Trump wades into racial tensions with visit to Kenosha

Tuesday, 1 September 2020Newsdesk

Claiming the mantle of the law and order candidate, President Donald Trump is offering himself as the leader best positioned to keep Americans safe, a day after Democratic rival Joe Biden assailed him over the deadly protests that have sprung up on his watch. Trump is diving head-first into the latest eruption in the nation's reckoning over racial injustice with a trip Tuesday over the objections of local leaders to Kenosha, Wisconsin, which has been riven by protests since the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, seven times in the back by police.

New Delhi, 01 September 2020

As per news report of PTI, Trump has defended a teenage supporter accused of fatally shooting two men in Kenosha last week and accused the former vice president of siding with anarchists" and rioters. Wisconsin's Democratic governor, Tony Evers, who deployed the National Guard to quell demonstrations in response to the Blake shooting, pleaded with Trump to stay away for fear of straining tensions further. The White House said the president was expected to meet with law enforcement and tour property affected by recent riots."

Source -PTI