“The shootings came after a confrontation between protesters and armed men who said they were protecting a gas station,” Mark Guarino and Jaclyn Peiser report. “Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that police are searching for a man seen in video footage holding a long gun. Shots were fired around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, police said. After the first shots, a young White man carrying a rifle began running north on Sheridan Road, away from a crowd of protesters. Video shows the armed man fall to the ground, and then fire multiple rounds into the crowd. Two more people fell to the ground, one shot in the arm and the other in the chest, the Journal Sentinel reported. … Beth told the Times that investigators are looking into the armed men in front of the gas station, who were recorded before the shooting arguing with protesters. One of the men told The Washington Post that he was there to stop people from breaking into local businesses, noting that he’d seen rumors online about pipe bombs being used. ‘If the cops aren’t going to stop them from throwing pipe bombs on innocent civilians, somebody has to,’ said an armed man in a red checkered shirt, who declined to give his name. (There’s no indication that any pipe bombs were involved in Tuesday’s unrest.)”
Jacob Blake’s family called for peace in the streets and the arrest of the officers who shot him. “Anger-fueled protests radiated across the nation Tuesday as the family of a 29-year-old Black man shot in the back by police in [Kenosha, Wis.] demanded swift action,” Guarino, Mark Berman, Peiser and Griff Witte report. “Julia Jackson, Blake’s mother, asked for Americans to show ‘how humans are supposed to treat each other.’ But the family also pinned responsibility for Blake’s grievous injuries on what they called a racist law enforcement system that brutalizes Black people, and expressed dismay that his shooter had not yet been fired or charged.