Crews Cleanup Graffiti After Protests in Downtown LA Erupt for a 3rd Night

DTLA Jon Baird
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On another night of protests in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday, LAPD arrested nearly a dozen people, and Thursday morning, crews were painting over graffiti sprayed on the U.S. Bank Building. 

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered near the Hall of Justice to protest the police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin of Jacob Blake. 

At least 10 people were arrested during #demonstrations in downtown #LosAngeles last night. This morning, crews were painting over graffiti sprayed on the US Bank building. @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/tVnQ5ZIbE6

— Jon Baird (@KNXBaird) August 27, 2020

The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Wednesday identified the officer who shot Jacob Blake as Officer Rusten Sheskey. Hours later, the Department of Justice announced that the shooting, which led to three nights of violence in the state, is now under a federal civil rights investigation. 

Covering up the #graffiti after another night of protests in downtown #LosAngeles. Police arrested 10 people. @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/vcFVnlrO07

— Jon Baird (@KNXBaird) August 27, 2020

The state's DOJ said in a press release that officers from the Kenosha Police Department were dispatched to the area on Sunday after a caller reported that her boyfriend, who was not supposed to be on the premises, was present. 

In recent reporting from BuzzFeed, law enforcement enthusiast who was charged with the fatal shooting deaths of two in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests for Jacob Blake, was captured sitting in the front row of a Donald Trump rally in January. 

Only seven months later Kyle Howard Rittenhouse showed up with an AR-15 in an unofficial capacity and shot two people on the third night of Black Lives Matter protests over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake.