U.S. Marshals assist Kenosha police in arrests
Federal law enforcement was assisting Kenosha police Thursday night as they enforced a citywide curfew imposed in the wake of the unrest that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
About 9:20 p.m., a man helping officers take at least one person into custody identified himself as a member of the U.S. Marshals Service. He then left the scene in an unmarked, silver Ford F-150 with its truck bed covered.
About an hour later, two marshals were seen assisting cops with another curfew arrest on Sheridan Road near 56th Street. They were riding in an unmarked, black Chevrolet Tahoe.
The local officers were also in unmarked vehicles, though a squad car eventually pulled up to transport the elderly man who was being taken into custody.
The U.S. Marshals Service didn’t respond to a request for comment.
In July, officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and U.S. Customs and Border Protections Border Patrol Tactical Unit were deployed to Portland to guard federal property amid rioting.
After two protesters were shot to death Tuesday and another person wounded, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter the following afternoon that federal law enforcement was being sent to Kenosha.
The arrest in Kenosha came less than an hour after five buses pulled up to a fenced off area downtown that contains a courthouse and other municipal buildings. Hundreds of Wisconsin State Patrol officers and what appeared to be National Guardsmen then filed off the buses.