Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is urging President Donald Trump not to visit Kenosha this week.
In a Sunday letter to Trump, Evers wrote, "I write today to respectfully ask you to reconsider" plans to visit the Wisconsin city, which has been shaken by unrest since a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake one week ago.
"This past week has been particularly difficult. Kenosha and communities across Wisconsin are enduring extraordinary grief, grappling with a Black man being shot seven times and the loss of two additional lives on Tuesday night at the hands of an out-of-state armed militant," Evers wrote. "When I visited Kenosha last week, what I saw was a community working to deal with the trauma and pain of these events and extreme loss."
He added Kenosha residents are "exhausted and heartbroken with the division that has ripped apart their community," but that they are working to rebuild.
Evers warned that Trump's visit could hurt rather than help.
"I, along with other community leaders who have reached out, are concerned about what your presence will mean for Kenosha and our state," he wrote. "I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together."
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul echoed Evers' warnings, tweeting Sunday that Trump "should rethink his plans and give Kenosha residents space to heal."
"Instead of thinking about what’s best for Donald Trump’s campaign, he and his advisors — for once — need to think about what’s best for the people he was elected to represent and not come to Kenosha this week," Kaul tweeted. "A president should be coming to Kenosha—to help people, to listen, to condemn violence and vigilantism, and to lead. But we know that isn’t Donald Trump."
Evers' letter came one day after the White House announced Trump's plans to visit Kenosha on Tuesday.
Trump previously referenced Kenosha during the Republican National Convention, but did not make specific remarks about Blake, 29, who is now paralyzed from the waist down after being shot seven times in the back at point-blank range by Officer Rusten Sheskey on Aug. 23.
Then, following a rally in New Hampshire on Friday, Trump said of the shooting: "It was not a good sight. I didn’t like the sight of it, certainly, and I think most people would agree with that."
National Guard troops first arrived in Kenosha on Monday, but unrest persisted in the city the next two nights.
On Tuesday night, two people were fatally shot and a third was wounded. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, Illinois, has been charged in connection to the killings.
When asked about that shooting Saturday, Trump said he would comment on it in 24 to 48 hours after receiving more information.
Evers clearly was unimpressed with Trump's response.
"It is our job as elected officials to lead by example and to be a calming presence for the people we know are hurting, mourning, and trying to cope with trauma. Now is not the time for divisiveness," Evers wrote. "Now is not the time for elected officials to ignore armed militants and out-of-state instigators who want to contribute to our anguish.
Contact Mary Spicuzza at (414) 224-2324 or mary.spicuzza@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @MSpicuzzaMJS.
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