Federal agents sent to Kenosha, but history shows militarized policing in cities can escalate violence and trigger conflict
- Written by Angélica Durán-Martínez, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Sending in the feds to quell unrest often increases conflict on the ground, as it did this summer in Portland, Ore.Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesThe U.S. Justice Department has dispatched federal agents and U.S. marshals to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a police shooting left an unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, paralyzed. The Aug. 23 shooting triggered...