At protests following the death of Jacob Blake, protesters gathered outside a Kenosha police precinct. Protesters threw water bottles and shot of fireworks. Police responded with tear gas and impact munitions.
tags: protester, tear-gas, shoot, projectile
id: wi-kenosha-1
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- https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1297822172556165121
- https://twitter.com/Rosemvmt/status/1297743591947874304
- https://twitter.com/AFriendlyDad/status/1297747684455936003
- https://twitter.com/lauren_linder/status/1297772465020600321
- https://twitter.com/lauren_linder/status/1297775472055640065
Protesters were ordered to disperse from the court house. The crowd remained in front of the court house; protesters threw fireworks and water bottles at police. Police and National Guard deployed more tear gas and used the LRAD dispersal function; in addition, they shot protesters with impact munitions.
A student journalist from DePaul University was hit with a tear gas canister.
tags: protester, shoot, projectile, lrad, tear-gas, tear-gas-canister, journalist
id: wi-kenosha-2
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- https://twitter.com/ToolFree2point0/status/1298093859537408002
- https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1298094278086987776
- https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1298098250453483520
- https://twitter.com/delvecchiograce/status/1298085959922266114
- https://twitter.com/OmarJimenez/status/1298097739235024896
- https://twitter.com/themariague/status/1298102173490917378
- https://twitter.com/RicoReporting/status/1298078303518183425
- https://twitter.com/johnhendren/status/1298086706042871808
- https://twitter.com/lauren_linder/status/1298074911244722177
- https://twitter.com/VenturaReport/status/1298077434475151361
- 13:00
- https://twitter.com/lauren_linder/status/1298077570622197764
- https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1298072456066994176
- https://twitter.com/jameststein/status/1298072246704119810
- https://twitter.com/mattsmith_news/status/1298071296627154944
- https://twitter.com/JohnKeilman/status/1298082510191104000
- https://twitter.com/tbettack10/status/1298088265640284163
- https://twitter.com/hgflores_/status/1298096911115857922
- https://twitter.com/RichieMcGinniss/status/1298101016995549185
After pushing protesters away from the courthouse, a small group of protesters is clustered on a sidewalk. From across the street, police fire tear gas and impact munitions, believed to be sponge rounds. Police also discharge pepper spray.
tags: protester, shoot, projectile, tear-gas, pepper-spray, spray
id: wi-kenosha-3
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Protesters gathered outside the courthouse in Kenosha, rattling a fence erected that day. Police gave a dispersal order. Protesters did not disperse. Police then deployed tear gas and the LRAD alarm to disperse protesters.
tags: protester, tear-gas, lrad
id: wi-kenosha-4
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- https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia/status/1298446600264507393
- https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia/status/1298446600264507393
- https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia/status/1298446600264507393
- https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia/status/1298446600264507393
- https://www.facebook.com/cjtv.io/videos/636700277255679/
- https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1298458923855478784
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSxQAw39smU
- https://twitter.com/RicoReporting/status/1298489186367012865
- https://twitter.com/blackzebrapro/status/1298652150835351554
- https://twitter.com/blackzebrapro/status/1298652286261039106
A journalist is being walked away from a scene by a police officer. She tells the officer not to touch her and says, "I'm walking, you don't need to touch me. At this point, you're just showing all of us how little your dick is." The officer then arrests her for disorderly conduct.
tags: journalist, arrest, abuse-of-power
id: wi-kenosha-6
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A woman is seen filming protests. She gets into an altercation with an officer. The officer grabs her, then she shoves him away. The officer then pepper sprays her. She stated in an interview afterward that an officer grabbed her breast, so she pushed away; the officer then sprayed her.
tags: journalist, pepper-spray, spray
id: wi-kenosha-5
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- https://twitter.com/NickAtNews/status/1300911702373019650
- https://twitter.com/NickAtNews/status/1300913839345672194
Ten seconds into the video, in the bottom-left corner, an officer sprays a protester who is walking backwards with his arms raised (presumably with mace or pepper spray).
tags: protester, spray
id: wi-madison-1
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A group of protesters are standing on a road paved over for pedestrian-only traffic. The protesters have their hands up. Police approach and pepper spray the protesters.
