‘Total Carnage’ Kenosha Residents Express Their Frustration After Second Night of Rioting and Looting

Residents in Kenosha, Wisconsin woke up to a scene of what was described as “total carnage” by one property owner after a second night of riots following an officer-involved shooting that has left a man paralyzed.

"Total carnage, I just don't understand why something like this would happen" says Daniel Esposito, owner of 4 buildings that were vandalized and looted lastnight in #Kenosha pic.twitter.com/c9EfvN16ku

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) August 25, 2020

Another man described what he claimed was a “70-year-old man” who was “beat by mob last night in Kenosha trying to defend his business from being burned down.”

The business owner apparently suffered a “broken jaw, some stitches, a black eye” and had gone to the hospital but has since been released.

70-year-old man was beat by mob lastnight in #Kenosha , according to #wisconsin local, who says the man was trying to defend his business from being burned down. pic.twitter.com/HbIo9NRYsw

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) August 25, 2020

From Breitbart:

A Kenosha-area store owner surveyed the damage to his family’s business following the violent night of lawlessness in the city, telling reporters that he was “not prepared” for the “disaster” before him.

“What I see, I was not prepared for. I knew it was going to be a disaster but I didn’t know what a disaster looked like until I saw it,” he told reporters, gesturing to the severely damaged building behind him.

“It’s tough You know, this is a business that my parents started 40 years ago. Small out of their garage. It was a small business. [They] did it just to make a few extra dollars and eventually, it grew,” he said.

His parents, who purchased the building 31 years ago, are “very upset,” he continued, describing the emotionally draining situation.

“It’s emotionally hurtful, but we didn’t do anything to anybody. Why did we deserve it?” he asked:

"It's emotionally hurtful, we didn't do anything to anybody"

Says local store owner in #Kenosha whose office furniture stored was set ablaze by a mob lastnight. His parents opened the business 40 years ago and now is destroyed #Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/8tzVrTjbB3

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) August 25, 2020

Another business owner described her frustration after her business was vandalized, “This is disgraceful & it’s not going to solve any problems. Black lives matter, all lives matter, people, let’s get it together, let’s work together. We are in hard times, you are making this harder than it has to be.”

“This is disgraceful & it’s not going to solve any problems”

A frustrated business owner tells me outside her vandalized business

“We are in hard times, you are making this harder than it has to be”

This is the human collateral of the #KenoshaRiots the corporate media ignores pic.twitter.com/Qkc5Hm7FpP

— ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) August 25, 2020

From the Washington Post:

The fires not only destroyed local businesses — a cellphone store, a tattoo parlor, a furniture store, a Mexican grocery — but they also forced out residents who lived on the second floors of the nearly century-old brick buildings.

“We’re a poor neighborhood,” said Debbie, 69, who worked at the grocery and did not want to give her last name. “Some of us don’t make enough money, so now we’re trapped.”

“I don’t think people should destroy anything, but the cops need to work for their money,” said Brandel Gordon, 26, a Black resident of Kenosha who said he was once a victim of police brutality. “There needs to be social reform in this city.”

One local resident, while surveying the damage and looking shell-shocked, said he hadn’t “seen anything like this since the ’60s in Detroit.” He summed it up by saying, “somebody has to stop this nonsense.”

#Kenosha local reacts to businesses being vandalized and looted "somebody has to stop this non-sense" pic.twitter.com/OkxNdmGfw2

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) August 25, 2020