CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Kenosha police are still trying to figure out who shot three people following protests Tuesday night, and are asking anyone who may have video to provide it to investigators. Meanwhile, crews in Kenosha have been cleaning up Wednesday after a third night of protesting the police shooting Sunday of a 29-year-old black man, Jacob Blake.
Andrew Graf lives near Kenosha, in Pleasant Prairie. He and his wife Hannah walked around downtown Kenosha on Wednesday surveying the damage and litter left after Tuesday night's protest outside the county courthouse.
"It's really sad. I never would have thought that something so close to home would have happened like this. It feels like a war zone in all honesty," Hannah Graf said.
Andrew Graf said he has no problem at all when protesting is peaceful; but of the shooting that left two people dead and a third wounded, he said, "It's disheartening. Violence is never the answer. Violence should never be met with violence."
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According to video posted to social media, at least one shooter appeared to have been among a group of vigilantes who showed up to Kenosha on Tuesday night to protect people's property.
To that he said, "There's white shooters, there's white protesters out here, there's white folks destroying buildings. It should never be a race thing. As a Christian, it's matters of the heart to me. But, there's definitely racial inequality. It still exists," he said.
Another Kenosha area resident said he thought that the rioters were taking away from the real message of those who had been peacefully protesting.
"It's insane, man. It's crazy," said Jake Gerlach-Brooks.
Jake Gerlach-Brooks is head custodian of Ruether High School which is covered in graffiti, including a vulgarity against police. The school is across a park from the county courthouse where much of the protesting has been going on. He said those who choose violence broke school windows the first couple of nights, and then Tuesday night, a few blocks away, two people were killed.
"It's messed up that the rioters are taking away from the real movement, which I think like, is the whole Black Lives Matter movement. They're taking away from that, because they're destroying the city. It's kind of discrediting what's going on," he said.
