Wisconsin

It's not clear if the president's visit on Tuesday will include a meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, whose shooting by a police officer sparked fresh protests against police brutality.

A Black Democratic state rep in Tennessee said he's "appalled" by comparisons between today's racial unrest and Martin Luther King Jr.'s era of the Civil Rights movement.

"He's obtuse, and he doesn't get it," said one Milwaukee-area suburban resident who voted for Trump in 2016, but now says the president has failed to address racial unrest.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama said much of the racial unrest, "lack of empathy" and "systemic racism" America's children are seeing is emanating from the White House.

An extradition hearing for the 17-year-old, who faces five felony changes, is set for September 25.

"We're slowly losing a generation," Mayor John Artaramian told Newsweek, "and that's all of our faults."

After postponing playoff games on Wednesday and Thursday, the NBA has reached an agreement with players to resume the playoffs and demonstrate a greater commitment to social justice issues.

Conservatives have argued that the 17-year-old was acting in self-defense while shooting at two protesters in Kenosha.

"The voice of those people is not falling upon deaf ears. We are hearing what is being said," Chief Daniel Miskinis said on Thursday.

In the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake and the killing of two protesters, the ACLU has called for "the immediate resignation of Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis and Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth."

Four different law enforcement groups, on Thursday, sent a letter to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, asking him to avoid speaking on the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, "until the facts" are known.

More than 230 students and alumni of the private college signed an open letter objecting to the vice president's visit, calling it inappropriate and "disrespectful."

Two GoFundMe pages for 26-year-old Anthony Huber have raised over $78,000. The campaigns both identify Huber as being one of two victims in the Kenosha protest shooting that took place late Tuesday night.

The network faced a social media backlash for the words used in a chyron as a CNN correspondent reported live while standing in front of burning vehicles.

'The Daily Show' host said the gun didn't matter as much as who held it as he argued some saw black skin as the "most threatening" weapon.

A video of people being placed into law enforcement vehicles with no license plates have been shared on social media.

Sheskey, who has been with the Kenosha Police Department for seven years, held on to Blake's shirt and fired his service weapon seven times at the man's back, state authorities said.

Three days after the police shooting set off unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin and several other cities, state authorities have revealed some of the first details about what led up to it.

"Last night shows the threat of these 'militias' is a clear and present danger to those who protest," said leaders from the National Urban League and its Wisconsin affiliates on Wednesday.

The Milwaukee players never showed up for warmups prior to their Game 5 playoff with the Orlando Magic. The Magic players and the referees eventually left the floor as well. This follows a police shooting and two nights of riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

"They were armed. They were destroying property," Wisconsin state Representative David Bowen said.

"If there's somebody hurt, I'm running into harm's way. That's why I have my rifle, because I can protect myself, obviously," the 17-year-old says in a video.

The president said Wisconsin's governor "agreed to accept federal assistance" after three nights of violence in Kenosha.

The juvenile was arrested in Illinois and faces extradition to Wisconsin.

The man worked at a long-standing mattress store in the city and arrived at the shop that night to witness protesters attempting to set it on fire.

Letetra Widman delivered a powerful statement two days after police in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot her 29-year-old brother, leaving him fighting for his life in hospital.

Three people were shot as the third night of protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, turned deadly.

The activist has previously wrongly accused two people on social media in connection to seperate rape and murder cases.

Prosecutors in Kenosha County, Wisconsin charged Blake, 29, with third-degree sexual assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse last month.

"I think we have to create a threshold where, once you cross the threshold, Wisconsin, the United States, builds warehouses where we put these people," County Sheriff David Beth said in January 2018.