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Trump’s promotion of armed militias risks stoking civil war | Trudy Rubin

The president describes all protesters for racial justice as evil, while encouraging vigilantes who attack them.

Kyle Rittenhouse, at left in backward cap, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wis., at around 11 p.m. Aug. 25, with another armed civilian Tuesday night. Less than an hour later, Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois, is accused of shooting three other people, killing two of them, with at least two of the shootings captured on video by onlookers showing Rittenhouse as the shooter. The incident took place after curfew in Kenosha less than 72 hours after demonstrations and riots broke out in the lakeside city following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Kyle Rittenhouse, at left in backward cap, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wis., at around 11 p.m. Aug. 25, with another armed civilian Tuesday night. Less than an hour later, Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois, is accused of shooting three other people, killing two of them, with at least two of the shootings captured on video by onlookers showing Rittenhouse as the shooter. The incident took place after curfew in Kenosha less than 72 hours after demonstrations and riots broke out in the lakeside city following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.Read moreADAM ROGAN The Journal Times / A
    by Trudy Rubin | Columnist
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