge teachers unions, they will not put up w this. WI will go red again in November
Start in the home.
Did you see the people from Seattle Antifa are there? Photos taken.
Shipping them in from Portland and Chicago ASAP!
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