Sky News Political Reporter annelisenews says there is an obvious distinction between the people in Kenosha and those who come in for the sole purpose of protesting.
Sky News Political Reporter Annelise Nielsen says there is an obvious distinction between the people in Kenosha and those who come in for the sole purpose of protesting. After Jacob Blake was shot in the back just over a week ago in Kenosha, Wisconsin, protesters have marched in the city’s centre, with some demonstrations turning violent.
“It is an absolutely marked difference between the people in Kenosha and those who come in to protest,” Ms Nielsen told Sky News host Paul Murray. “In the week after the shooting … 102 of the more than 170 arrests were people who don’t live in Kenosha. “So many of the people who support Donald Trump, who don’t support Donald Trump they were looking at the damage and saying ‘these aren’t our people, these are people who are out there to wreak havoc’.
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