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'People's worst fears' came alive in Kenosha: Guns, militia inject chilling dimension into protests


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As Kyle Rittenhouse secured a legal team Friday after being charged in the fatal shooting of two men at a protest against police brutality, demonstrators and law enforcement grapple with how the deadly gunfire in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has injected a chilling and long-feared dimension into protests. "But unfortunately, the horse seems to have left the barn on that point."The dreaded mix of guns and large crowds has been a persistent and growing concern for law enforcement for years.Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner, said the the violence in Kenosha is the “inevitable outcome” when private citizens – armed with military-grade weapons and driven by visceral reactions – take to the streets to assume the role of law enforcement.“The utilization of these weapons and the type of response that we’ve seen in communities like Kenosha, it’s just unacceptable," Davis said, adding that the risk to life is "very high when you have untrained individuals utilizing weapons like this."Davis said the unrest on display in Kenosha is a symptom of the most profound racial and political division he has seen in the country in more than three decades in law enforcement. And some of them are carrying guns."Segal said the increasingly "complicated" scenario raises a serious question: "Should we even be allowing people with weapons into spaces like this?"Asked why he felt the need for a gun in the midst of social justice protest, Rittenhouse was ready with an answer: "People are getting injured and our job is to protect this business," Rittenhouse told a Daily Caller reporter in video interview. But I also have my med kit."The encounter would prove more meaningful when it was revealed that Rittenhouse was later charged in connection with the fatal shootings of two men and the wounding of a third victim.WHAT WE KNOW:The men killed in Kenosha, one 'got along with everybody,' the other leaves behind a young daughterThe alleged violent encounters appear to be captured in darkened, yet stunning, video showing a rifle-toting man, a cap turned backward on his head, trotting down the middle of a Kenosha street apparently pursued by others before stumbling to the asphalt.From a sitting position, the gunman opens fire and at least two people fall wounded, while protesters scream in fear.After the shooting, video shows the gunman walking quickly toward approaching law enforcement vehicles with his hands up, only to have police pass him by.The image, juxtaposed with a separate video of police, guns drawn on Blake before he was shot just days earlier have come to represent in stark relief law enforcement's disproportionate response to Black suspects, analysts said.FACT CHECK:Jacob Blake did not 'brandish' knife"The irony is very difficult to swallow," Segal said.

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