{"id":1678844,"date":"2022-10-07T22:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T02:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678844"},"modified":"2022-10-07T22:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T02:05:14","slug":"incitement-johnson-blames-deadly-kenosha-riots-on-barness-anti-police-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/incitement-johnson-blames-deadly-kenosha-riots-on-barness-anti-police-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Incitement: Johnson Blames Deadly Kenosha Riots On Barnes\u2019s Anti-Police Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fincitement-johnson-blames-deadly-kenosha-riots-on-barness-anti-police-rhetoric%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes sparred over crime issues during a debate on Friday night, with Johnson saying Barnes\u2019s anti-police rhetoric &#8220;incited&#8221; the deadly riots against law enforcement in Kenosha in 2020.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Johnson slammed Barnes, the state\u2019s lieutenant governor, for his response to the riots in Kenosha, which erupted after police officers shot and wounded Jacob Blake, a wanted domestic violence suspect who was armed with a knife in 2020. In the wake of Blake\u2019s shooting, anti-police activists flooded into Kenosha, burning buildings and engaging in violent scuffles that led to multiple deaths.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Crime has become a leading issue in the competitive Wisconsin Senate race, as Milwaukee\u2019s homicide rate has spiked by 20 percent since last year. Throughout the campaign, Barnes has been fighting to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/wisconsins-mandela-barnes-blames-false-police-endorsement-on-clerical-error\/\">distance<\/a> himself from perceptions he is anti-police and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/as-mandela-barnes-went-soft-on-crime-law-enforcement-left-him-in-the-dust\/\">soft on crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Instead of trying to settle things down,&#8221; said Johnson during the debate on Friday, &#8220;the lieutenant governor gave a press conference and said it felt like a vendetta was carried out [by the police] against one of our community members. He incited the riot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While Barnes accused police of misconduct at the time, subsequent investigations found no evidence that they acted inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This was not an accident,&#8221; said Barnes during a news conference after the shooting. &#8220;This wasn\u2019t bad police work.\u00a0 This felt like some sort of vendetta being taken out on a member of our community. The officer\u2019s deadly actions attempted to take a person\u2019s life in broad daylight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Barnes did not comment on his response to the riots during the debate. He said he believes the best way to combat rising crime is by &#8221; fully funding our schools&#8221; and &#8220;making sure there are good paying jobs in our communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Johnson and Barnes also debated mandatory minimum wages, climate change, and federal student loan relief. Barnes argued that Wisconsin should increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour, while Johnson said government-mandated wage minimums would lead to fewer available jobs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On climate change, Barnes said the United States needs to take stronger action to address climate issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes sparred over crime issues during a debate on Friday night, with Johnson saying Barnes\u2019s anti-police rhetoric \u201cincited\u201d the deadly riots against law enforcement in Kenosha in 2020.<br \/>\nThe post Incitement: Johnson Blames Deadly Kenosha Riots On Barnes\u2019s Anti-Police Rhetoric appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}