News Roundup

Threads of the modern American experience that for months have been pulled with increasing tension came together as the fuse for an explosion of violence this week on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a teenager from Illinois armed with an assault rifle killed two people and wounded a third while acting as a vigilante property guard during protests arising from another officer-involved shooting of a black man.  As it was with the officer-involved shooting, the protest shootings instantly were broadcast into the public sphere from the cellphone cameras of onlookers, and as it has been with so much of this turbulent summer, assessments of fault are sharply divided.  Keep reading for more on this story and other news. Wisconsin.  The protests in Wisconsin came in response to Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey shooting Jacob Blake in the back seven times on Sunday while attempting to arrest him in connection with an argument on a sidewalk involving several other people.  At the time of writing, specific details about the incident are scarce, but bystander video shows Blake disregard Sheskey after a scuffle while attempting to enter his own vehicle, where his three children were sitting.  Sheskey shot Blake from close range while pulling on his shirt to prevent him from entering the vehicle.  There are reports that a knife was found at the scene, but it is not clear at this time whether Blake possessed the knife at the time he was shot.  Blake survived the shooting but now is paralyzed [...]