I treat people well.”Ī Jackson Hewitt Tax Service along the street was looted overnight. I’m just trying to figure out what we did to deserve this. “I don’t really have a choice,” he said, after being asked if the business will recover.
More than half of that came from the windows alone, which he said are not covered by insurance. All told, he said, the business probably took at least $10,000 in damages. His front windows were smashed, an untold number of items were stolen and he found evidence of attempted arson. The store’s owner, Jim DeGrazio, said he’s been on the block for 28 years.
“This neighborhood is not bad,” she said as she became emotional. She said she saw people dousing flames with red gasoline containers and was called white slurs when she tried to intervene. Tuesday, people smashed windows and tried to set fire to several other buildings, including her apartment building and that of Treasures Within. Kelly Towers lives along the street and sometimes helps out at Treasures Within, a thrift store. Several related similar experiences of witnessing their buildings being damaged on Facebook livestreams, hearing their own alarms sound and watching their property be destroyed.Ī man who said he was the property owner shooed away several onlookers Tuesday morning and berated another reporter for trespassing.Īlong 60th Street, B&L Office Furniture and a Wisconsin Department of Corrections building were destroyed Monday night. One after another Tuesday, business owners and managers spoke with blank, unfocused expressions as they and others tried to clean and make sense of the mess. on 60th Street, which has been owned and operated by her family for 40 years. This is our livelihood,” Christine Wallent said as she looked at the charred remains of B&L Office Furniture Inc. More: 'My son is fighting for his life': Jacob Blake is paralyzed from waist down after he was shot by Kenosha police Every car in a dealership lot was charred.Ĭountless other buildings had smashed windows and vandalized exteriors. KENOSHA - The anger and frustration that has shaken Kenosha after police shot a Black man in the back seven times at point-blank range has left a trail of smoldering destruction from the city’s government campus to its Uptown area.Īt least half a dozen buildings burned to the ground, including small businesses and a Wisconsin probation and parole office.
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