Two people were shot dead and another injured when at least one gunman opened fire on protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid demonstrations against the police shooting of Jacob Blake three days ago.
David Beth, the county sheriff, said one person was shot in the head and another in the chest just before midnight on Tuesday. Another was shot in the arm. The victims have not been identified.
Beth said people describing themselves as belonging to a militia had been patrolling Kenosha’s streets in recent nights but he did not know if the shooter was involved with such a group.
“They’re a militia,” Beth told reporters. “They’re like a vigilante group.”
One man with a handgun, interviewed by the Washington Post, said he had come after a call on Facebook to protect the city.
“Ain’t nothing being done. We’re the only ones,” said Joe, 29, who said he was a US Marine veteran. “Three thousand of us are armed and ready,” he added.
Hmmm. But remember, it's the "radical left" and "anti-fa" that you have to worry about. Not ####ing brain-dead ex-military arseholes responding to facebook posts about "protecting their city".
This is the sort of thing that could so easily spiral out of control into pretty much a race war. This has to be the most discontented U.S. population in modern times and decades of neo-liberalism and the media separation into rival echo chambers has created the perfect conditions for a second civil war. Trump seems to think the best thing to do is pour petrol on the flames.