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National Guard reinforcements have been deployed to Kenosha, and FBI agents sent from Washington, after days of protests and the death on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday of two demonstrators, killed by a young gunman in this small town of Wisconsin.
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The protests that erupted Sunday evening, hours after a black man, Jacob Blake, was seriously injured during his arrest by a police officer who shot him seven times in the back, quickly turned into a riot. Vehicles and businesses were looted and torched, and protesters shouting anti-racist slogans clashed with police protecting the local court.
Gathered via the social network Facebook and other sites, groups of armed citizens traveled to Kenosha in the following days, under the pretext of protecting businesses from looters and arsonists.
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