President Donald Trump has provided millions of federal funds to owners of businesses damaged in days of violent riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The American leader was in the town on Tuesday to assess the situation, despite the protestation of local officials, with the Governor of the state, Tony Evers even penning a letter to President Trump not to make the trip from D.C to avoid what he called “an increase in an already tensed atmosphere”
The owner of damaged businesses will get four million dollars to get their property back to profitability, while local police will get the balance of a million dollars.
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President Trump surveyed some areas hit by violence and the damaged businesses in parts of Kenosha and at a meeting with some locals, he stressed that his deployment of the National Guard to stem the tide was imperative.
At the time Trump was in Kenosha, a meeting tagged “memorial for Jacob Blake”, the man whose shooting by white police officers sparked the protests, was being held.
Civil rights leader and politician, Jesse Jackson was also in Kenosha.
He addressed the meeting alongside, an uncle of Blake, who is in hospital- paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in the near fatal shooting.
