Forty-four different cities: Majority of people arrested during Kenosha protests from out of town
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(Worthy News) – A majority of the people who were arrested last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, were from out of town.
The Kenosha Police Department said in a statement Sunday that officers arrested 175 people during a week of civil unrest that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake, and 102 of those people taken into custody listed addresses outside of Kenosha.
Arrest numbers include people from 44 different cities, the police department said. Sixty-nine people were arrested for curfew violations, and 34 more were arrested for curfew violations in addition to other charges “ranging from carrying concealed weapons, burglary and possession of controlled substances,” the department added. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]
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