Month: August 2020

A Watertown man is going to prison for sexually assaulting a child.  Forty year old Nathan Lord was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ten years extended supervision for First Degree Child Sexual Assault.   Lord was convicted of sexually assaulting two children at his home in 2015.

The Fond du Lac County District Attorney is urging people not to rush to judgement following the police shooting of a black man in Kenosha last weekend.   Jacob Blake was paralyzed after he was shot seven times in the back as he was leaning into his car Sunday night.  District attorney Eric Toney says it becomes disheartening when people rush to judgement and assume what the facts are instead of waiting for the […]

The president for the Fond du Lac United for Diversity Board says she wants to know when the police shootings of black men are going to stop?   Tracy Abler was reacting to last weekend’s shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha.  Abler says it’s appalling, and she wants to know "When is enough, enough?" Abler says she admits there are a lot of unknowns about the situation.  Abler says she also wonders […]

Days after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, law enforcement authorities have left a host of questions unanswered -- an approach that has not only fueled anger and speculation but runs counter to what an increasing number of American police forces are doing. Many departments are promptly releasing accounts and video of police shootings, in part to fend off rumors and unrest. In the Kenosha case, Investigators […]

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a 17-year-old from Illinois in the fatal shooting of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the wounding of a third. Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley filed the charges against Kyle Rittenhouse Thursday afternoon. The charges include one count of first-degree intentional homicide; one count of first-degree reckless homicide; one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide; two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment. All […]

Repeated calls for armed vigilantes to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to protect businesses following the police shooting of Jacob Blake spread across social media in the hours before two people were shot to death and a third was wounded. Researchers at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab said in a Wednesday blog post that multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit urged militias and other armed people to head to […]

August 26th, 2020 Honorable Governor Tony Evers 115 East Capitol Madison, WI 53702 Lieutenant Governor Mandella Barnes 115 East Capitol Madison, WI 53702 REF: Press Releases and Statements in Reference to the Kenosha Police Involved Shooting Governor Evers and Lieutenant Governor Barnes: The purpose of this letter is to respectfully ask that those in your administration discontinue and refrain from making statements and issuing press releases specific to the City […]