MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Multiple Black Lives Matter Protesters Shot in Wisconsin; Post Reports "A Young White Man Carrying An AR-15-Style Rifle Began Running North...As People Chased [Him]...Another Round of Rapid-Fire Shots Rang Out and Two More People Fell" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/26/jacob-blake-kenosha-police-protests/

VIDEO/ This video may be disturbing, but it's important to have a picture of what's happening in Wisconsin. I want to underscore that every person is innocent until proven guilty—and we do not yet know who did what or why or when or how in this situation.

WARNING/ Again, that video is very upsetting. Do not watch it unless you are prepared to witness violence.

PS/ The problem with live video is that we can't see what happens before or after the video. We don't know who the shooter or shooters are; their motivations; or any of the ex ante/ex post context. Even the weapons used are unclear. So we need information now—not heated rhetoric.

VIDEO2/ Here's a longer version of the video. Again, warning: it's disturbing. Ignore the use of the word "riots" in the video description—I don't endorse any such descriptors to describe a chaotic situation I've got no visibility on except in brief clips.

VIDEO3/ Here's a different video, from a different angle, of the same event. Again, warning: it's disturbing. Do not watch unless you are up for it. https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1298502384654651392

PS2/ I am not posting the @Julio_Rosas11 video; it is too violent. Journalists or others looking for more (new) video can check his feed.

PS3/ I've said before, and will say again, that I abhor violence at protests. There's no doubt that violence occurred and is occurring in Kenosha. There's no doubt that some on-scene aren't peaceful—and that some on-scene who are armed are pro-BLM libertarians, not right wingers.

PS4/ I referred to those in the video as "peaceful" because it's a group of people standing on an empty street in a residential neighborhood with no sign of violence or arson anywhere. I did not say that there's no one violent in Kenosha tonight. There are *surely* some rioters.

PS5/ Don't post video of libertarians and say the shooter was with them unless you can identify the shooter in the group. And a victim is "peaceful" if not engaged in violence/self-defense while being shot. What he did earlier—if anything—doesn't legally/morally excuse homicide.

PS6/ It is amazing how many people are on this thread having just watched a video in which people trying to apprehend a shooter get shot themselves justify the shooting by saying that at some prior point in the evening some of the people on that street may have been rioting. JFC.

PS7/ If I say a shooting victim may have been a "peaceful protester," it means they were present at a protest, invested in the protest, and didn't commit violence related to them getting shot. It's not a statement on what they or others may've done at some other time/space today.

PS8/ If your crazy belief is that a man going to a protest and engaging in any inappropriate conduct at the protest legitimizes him being shot while standing in a residential neighborhood hours later, say so.

Don't try to muddle an attempted homicide and prior events of the day.

PS9/ I'm angry about the small number of the 2,000+ BLM protest that have involved violence—and angry in part because those doing the violence are usually not the protesters. But when an attempted homicide occurs, the events of *that moment* are what law enforcement will look at.

PS10/ So if you're on my feed right now—or any Twitter feed right now—and you're watching video of multiple attempted homicides and all you can talk about is events that occurred earlier in the day at other locations, you've a serious problem with rule of law and law enforcement.

VIDEO4/ I'm posting this in the hope that media and law enforcement will see it. It appears to be the video of the initial shooting, with the same suspect from the other videos. And he can be heard confessing to the shooting. THIS IS VERY DISTURBING VIDEO. https://twitter.com/Hannah09771366/status/1298513417561616386?s=19

PS11/ You can clearly see—in the video above—the man who appears to be the same armed suspect from all the other videos, though here he is standing with an AR-style gun above a (headshot) shooting victim. He thereafter runs off and says into his cell phone, "I just shot someone!"

PS12/ I'm speechless at this point. I've now seen so many videos of this same alleged shooter being treated by law enforcement as though he's a known quantity. He is—apparently—an *armed civilian who looks to have no idea what he's doing*. How is he a known quantity to *anyone*?

PS13/ Yes, I agree with those saying that a better audio analysis might reveal that what the shooter said was actually far worse than I surmised on my own listen. He may well have said, "I just killed somebody."

PS14/ I sincerely hope local law enforcement can disentangle this somehow—explaining whether this man was with an armed group or not, whether he was known to law enforcement or not, whether he was connected to a business or not. This whole thing is just devastating and harrowing.

PS15/ My last tweet on this incident: there'll be a lot of understandable questions now—based on the many videos I saw tonight—about *if* (we just don't know) law enforcement mishandled armed civilians operating in Kenosha.

America, we have to do so much better than all of this.