Defying local officials, Trump arrives in Kenosha amid protests, racial unrest

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KENOSHA - Defying requests to stay away, President Donald Trump arrived in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to highlight his “law and order” re-election campaign theme in a city upended by protests afte

r the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer.

The state’s governor and the city’s mayor both urged Trump to avoid Kenosha to prevent inflaming tensions and allow citizens to heal. A 17-year-old Trump supporter has been charged with killing two people and wounding another with a semi-automatic rifle in Kenosha. Trump defended the white teenager, who faces six criminal counts, and declined to condemn violence from his supporters.

Kellyanne Conway, a Trump adviser until Monday, said last week the president stood to benefit politically from the kind of unrest that erupted in Kenosha.Meanwhile he has largely overlooked the racial wounds caused by police use of force and plays down the more than 180,000 US deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.

Peaceful demonstrators have complained that violent agitators, often white, have hijacked their protests with property damage.

 

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