Author: Correspondent

A U-Haul truck containing around $1,000 worth of food, water, medical supplies, COVID-19 masks, and other humanitarian aid was sent on August 26 from Zao MKE Church in Milwaukee to aid peaceful protestors in Kenosha. It was stopped by police, all supplies were confiscated, and the driver was detained. Kenosha police said that an investigation into the situation was underway, but offered few details about what prompted the seizure by unmarked and unidentifiable law enforcement agents. An early report from police acknowledged that water and supplies were in the truck, but added that it also contained materials consistent with...

Best known for his “Hulk” character in Marvel’s “The Avengers” series, actor Mark Ruffalo joined activists in his hometown of Kenosha via Instagram’s IGTV to back their social justice campaign for Jacob Blake, a local African-American man who was shot seven times by police. The August 23 footage of Blake being shot from behind at close range by Kenosha police as he entered his car, where three of his children were waiting for him, sparked outrage and sweeping protests. Over the week that followed, three more people would be shot and two of them killed, as militia groups supported...

Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced on September 3 that Michael M. Karmo and Cody E. Smith of Missouri were charged by criminal complaint with illegal possession of firearms after being arrested on September 1 at a hotel in Pleasant Prairie. As alleged in the criminal complaint, on September 1, the Kenosha Police Department advised the FBI that a law enforcement agency in Iowa had received a tip that Karmo and an unidentified male were in possession of firearms and traveling from Missouri to Kenosha to to possibly “loot” and “pick people...