Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers made a plea for peace as protesters gathered outside the Kenosha County Courthouse while awaiting a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial.
Local authorities said they"recognize the anxiety" surrounding the trial, but are not issuing a curfew or road closures at this time.
"Our departments have worked together and made coordinated efforts over the last year to improve response capabilities to large scale events. We have also strengthened our existing relationships with State and Federal resources," the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department and Kenosha Police Department said in a joint statement Tuesday."At this time, we have no reason to facilitate road closures, enact curfews or ask our communities to modify their daily routines.
Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide and two felony counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety. The charges stem from the fatal shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and a shooting that left 27-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz wounded during riots that erupted in Kenosha last year over the police shooting ofThose gathering outside the courthouse have included members of Blake's family and Black Lives Matter activists, calling for justice for the three men shot, as well as Rittenhouse supporters -- among them Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a St.
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