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Governor declares emergency after police shooting of Blake

by Associated Press
| August 25, 2020 1:03 PM

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor declared a state of emergency Tuesday after some protesters vandalized businesses and set dozens of buildings on fire in a city where police shot a Black man multiple times, apparently in the back in view of his children.

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