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KENOSHA, WISCONSIN – AUGUST 24: A women holds a sign while standing in a used car lot with burned out cars after a night of unrest, on August 24, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The unrest stemmed\u00ac\u2020from an incident in which\u00ac\u2020police shot a Black man multiple times in the back as he entered the driver’s side door of a vehicle. (Photo by Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
By Brian Trusdell
\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n
One hundred seventy-five people have been arrested in the week of riots and protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that have erupted following a police shooting in the city of 100,000, the majority from outside the municipality’s borders.<\/p>\n
More than\u00a020 guns also have been confiscated<\/a>\u00a0as of 12:30 p.m. local time Sunday, according to a statement issued by the city’s police department, multiple outlets reported.<\/p>\n Law enforcement in the city located on the western shore of Lake Michigan about 30 miles south of Milwaukee and about 60 miles north of Chicago have arrested\u00a0102 people<\/a> from 44 different towns and cities outside Kenosha. Charges have ranged from curfew violations to “carrying concealed weapons, burglary, and possession of controlled substances,” police said.<\/p>\n “We are currently calculating damage estimates to businesses. Kenosha Police will continue to share information when it becomes available,” read the statement.<\/p>\n In the first two days of rioting following the shooting,\u00a034 fires were attributed<\/a>\u00a0to the rioting and 40 business were destroyed, Kenosha police said.<\/p>\n The mayhem followed the shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake by police, who were called to a residence Sunday for a report of a “domestic dispute” that involved a vehicle theft.<\/p>\n Police were aware Blake was wanted for on a warrant for felony sexual assault and was under a court order to not approach the home police were called to. The woman who placed the call later told police\u00a0Blake had sexually assaulted<\/a>\u00a0her in her home.<\/p>\n Cops were attempting to arrest Blake on the felony sexual assault warrant on the street when he refused to obey police commands. Police say he was armed with a knife and could not be subdued despite being\u00a0shot with a stun gun twice<\/a>.<\/p>\n