Officers just came out of the courthouse (which now has a fence around it). The crowd is angry
Someone in the crowd just launched a firecracker at officers guarding the courthouse (about halfway in). Officers are responding with some crowd control munitions.
Officers are quicker to deploy crowd control munitions in Kenosha than other cities I’ve been to. The officer using the loud speaker yelled something about the leaf blower, but I couldn’t quite make it out.
Officers just moved right up to the fence and put their riot shields up
Armored vehicle #1 has arrived
Backup is here (looks to be from a different area). The crowd is NOT happy, launching all sorts of things at the vehicle
The crowd is trying to form a barrier. We’ve seen this in other cities
Two people stand in front of the vehicle to prevent it from passing
Officers march in front of the courthouse as more people in the crowd try to stop a vehicle from passing. After this video, one person knocked a light out on the vehicle.
One of the vehicles just bulldozed straight through the garbage bin. Officers are beginning to march in an effort to clear the park, which is now closed
A huge line of officers, along with vehicles, push the crowd out of the park. Now there’s a standoff of sorts, with people on the side of the road and and four armored vehicles in the streets.
A few people with guns just arrived. They’re now strategizing with some people in the crowd about formations. One just said, “we’ll shoot our way out if we have to.”

“Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that,” someone responded.
The group is not backing down
Officers are coming up from the side and just started to deploy crowd control munitions, pushing the group further back down the street in Kenosha
People in the crowd are launching bricks and officers are deploying crowd control munitions. It’s a battle out here
Multiple armed men are on the roof of one of the car lots that was burned in Kenosha, WI:
(And woman)

Some have come down from the roof. @ElijahSchaffer spoke to one, who said the business is a friend’s and they’re protecting it.

They also just offered to help anyone injured from the crowd. One said he is an EMT
Took a nice lil hit earlier🤟
Fights are breaking out between protesters, many of whom have guns
I don’t entirely know what’s going on but this one guy in particular with a gun looks very jumpy and I feel like that’s not a good combo? Other people are reminding him about “muzzle control”
A tire fire is going strong at a car lot across the street from the now burned down furniture store in Kenosha
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