A young, white gunman was caught on video opening fire in the middle of the street with a semi-automatic rifle just before midnight. He could be heard saying, "I just killed somebody."
Kenosha police officers' "irresponsible, reckless, and inhumane actions nearly cost the life of a man who was simply trying to do the right thing by intervening in a domestic incident. It’s a miracle he’s still alive," attorney Ben Crump said of the shooting of Jacob Blake.
Keith Mondello led a mob of mostly-white youths wielding baseball bats that attacked and killed Black teen Yusuf Hawkins, all over Mondello's issues with an ex-girlfriend.
"I don't know who shot Yusuf Hawkins, but it wasn't my friends and it wasn't me," Joseph Fama says in the HBO documentary, "Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn."
During the trial for Yusuf Hawkins' murder, the defense attempted to argue Gina Feliciano, an ex-girlfriend of one of the accused killers, was actually to blame for his death.
Thomas Lane's defense is asserting that George Floyd's death was his own doing, angering Floyd's family who feel he's being unjustly dragged through the mud.
