-Black lives, they matter now! -Black lives, they matter now!
-Black lives, they matter now! -Black lives --
-I arrived in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
on August 25th for the third night
of protesting after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, Jr.
There were about a thousand people peacefully protesting.
-We've been peaceful.
Even when we stopped the police car, we did it with peace.
-Amen. -It wasn't until the protestors
began trying to knock down the fence
and the shooting off fireworks and throwing water bottles
and rocks over the fence at police officers
that you really saw the police officers
come out of the building
and form several lines behind the fence.
-Please. Come on, y'all.
Come on, baby. This ain't peaceful.
-A kind of back and forth continued for
the next 30 minutes or so,
with the police deploying pepper-ball bullets
and tear gas to push the protestors back a little bit.
-Park is closed.
Ordered to disperse. Do it now.
-Around 9:20, a military vehicle entered the park
and started to push protestors
away from the fence and out of the park.
At this point, a line of police officers
came out in front of the gate
and slowly advanced and dispersing the protestors
out into the neighboring streets.
At a gas station a few blocks away from the courthouse,
an argument broke out amongst a group of heavily
armed young men and protestors.
Earlier in the evening, I had a chance
to talk to the armed men,
and they described themselves as a self-made militia.
They've come together over Instagram
to protect protestors and property.
-But you are. But you are.
Why do you have a gun?
-Among the self-described militia was a 17-year-old
with a green shirt and a long rifle.
We would later learn his name is Kyle Rittenhouse.
-Like, you know how you look. -A short time
after this argument, I heard several gunshots
fired about a block away from the gas station.
[Gunshots]
Cellphone video shows someone who appears to be Rittenhouse
hurrying away with a gun
while a man is left lying on the ground
with what looks like a gunshot wound to the head.
I saw the same person run past me with two
or three men chasing him.
He stumbled and fell to the ground
before moving into a seating position
and aiming his rifle at the men pursuing him.
[Gunshot] [Gunshots]
As he began firing, I ran for cover,
and when I could see the street again,
two men were laying on the ground.
One of them was not moving.
-He was not breathing.
His eyes were rolled back in his head.
-Are you okay? -Hey!
I'm stuck. -Are you okay?
Hey. -He looked bad.
They were almost stripping him
and didn't see no shots anywhere,
so trying to full the pulse on his neck,
he did not have no pulse, so I just, like,
"Hey, roll him over" and started doing CPR
'cause that's the only thing I could think of doing.
-And did you get a response on that?
-No.
[Indistinct shouting] -Stay right there.
-Hey!
-I never run towards trouble, but Jesus, that guy --
he looked like he needed help. -We have medics.
We have medics.
-We're still piecing together the events of the night,
but in the end, three people were shot and two
have since died from the shooting.
-Hey, wait! Wait!
-Okay, we got to go.
We got to go.
[Indistinct shouting]