Trump should be charged for inciting vigilante violence against protesters and demonstrators.
The 17-year-old fervent Trump supporter and former police cadet—who attempted to enlist in the Marine Corps in January but was turned down—remains in custody in Illinois. He has been charged with five felonies, including first-degree intentional homicide for the death of 26-year-old Silver Lake resident Anthony Huber, first-degree reckless homicide for the death of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, of Kenosha, and attempted first-degree intentional homicide for the shooting of Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, of West Allis. Hs is also charged with two counts of recklessly endangering public safety.
The Kenosha murders are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to right-wing violence against the protests that have erupted throughout America since the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Critical data published in a recent article by the Huffington Post, which was collected by Alexander Reid Ross, a doctoral fellow at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right, revealed that the bulk of the violence committed at protests throughout the summer has been carried out by elements associated with the far-right, as opposed to protesters.
So far, there have been at least 497 instances of far-right actors and vigilantes confronting, assaulting and/or murdering protesters.Commenting on the scale of the violence instigated by far-right counterprotesters, Ross told the Huffington Post, “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.” So far Ross has confirmed 387 incidents of intimidation, 64 cases of simple assault, 38 vehicle attacks and nine instances of protesters being shot at, of whom six were injured and three killed.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/29/prot-a29.html
