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in the past hour, police have arrested a 17—year—old in the neighbouring state of illinois. in the past few minutes, kenosha's mayorjohn antaramian has condemned the violence, calling it unacceptable in his community. a community is only as strong as its weakest neighbourhood. as a country, we are only as strong as the weakest city. days of unrest have followed the police shooting ofjacob blake. his family have called for calm. melania trump strikes a compassionate tone and calls
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for "racial unity" at the republican convention. anthony zurcher tells us what to expect when mike pence takes the stage tonight. welcome. in the past two hours, a court in wisconsin has announced that a 17—year—old has been arrested and charged with first degree homicide over a shooting in kenosha on tuesday night. the court said the teenager was arrested in the neighbouring state of illinois and he has been charged with first—degree intentional homicide in kenosha. kenosha officials have been giving a press conference in the last hour. here's the mayor. there are a lot of very good people in this community. and what is happening to them is wrong. people have differences of opinion.
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we have different concepts of how things should be done — those are all fine. but violence in the community is not acceptable. violence to property, violence to people — absolutely unacceptable. and it's up to us to make sure that that does not continue. the kenosha county sheriff has brought the curfew forward, an justified the use of tear gas on protesters. it was something we had to do. we had to disperse the crowd and get them moving out. the longer we let them go, the longer we let them build, the more dangerous the situation became. tonight, we're changing the curfew to 7pm. we will gladly support all the peaceful protests that are really throughout kenosha county up until7pm. and after that, we ask everybody to go home. aleem maqbool takes us through what happened in kenosha on tuesday. just a note, some viewers may
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find it distressing. tensions on the streets here it m that these are is barely believable that these are playing out in a small city scenes playing out in a small city in america's midwest. and there's a new dimension to the chaos. as well as the confrontation between protesters and security forces, the fireworks in the tear gas, there are now armed civilians saying they are protecting property from getting damaged. he shot him! mobile phone footage appears to catch the moment one man with a rifle... shot him, man. shot protesters. he later zooms in on someone lying motionless on the ground as others run to help. in distressing video appears to show a
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similar incident close to a patchell station — again, a protester is gunned down. —— patchell. what
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