Posted on 09/15/2020 9:08:39 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Much has been written about surviving riots and civil unrest. But there’s nothing like a firsthand account to bring it to life.
We shared an eye-witness story from a National Guard member who told us about the Seattle riots. Another writer shared her family’s experience during the Ferguson riots. We’ve seen brutal videos on YouTube and social media. The violence in our country is increasing dramatically.
Here’s a first-hand story of the Kenosha riots. And now, a woman has shared on Facebook what her family recently experienced in the Kenosha, Wisconsin riots. In her post, the thing that stands out in my mind the most is that help was not on the way. The residents of Kenosha who stood their ground were completely on their own against the mobs rampaging through their neighborhoods. I’ve redacted some identifying information from her post – otherwise, the public post is exactly as she shared it on the social media outlet. All emphasis is mine.
The day of the worst destruction, fires, looting, assaults… all of us in Kenosha were able to watch live -via independent media. The entire start to finish. The worst of it happened on 22nd & 60th, and I live on [redacted], so to tell you I was terrified is an understatement. The majority of Kenosha was watching our two [redacted] live footage well until 3am… police scanners on… bracing for the worst. It was apparent from the beginning there was no help. No police, no fire trucks no ambulances. None. Structures burned to the ground, people hurt and attacked were loaded into cars and raced to any hospital they could get to, rioters just broke into businesses and took what they wanted.
And we all watched it happen. There was nothing we could do.
A sleepless night, we faced the next day with more fear. A massive clean up effort, we helped as many homes and buisnesses as we could, brace for the night, we started to get inundated with messages from individuals and groups … targeting violence to specific neighborhoods, schools, libraries.. with fires and destruction… lots of messages. Most specifically targeting LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS… families!!!
Cars and buses were coming in to the city with no plates… caravans of groups. Again, no extra police or national guard.
But the rioters came to Kenosha that night again.
Our PD and any help it had was standing ground at the PD building and courthouse… and many rioters did not know… our PD was trying to keep them from burning these down, not only because it was our infrastructure but because right between those buildings were A LOT of local inmates that were currently there due to Covid closing our jail (HUBER).
Again live, we watched hundreds of rioters throwing Molotov cocktails at these buildings and burning our city garbage trucks and dump trucks to the ground that we were using to protect these buildings.
I was afraid for the small line of policemen there that night.
Everyone was urging me and Jim to take all of my animals and to leave the city… and let my house burn. To run far away from Kenosha. I love my home. Those who know me, know the pride we have taken in buying an (as-is) house and turning it into a home. And my business! Could I let it be destroyed?? Absolutely NOT!
We have dear friends with a popular business just 4 houses away… we spend at least once a week there… they packed up boarded up and closed.. terrified … it’s on the main road.
All of us were now under now a state of emergency curfew. Get home and off the streets! gas stations ordered to close and turn OFF all gas pumps.. the sirens and alerts on all of our phones coming in non- stop.
So we pulled out every firearm we owned. Loaded them up. And started to get ready… We were not leaving… Jim’s job told him to stay home and protect his family and home. Everyone in the city was getting ready for a war.
Are you starting to feel anxiety reading this?
Getting a grasp of how desperate we all were?
Knowing no law enforcement was helping? And I’m telling you… NO ONE was there.
I have a dear friend who lives in Gurnee. Has a home and a buisness there, and if she called me and Jim and told me her city was under attack, she was afraid for her LIFE and her store … I would help her. We would go to Gurnee and help her. Armed.
And that’s simply what happened. The residents started to realize this was on us. And we organized. Groups and individuals-On rooftop businesses -in the neighborhoods. I felt a little safer that night knowing we had some help.
So we watched again that night …live. Beginning to end.
At the lakefront… there was a small police presence again, where our courthouse and Pd is…. but the PD was nowhere else in the city. It was just us left to fend for ourselves, watching live feed again, Listening to the scanners … lights off, house alarm armed. Curtains drawn – guns ready as we listened to where the rioters were, which way they were headed. Despite the state of emergency curfew the city was flooded with cars driving around with no plates on, groups of people destroying our city. Not enough police to arrest or stop not ONE SINGLE PERSON.
Until the guard came to help… the entire city was left to its own defenses.
Hell… we ran out of plywood to board up!!!
