Kenosha's latest media briefing begins, minus one key participant: Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis, who declined to appear after an extensive @js_newswatch report alleging his officers coordinated with militia members to endanger protesters.

Kenosha mayor thanks all the people who gathered this weekend to paint and liven up damaged property. Kenosha county exec makes similar remarks, saying it's touching.

Property damage is still the primary lens through which both seem to view this who ordeal.

Something actionable, maybe: Kenosha County Exec says body cameras for police will be in next year's budget. Unclear whether departmental policy would mandate they use them, though.

Kenosha Sheriff David Beck, who last week dubiously claimed that he hadn't seen video of the Jacob Blake shooting, says he finally did this weekend.

"I still don't have a comment on it," he says. Then he comments on it, saying he's heard a lot of things that aren't accurate.

Wisconsin's National Guard rep, asked about Trump's comments sending National Guard to state, clarifies that it is governors who direct the guard, not the president.

He has been by far the most transparent, informed and seemingly competent presence at these briefings.

Kenosha mayor asked if the president should be coming to Kenosha.

"I felt his timing was wrong ... We have a community that is in the process of trying to heal."

"It would have been nice if he waited, but it is what it is."

Amid the Jacob Blake shooting and reports that Kenosha police coordinated with militia to endanger protesters last week, Kenosha's mayor is asked if he believes Kenosha police are helping combat systemic racism.

"I think law enforcement does a very good job in our community."

Kenosha Sheriff David Beck asked if president should visit tomorrow.

"Some thing he should and some think he shouldn't. For me to give my opinion on that doesn't matter."

He does say it makes more work for his department.

Kenosha Sheriff David Beck, pressed on odd claims about not watching the Jacob Blake shooting video, asked why he decided to finally watch the video this weekend.

"Because a young lady asked me if I've seen it, and I watched it."

Why the delay?

"I'm not an investigator."

David Beck is done taking questions.

The press was off its game today, and seemed to miss the forest for the trees. Not a single question about new @js_newswatch report suggesting that Kenosha police officers coordinated with militia members to entrap protesters last week.

Kenosha is a hydra of a story, and some of its ugliest heads — Kenosha police's complicity in militia violence Tuesday, Kyle Rittenhouse's mother's involvement — are being overshadowed by Trump's visit.

Press obsessed with trying to pin down officials' positions on Trump's visit