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NNadir

(33,368 posts)
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 09:26 PM Aug 2020

For anyone who knows the area, what is Kenosha like, and why do they have a racist police chief?

I'm just curious as to what kind of city and city government would have a cop who thinks it's OK for a cop to shoot an unarmed black man seven times in the back while letting a white kid who openly shot and killed people walk?

Is the town generally racist?

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LakeArenal

(28,738 posts)
1. I think so.
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 09:30 PM
Aug 2020

WI is basically a 47%-47% state.
Local politics are gerrymandered to favor Republicans. So the red neck level is very high.

NNadir

(33,368 posts)
5. Well, I guess that says it all. Ryan was engineer on the train that was flying into...
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 09:42 PM
Aug 2020

...the abyss of blank racism in the Republican party.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
3. I don't, but his "it's all their own fault" talk, and his rather sympathetic references to "the boy"
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 09:35 PM
Aug 2020

make me think if he's not racist, he's attracted to vigilantes.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,700 posts)
4. I'm in Chicago, but haven't been in Kenosha for quite some time.
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 09:38 PM
Aug 2020

But long term, my impression of it has long been that it's pretty run down and on the sad side.

I don't know anything about the top cop other than he seems to be a real piece of work.

brush

(53,480 posts)
6. The sheriff there said a couple of years ago that it's time to warehouse black men.
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:45 PM
Aug 2020

The sheriff is the other uniformed officer on the podium with the police chief. I imagine they both have similar views.

"Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth, now in the spotlight amid civil unrest in Wisconsin, previously called five Black people arrested for felony shoplifting “trash” who should be locked in a “warehouse.”

“Let’s put them away. At some point we have to stop being politically correct. And I don’t care what race, I don’t care how old they are, if there’s a threshold that they cross, these people have to be warehoused, no recreational time.”


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-kenosha-county-sheriff-called-black-suspects-trash-to-be-warehoused-20200827-3cwuwimsjnd2xjcjobdkh6a3yu-story.html

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
8. County Sheriff is different than the city Chief of Police
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:55 PM
Aug 2020

In this case, they both happen to be total shitheels.

Blecht

(3,803 posts)
7. It's always been racist
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:53 PM
Aug 2020

I grew up there. Full of division -- very tribal. White vs. black, Italian vs. Polish, WASPs hating everybody.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
13. Remember the history of Wisconsin's Governor From Hell, Scott Walker? Smug reTHUGS
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 11:20 PM
Aug 2020

abound in Wisconsin...

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