I had the crates ready to throw the animals in and run… guns at every window and door. Constantly texting neighbors and friends around the city for updates.
When we say, if you don’t live here, you could not possibly know what was going on.. do you now understand? How afraid the whole city was?
The national guard FINALLY was called out – and did not mess around. The people who terrorized and destroyed Kenosha were not from Kenosha. Of all the arrests… most were from 44 other city’s. After our IDIOT governor finally asked, we got the help we should have had from DAY ONE. We had FBI and all the surrounding PD’s come to our aid.
If…you don’t live here… you could not possibly understand what we went thru. People should wait before they jump to conclusions. I just am disgusted beyond words at the judgement that’s happening. DISGUSTED
For those of you with children to protect, a business you put your heart and soul in… a home you struggled to own and pay for.. you have got to understand what we all went thru. The fear and the instinct to protect what you love, and what you worked so hard for is strong. I hope no one ever has to go thru anything like this. (source)
The damage in Kenosha is astounding. Kenosha isn’t a huge city. It has a population of about 100,000 people. Until these riots, it was not considered a dangerous city. But things changed fast.
Here are some photos of the aftermath of the riots. Minus the damage from shells and sniper rifles, looks like a warzone to rival things I saw in Bosnia when I met with Selco and took one of his survival courses.
It’s also what they have planned for us should Trump lose the election.
Hopefully the people of the State of Wisconsin will send a strong message on how they all feel about the State’s response to the riots.
“A day later, after the shootings of three demonstrators, two of whom died, Evers again spoke with Trump and the governor said they agreed to have the White House send other federal assistance, including officers from the FBI and U.S. Marshals. A 17-year-old Trump supporter from Illinois is charged with shooting the demonstrators.”
Notice the complete lack of context. It seems as if some “Trump Supporter” just randomly shot three “protesters” just peacefully exercising their constitutional rights. Dear god I hate these people.
I spent two nights at a friends business on the border of Kenosha after he received several threats directly to his business and home.
Dam right we were armed. Some residence of a cul-de-sac just down the road set up a well armed road block as well, and we worked together with coms and observation posts to make sure no troublemakers were going to make it down that road.
And notice how nobody in government gave a flying fornication until rioters started meeting resistance?
THEN suddenly, it was a crisis.
From what I understand, things slowed down considerably after St. Kyle the Ventilator did his work.
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Forensic ballistics can identify your gun.
I was going to apologize because I put too many there. And then I realized I shouldn’t.
But I will apologize to the originator of the thread and my fellow FReepers for inconveniencing them with the scroll.
Amen Sis!
The spiritual prep is by far more important than any doomsday bunker we have.
For the rioters and those spiritually dead following Biden, doomsday will be everyday for eternity once they breath their last.
The thing that is going to shut this down and bring people together is humor. The traveling band of assholes came from 44 other cities and if people saw that they showed up in vehicles without license plates than people can flatten their tires, blow the vehicles up, and cut the escape routes and supply lines of the rioters.
I think the value of maintaining ties with family and friends regardless of ideology cannot be overstated.
I think that finding escapism to reset our brains and then finding common ground and things that we can all laugh at is a major priority.
I think that surveying and then monitoring your town on foot with an eye toward fending off a hostile invasion is also important.
The Democrats might win if the country remains a captive audience of the Vogon poets of the Social Science department. We need to make people laugh and regain their perspective.
Exactly!
We are a cowardly society.
Look, when your community is about to get burned down and the satanic rage of a thousand demons are breathing in your face that they’ll kill you, rape your wife, rape your children and live in your home.
You tell me how you’d react “logical one”?
I imagine a scenario where cops are nowhere to be found, and every person for themselves.
I see lots of bodies being burned post battle. Good luck with your forensic tests then...
Evers deserves a huge smack-down. What a worthless t*rd. What a toad.
All Democrats lead from BEHIND - just like 0bama did. *SPIT*
Hey, Conservatives? Y’all TIRED YET of having to clean up all the expensive, devastating, community-destroying, heartbreaking DISASTERS that Socialist Democrats leave behind any time they have the least little bit of POWER?
How many times have we been witness to this already, in our lifetimes? WAY too many!
I agree, either way something chaotic will happen.
Violence, rage, murder, destruction - it’s all those people know.
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