GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — While cars burned and stores were looted in Kenosha, there was a much more peaceful scene in Green Bay as a handful of protesters gathered at the City Deck and marched to the Green Bay Police Station. They gathered a day after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha.
“I really just want to stand ground and let these cops know it’s not OK,” said protest organizer Kameron Ahnen.
Demonstrators knelt down in the middle of the road in front of the Green Bay Police Headquarters. The protest was originally planned to honor the one year of Elijah McClain’s death.
Sarah Wunderlich is the Aunt of Johnathan Tubby, a man shot and killed in the Brown County Jail in 2018. She participated in the march.
“It’s still about unity and solidarity and knowing and understanding what they’re going through,” she said. “Like, Jacob didn’t pass away, but there’s still trauma there.”
She was invited to speak at the protest about what this trauma is like first-hand.
“That doesn’t go away over night. It doesn’t go away when the cameras are shut off,” said Wunderlich. “They are constantly having to deal with this and yesterday, even today, it’s constant.”
Other protests happened in Oshkosh, Appleton, Fond du Lac and Manitowoc.
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