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This Is Rusten Sheskey, The Kenosha Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake 7 Times

Sheskey described his job as a ‘customer service’ role one year before his shooting of Jacob Blake reignited nationwide protests

Aug 30 - KENOSHA, Wis. — A year before his shooting of a Black man reignited nationwide racial justice protests, local police officer Rusten Sheskey gave a lighthearted interview to the Kenosha News about his life as a bicycle cop.

He discussed his love of bicycle racing and described his job as a “customer service” role, with citizens footing the bill for a helpful police force.

“It’s a huge responsibility, and I really like trying to help the people,” Sheskey said. “We may not be able to make a situation right, or better, but we can maybe make it a little easier for them to handle during that time”...     more

Kenosha Police officer Rusten Sheskey poses for a photo in 2019 in Wisconsin. State authorities identified Sheskey, a seven-year veteran of the Kenosha Police Department, as the officer who shot Jacob Blake. (John Sloca/The Kenosha News via AP)

ABC News: DHS withheld intelligence bulletin warning about Russian misinformation attack on Biden's mental health

Sep. 3. (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security in July withheld an intelligence bulletin warning of a Russian plot to spread misinformation regarding Joe Biden's mental health, according to a report from ABC News on Wednesday.

In a draft of the bulletin obtained by the network and confirmed by DHS titled "Russia Likely to Denigrate Health of US Candidates to Influence 2020 Election," analysts said with "high confidence" that "Russian malign influence actors are likely to continue denigrating presidential candidates through allegations of poor mental or physical health to influence the outcome of the 2020 election," according to ABC News. The bulletin, which was produced by the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), also raised efforts by China and Iran to criticize President Donald Trump, the network reported.

After news of the bulletin was published, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said his department was working to revise the intelligence report."The report that you reference was at the end of the day a very poorly written report," Wolf said in a Fox News interview. "When I talked to career officials in I&A, in the office that produced the report, they also had questions about it. They're hard at work on rewriting that report, putting it in some better context and I hope to see that report out soon"...     more

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WATCH: Kenosha Police caught on tape attacking documentary filmmaker — after allegedly groping her breast

Sep. 2 - President Donald Trump visited Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday. He was not there to pray with the family of Jacob Blake, who has been paralyzed after being shot in the back by police. Nor was he there to mourn the victims who allegedly murdered by one of his supporters.
Instead, Trump went to Kenosha to complain about people protesting police injustice.

Trump energized two members of the right-wing group the Proud Boys, whose members have been charged with violence in multiple states. Following his visit, two members of the Proud Boys confronted Black Lives Matter protesters, as was caught on tape by New York Times reporter Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs.    

Bogel-Burroughs captured video of a white police officer gassing Black documentary filmmaker Ashley Dorelus, who claimed the officer touched her breast....     more

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VIDEO: As the #Kenosha police were protecting the two "Proud Boys" members from protesters, one officer sprayed Ashley Dorelus, a documentary filmmaker, in the face with a chemical agent.

She told me she swatted his hand because he touched her breast as he was pushing her away. pic.twitter.com/uaWco92y3t

— Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs (@NickAtNews) September 1, 2020

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President Trump’s visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin today has drawn mixed reactions across the city, in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

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Jacob S. Blake is a 29-year-old African American[2] man who was shot and seriously injured by police on August 23, 2020. During an arrest, police officer Rusten Sheskey shot seven times[3][4] at his back, with four shots hitting Blake.[5][6] The incident occurred in Kenosha, Wisconsin.[1][7][8][9] During the encounter, Blake was tasered and scuffled with officers.[10] He was shot as he opened the driver's door to his SUV and leaned in.[11] Three of Blake's sons were in the backseat.[12][13][14]

The police shooting was followed by protests, which included rallies, marches, property damage, arson, and clashes with police. Two protesters were also fatally shot in a confrontation with an armed civilian. Blake's name was invoked in protests in other cities as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has seen a resurgence in the wake of high-profile killings by police officers in 2020.[13]   source from Wikipedia

Trump refused meeting Jacob Blake’s family because they wanted lawyer present

Aug. 31 - WASHINGTON — President Trump says he turned down a meeting with Jacob Blake’s family during his visit to Wisconsin on Tuesday because they wanted a lawyer present, something he said was “inappropriate.”
During a Monday evening briefing at the White House, Trump also claimed he spoke to the family’s pastor but a confused Jacob Blake Sr. told CNN immediately afterward that they didn’t have one.
“I thought it would be better not to do anything where there are lawyers involved,” Trump told reporters.
“They wanted me to speak but they wanted to have lawyers involved. I thought it was inappropriate so I didn’t do that,” he continued.
“They did have a lawyer that wanted to be on the phone and I said, ‘No, that’s inappropriate,’ but I just gave my best regards,” he said.
Trump is yet to make contact with Blake’s family more than a week after he was shot in the back by a white police officer in front of his three young sons in Kenosha, Wisconsin — sparking a fresh round of protests across the country.
The president will visit Kenosha on Wednesday to tour damaged businesses and thank local law enforcement for squashing protests, defying the wishes of the state’s governor who asked Trump to stay away, but will not meet with Blake’s family...     more