The journalist filming is told he is not allowed to remain, despite identifying himself as press.
tags: pepper-spray, journalist, protester
id: wi-madison-2
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- https://www.tiktok.com/@michelle_but_not_obama/video/6833371052198857990
- https://twitter.com/shadow_roses1/status/1268246561798205442
Police hold a line in Madison, Wisconsin. Several protesters mill about nearby. One stands near police, speaking into a megaphone. An officer pepper sprays this protester.
tags: protester, pepper-spray, spray
id: wi-madison-3
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Around 1 AM on August 25th, police arrest a protester in a park. Other protesters approach the police line, appearing to stop several feet away. Police then pepper spray these protesters. Police then deployed tear gas shortly after.
tags: protester, arrest, pepper-spray, spray, tear-gas
id: wi-madison-4
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- https://twitter.com/bethabeyer/status/1298145824971673603
- https://twitter.com/bethabeyer/status/1298146285929758720
A homeless bystander sleeping on the street is caught in tear gas. Protesters wake him up and get him out of the area.
tags: bystander, homeless, tear-gas
id: wi-madison-5
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Protesters were congregating at the intersection of North 6th Street and McKinley Avenue. A group of officers on bikes rode up to them. Two officers on bikes collided with one another; one officer fell to the ground. Officers then tackled a protester (for reasons unknown) and attempted to take him into custody, with one officer placing a knee on his neck or head for one or two minutes. No officers intervened to get the knee off the man's neck; police formed a barrier to screen the arrest from other protesters and people filming. At the same time, police arrested one other man and hit a woman in the collarbone -- again, for reasons unknown. The man who had an officer's knee on his neck has sued.
tags: arrest, bike, knee, knee-on-neck, protester, strike, tackle
id: wi-milwaukee-1
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- http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/milwaukee-common-council-calls-investigation-use-knee-police-restrain-protestor/
- https://medium.com/@danbarrett/north-6th-street-and-mckinley-avenue-milwaukee-wisconsin-7-15-to-7-28-p-m-part-1-89ad38a5532f
- Police are reviewing the use of force
- Coverage of the lawsuit
- Location via Google Street View
Protesters had congregated near the intersection of North 6th Street and McKinley Avenue. Over the course of about an hour, police moved forward, dispersing the protesters using tear gas and rubber bullets, first pushing the protesters a block and a half then pushing them off of North 6th Street entirely. Video shows police shooting rubber bullets at protesters on a sidewalk and firing gas canisters, in large number, at a small group of peaceful protesters. (At least some tear gas was used, but it is unclear how much. Police say they also used smoke canisters.)
Police claim they used force to disperse the crowd after rocks and glass were thrown at them. Police also said at the time that "Molotov cocktails" were thrown at them. They later walked that statement back to say that one Molotov Cocktail was thrown. They say it did not ignite. Media and protesters present say they saw water bottles being thrown, but not glass, rocks, or a Molotov cocktail. Video released by police clearly shows something being thrown at police, but doesn't show what it was. Police also produced a picture of a crushed water bottle and what looks like a water pump and implied it was the remnants of a Molotov cocktail.
NOTE: this incident immediately follows wi-milwaukee-1. Because the misconduct involved is substantially different, it has been given its own incident.
tags: gas, protester, rubber-bullet, shoot, tear-gas
id: wi-milwaukee-2
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- Instagram post with assorted photos, videos, and description
- Police firing rubber bullets at peaceful protesters on a sidewalk
- Police tear-gassing peaceful protesters in a street
- Video of police tear gassing protesters. Starts just after police push protesters back from the intersection of McKinley and 6th.
- Reddit video of police talking to a person filming -- time unclear, but suspected to be between WI-Milwaukee-1 and WI-Milwaukee-2
- Police tweet about "Molotov Cocktails"
- Police tweet about "a Molotov Cocktail," with photos
- https://www.wuwm.com/post/tuesday-protests-milwaukee-police-say-molotov-cocktail-thrown-officers-didnt-ignite#stream/0
- Location of rubber bullets, via Google Street View
- Location of tear gas, via Google Street View
- Location of Reddit video, via Google Street View
Footage shows protesters peacefully marching across Hoan Bridge. Protesters are met by a line of police who force them back across the bridge. During this encounter, a scuffle breaks out - it is unclear what caused it. Police respond by shoving protesters and throwing smoke bombs. 2 protesters are arrested for unknown reasons. Police also fire less lethal munitions, hitting at least one person in the leg - seen in the second link.
tags: gas, protester, projectile, shoot, arrest
id: wi-milwaukee-3
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