WASHINGTON, Sept 1 — Shootings that left three dead at protests against police brutality have stoked fears of rising violence as a deeply divided US heads into elections amid economic collapse, a deadly pandemic and the worst social upheaval since the 1960s. President Donald Trump, hoping to...
Tuesday, 01 Sep 2020 12:33 PM MYT
President Donald Trump, hoping to secure a second term in November despite the crisis, heads today to Kenosha, the Wisconsin town which descended into violence last week after police shot a young black father seven times in the back. Local white people “are in fear, they look for a reason to defend themselves and we have people over here [the militias] looking for a reason to attack,” said Bennett, a social worker and former member of the military who said he no longer leaves his house without a bulletproof jacket and a pistol in his belt.
Between now and the election, “certainly there could be more shootings,” said Spencer Sunshine, who researches far-right groups in the United States.Extremist groups have always existed in the United States, said Sunshine, an independent expert. After Trump's election, radical right-wing and left-wing groups regularly faced off in Seattle, also in Oregon, as well as in Portland.
“With the 2020 presidential election fast approaching, the prospect that extremists might resort to political violence is a very real one,” it said.
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