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With Looming China Threat, US, India Could Ink ‘Big Deals’ Ahead Of 2020 Presidential Elections

As tensions continue to mount between India and China, the United States continues to tighten the noose around Beijing. In view of strengthening diplomatic and military ties, New Delhi and Washington are set to hold their first 2+2 format dialogue between foreign and defense ministries in September.

Aug. 25 - ...Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Programme at the Wilson Center in Washington, says “It’s certainly the right time to convene the next 2+2 session… To be sure, the upcoming US election may put a damper on the meeting, given that this may be the last time India sees the Trump administration on the other side of the table in the 2+2.”

The American side has also confirmed that BECA is indeed in the discussions list. “There’s much that could be on the agenda — how to make progress on finalizing BECA, the last remaining foundational agreement, what can be done with the Quad, how to scale up technology transfers and intelligence sharing, and so on”, added Kugelman.

The global scenario compared to last year has changed, and several significant changes like the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S.-China Trade War, the tensions in the South China Sea, Beijing’s troubled borders, and China’s support to Iran has created overt tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Pompeo and Esper both have criticized China for the ongoing faceoff at the LAC while US President Donald Trump has even offered to mediate between the two...      source

https://eurasiantimes.com/with-looming-china-threat-us-india-could-ink-big-deals-ahead-of-2020-presidential-elections/

China continues military drills in South China Sea region amid rising tension with US

Aug. 30, BEIJING - The Chinese army has launched two sets of military drills in waters off the country's east coast as tensions continue to rise in the South China Sea amid US military presence in the region.

Shanghai-based military expert Ni Lexiong was quoted as saying by South China Morning Post that the drills in the Bohai and Yellow seas had the practical purpose of simulating both wartime attack and defence, should there be a conflict to unify Taiwan by force.

"Different scenarios, with a strong enemy or a weak enemy, need to be practised in drills," Ni said.

Terming the recent drills as "routine training", Diao Daming, an associate professor at Renmin University's National Academy of Development and Strategy, told state broadcaster China Central Television that "the exercises were meant to boost public confidence and intimidate the US and Taiwan."     source

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Trump administration ends election security briefings

Aug. 9 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended all election security briefings to Congress just weeks before Americans cast their ballots for president, raising concern among lawmakers about the public’s right to know about foreign interference in the election...

In his letter to the committees, Ratcliffe wrote: “I believe this approach helps ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that the information ODNI provides the Congress in support of your oversight responsibilities on elections security, foreign malign influence, and election interference is not misunderstood nor politicized.”

Democrats expressed outrage at the decision by Ratcliffe, who directs the office overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies.
“This is a shocking abdication of its lawful responsibility to keep the Congress currently informed, and a betrayal of the public’s right to know how foreign powers are trying to subvert our democracy,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrat who chairs the House’s intelligence committee, said in a joint statement.

“This intelligence belongs to the American people, not the agencies which are its custodian. And the American people have both the right and the need to know that another nation, Russia, is trying to help decide who their president should be,” they said.

Officials said this month that they have assessed that Russia is working to denigrate President Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden. They have also said China prefers to see Trump lose and regards the president as unpredictable, but officials have not detailed specific steps Beijing had already taken to interfere in the election.     source

Trump is pursuing a narrative of 'lawlessness on the streets'

Aug. 28 - US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says “the battle lines” for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign were made abundantly clear” in the President's lengthy address to the Republican National Convention. Mr Jackman told Sky News one line of attack was his appeal to the Republican base, while the other was “going after the law and order element”. “That is portraying the sense of an America that is descending into chaos and into crisis and that Trump stands between further degradation of that sort and people he’d like to vote for him,” he said. “There is still time for a politician and a performer like Donald Trump to make up that gap in the polls and there’s a lot of real world events to happen that may validate frankly the narrative that Trump is running at the moment about lawlessness on the streets of the United States. “Fear is a powerful motivator in politics and particularly … in a system where voting is not compulsory, something to motivate people.”   Read source by click on "WATCH INTERVIEW"