American leader Donald Trump will visit on Tuesday, September 1, the American city of Kenosha in Wisconsin, where mass protests took place after being wounded in the detention of African American Jacob Blake. This was announced by the press secretary of the White House Judd Deere.
According to him, Trump will visit the city and meet with local police officers, as well as assess the damage done to the city after the riots.
Earlier, the head of state said that the riots in Kenosha stopped after the dispatch of the National Guard forces there.
We will remind, in the city of Kenosha, riots broke out after a policeman during the arrest shot several times in the back of Jacob Blake on August 23, as a result of which the man was paralyzed from the waist down. The police used tear gas to disperse the crowd of outraged residents of the city.
On the night of August 26, a minor shot and killed two people during the riots. According to local media reports, he may have been part of a group of volunteers trying to protect property from looters. The young man was detained.