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Wisconsin Governor Deploys National Guard after Police Shooting of Black Man

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   Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is deploying the National Guard to the
   city of Kenosha to prevent violence after the police shooting of a
   Black man.

   Jacob Blake, 29, was shot in the back and seriously wounded Sunday
   evening as he leaned into a car while his three children were inside.

   Police were apparently responding to a domestic dispute, although
   circumstances surrounding the shooting are unclear.

   The race of the three police officers involved was not made public, but
   the shooting sparked a night of violence in Kenosha, a historically
   working-class city of about 100,000 people between the Midwestern
   cities of Chicago and Milwaukee.

   "While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain
   is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or
   injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law
   enforcement in our state or our country," said Evers, a Democrat.

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