KENOSHA, Wisconsin (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Kenosha residents have mixed reactions to Sunday's shooting of Jacob Blake by police as well as the looting and unrest that followed.
As business owners were boarding up and damage from looting was being cleaned up, some locals came out to see the damage for themselves.
Michael Grady, who is African-American, is among those who say the unrest is justified and necessary.
"Nobody's listening. We've tried everything else peacefully, going to the Congress, legislators, whatever," Grady told WBBM Newsradio's Jim Gudas Tuesday. "No one's really taking the time to hear the African-American community."
But others in Kenosha say they don't understand how harming innocent businesses will help anything.
Blake's family on Tuesday urged people not to damage property or become violent. The family plans to file a lawsuit against the Kenosha Police Department, their legal representatives said.
They say Blake, a young father, is not expected to walk again after police officers fired several rounds into his back Sunday. Video of the incident quickly went viral and became the latest controversial police shooting of an African American.
"Please, let's begin to pray for healing for our nation," Blake's mother, Julia Jackson, said at a news conference.
