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(CNN) The chief of police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where two people were shot and killed on a night of protests after Jacob Blake's shooting, appeared to shift the blame for the shooting to those who broke the city's curfew.
During a Wednesday news conference, Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis said the shooting may not have happened if demonstrators and the accused gunman had obeyed the city's newly imposed 8 p.m. curfew.
"Everybody involved was out after the curfew," Miskinis said. "I'm not gonna make a great deal of it but the point is -- the curfew's in place to protect. Had persons not been out involved in violation of that, perhaps the situation that unfolded would not have happened."
CNN has reached out to the Kenosha Police Department for further comment.
The "situation" was a shooting that left two people dead and another seriously injured early Wednesday morning. Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, has been charged in a single shooting incident. Police have not said who is responsible for committing all of the shootings, and they have not provided details on the incident Rittenhouse is charged with.
Kenosha, Wisconsin, has become the epicenter of nationwide protests against police brutality after an officer shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, seven times in the back at close range while three of his children watched from his car.
Blake survived the shooting, and he's being treated in a local hospital for his injuries. His father, also named Jacob Blake, told CNN that his son is paralyzed from the waist down, though he's not sure if the paralysis is permanent.
This is Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis placing blame on the victims for a right-wing domestic terrorist’s acts of murder last night.
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One of the most appalling and enraging clips I’ve ever seen.
This piece of garbage needs to be fired immediately.pic.twitter.com/DAeypkl6ws
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