A group holds rifles as they watch protesters on the street on Aug 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Protests continued following the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. — AP
Repeated calls for armed vigilantes to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to protect businesses following the police shooting of Jacob Blake spread across social media in the hours before two people were shot to death and a third was wounded during a third night of unrest in the city.
Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit urged militias and other armed people to head to the protests, researchers at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab said in a blog post on Aug 26. The demonstrations broke out after Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was left paralysed Sunday when he was shot from behind by officers answering a domestic dispute call.
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