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Kenosha shooting strains tie between Black residents, police


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The New York Times
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/bdb1c9b84ad8f57a5cf5bc4d342d74ac
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On Wednesday, a 17-year-old from a nearby Illinois community killed two demonstrators, according to authorities.Kenosha Alderman Anthony Kennedy, who is Black, said he often works with police to the benefit of the neighborhood he represents and was surprised by what he saw on the video.“Watching that video of Mr. Blake, you should be angry,” Kennedy said. “If you’re Black, that might be the end of your life — you get shot or you might face 20 (years in prison).”Tensions simmered Thursday as a number of businesses remained boarded up and some motorists shouted at law enforcement driving around Kenosha.“The police here are terrible and they treat Black people awful,” said Jacob Conway, a 22-year-old white Kenosha resident who said he has joined protests every night since the shooting. Wide disparities in income between white and Black residents of Kenosha, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago and other major metropolitan areas in the Midwest have helped create “underlying frustration and anger in the minority communities in these cities,” said Don Grimes, an economics specialist at the University of Michigan.Yet some elected officials and professionals in Kenosha either believe racial discrimination doesn’t exist in the area or refuse to openly acknowledge it, said Roberts, who spent three years in the Coast Guard and six years in the Army where he served in Afghanistan.“It’s gotta get worse before it gets better,” he said.

As said here by COREY WILLIAMS and RUSSELL CONTRERAS