Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers asks Donald Trump to 'reconsider' planned go to to Kenosha after Jacob Blake shooting

MILWAUKEE – President Donald Trump plans to go to Kenosha on Tuesday to meet with law enforcement and survey injury from a week of unrest in the Wisconsin city, according to a White House pool report.

No different details had been straight away handy about the visit, which was once announced Saturday night. The announcement comes a day after Trump addressed the Kenosha Police Department’s capturing of Jacob Blake for the first time.

But, on Sunday, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers sent a letter to Trump urging him to "reconsider" the visit. He said the previous week has been "particularly difficult" and neighborhood throughout the state are dealing with "extraordinary grief."

Evers said Kenosha is "exhausted and heartbroken with the division that has ripped apart their community," but is also working to rebuild.

"I, alongside with different community leaders who have reached out, are involved about what your presence will imply for Kenosha and our state," Evers wrote. "I am involved your presence will solely restrict our healing. I am concerned your presence will solely delay our work to overcome division and move forward together."

After a rally in New Hampshire on Friday, Trump stated of the shooting: “It was now not a true sight. I didn’t like the sight of it, certainly, and I think most people would agree with that,” in accordance to CNN.

Trump referenced Kenosha throughout the Republican National Convention but did now not make particular remarks about the capturing that left Blake, 29, paralyzed from the waist down after being shot seven times in the returned at point-blank vary by using Officer Rusten Sheskey on Aug. 23. 

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