{"id":1683472,"date":"2022-10-11T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683472"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:35:44","slug":"police-accuse-wisconsin-dem-governor-of-fueling-deadly-anti-cop-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-accuse-wisconsin-dem-governor-of-fueling-deadly-anti-cop-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Accuse Wisconsin Dem Governor of Fueling Deadly Anti-Cop Riot"},"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%2Fpolice-accuse-wisconsin-dem-governor-of-fueling-deadly-anti-cop-riot%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=1683472&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>Wisconsin\u2019s Democratic governor Tony Evers &#8220;fanned the flames&#8221; of the 2020 deadly Kenosha riot and &#8220;refused&#8221; to send aid for law enforcement, Kenosha police officers are claiming in a new Republican ad campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Michels, the Republican candidate running against Evers in the competitive governor\u2019s race, launched the seven-figure TV ad blitz on Tuesday, which will run statewide, his campaign told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The ad comes as Republicans have hammered Evers and the state\u2019s lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes\u2014who is running against Republican senator Ron Johnson\u2014over their crime policies and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/incitement-johnson-blames-barness-anti-police-rhetoric-for-deadly-kenosha-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> them of contributing to rising violence and lawlessness in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Kenosha law enforcement claim the Evers administration\u2019s anti-police comments fueled the violence that erupted in the city after the 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Kenosha burned, Tony Evers fanned the flames,&#8221; said one officer.<\/p>\n<p>Other officers, who were pictured standing in front of City of Kenosha police cars, added that Evers &#8220;blamed police&#8221; after the shooting, and they said, &#8220;When we needed help, he refused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Riots broke out in Kenosha in the summer of 2020 after police shot Blake, a man who was resisting arrest while armed with a knife. While the Evers administration suggested the shooting was the result of racism and police brutality, subsequent investigations found no evidence of police misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were shot and killed during the riots, and dozens of businesses were damaged or burned.<\/p>\n<p>Crime has become a major election issue in Wisconsin, with 61 percent of state voters saying they are &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about the issue and 27 percent saying they are &#8220;somewhat concerned,&#8221; according to a Marquette Law School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/news-center\/2022\/new-marquette-law-poll-of-wisconsin-voters-finds-johnson-and-evers-holding-slim-leads.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p>The homicide rate in Milwaukee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/article\/milwaukee-fourth-city-highest-homicide-rate-in-usa\/40735643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spiked<\/a> in 2022, marking the third year in a row of record-breaking murder cases in the city. Republicans have blamed soft-on-crime policies from the Evers administration, which promised to cut the prison population in half and has boasted about paroling large numbers of inmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin\u2019s Democratic governor Tony Evers \u201cfanned the flames\u201d of the 2020 deadly Kenosha riot and \u201crefused\u201d to send aid for law enforcement, Kenosha police officers are claiming in a new Republican ad campaign.<br \/>\nThe post Police Accuse Wisconsin Dem Governor of Fueling Deadly Anti-Cop Riot 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-1683472","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\/1683472","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=1683472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683472\/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=1683472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}