Protesters set nearly 100 vehicles on fire at Kenosha dealership

  • Source: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
  • Published: 08/24/2020 11:21 AM

Dozens of business owners are cleaning up after a night of unrest in Kenosha. Protesters broke windows and started fires after police shot Jacob Blake, 29, multiple times. Vandals torched dozens of vehicles at a car dealership. A former employee recorded video of the scene. "All cars are done for. There's a couple of them that are salvageable, but every one of them. It was so hot," Nicholas Smith said. "The rims actually melted into metal piles. I mean, everything is done for. The building, water damage, the fire. We'll just take what we got, try and rebuild." Witnesses said hundreds of protesters converged on the dealership. "It started with one car over there in the corner, then this first SUV here," Justin Hamilton said. "Then one Audi on the other side and then it pretty much, once they started that car, within 10 minutes, I would say these first five cars were up in flames."



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