The president is not expected to visit the family of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by Wisconsin police last month.
President Trump is set to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, despite objections from local leaders who have raised concerns that the president’s appearance may further escalate tensions in the city, which has been roiled by the shooting of a Black man by police and the deaths of two people by a suspected vigilante shooter at a subsequent demonstration. Mr. Trump is not scheduled to meet with the family of, the man shot in the back seven times by a Wisconsin police officer on August 23. The 29-year-old father of six remains hospitalized and is paralyzed from his injuries, his family lawyers have said. The president claimed on Monday that he is not visiting Blake’s family because they wanted to involve their legal team, which he said was « inappropriate. » « I may at some point do that, but they did have a lawyer that wanted to be on the phone and I said no. That’s inappropriate, but I did just give my best regards, » Mr. Trump told reporters. Instead, the president plans to survey property damaged in the protests and visit an « emergency operations center » at a local high school, according to the White House.
