The nine taken into custody in the SWAT-style operation Wednesday were among dozens of people arrested this week in the Wisconsin city. The arrests have highlighted activists’ complaints that police have been responding to protests over the white officer’s shooting that left Blake, a Black man, paralyzed, even as they’ve tolerated armed militia groups. “We reject all claims that our crew was there to incite violence or build explosives,” said Scheurle, who was not among those in Kenosha. They arrested a group of people in one vehicle and searched the car of another group. Earlier in the week, sheriff’s deputies shot pepper balls at protesters and arrested them when they failed to quickly leave after being told they were breaking curfew.

Source: Huffington Post August 29, 2020 07:30 UTC