Jacob Blake protests: Trump announces funding for Kenosha police, businesses during visit | FULL

U.S. President Donald Trump visited Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday despite objections from state and local leaders, amid ongoing unrest over the shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man shot by a police officer on Sunday, Aug. 23.

Trump held a community safety roundtable attended by local police, city officials and small business owners in Kenosha where he announced funding for law enforcement in the city.

He pledged to provide US$1 million in federal support to Kenosha law enforcement, US$4 million to small businesses, and US$42 million to public safety statewide, contrasting that with "leftist" calls to "defund the police."

"I'm committed to helping Kenosha rebuild," Trump said.

The state's Democratic governor and the city's Democratic mayor both urged Trump to avoid Kenosha to prevent inflaming tensions and allow citizens to heal, but the president dismissed their appeals in order to show support for law enforcement and business owners whose stores were looted and set ablaze.

The Republican president did not visit Blake, who was paralyzed from the waist down after a white police officer fired at his back seven times on Aug. 23, nor his family, but did plan to meet with his mother's pastor.

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