Protests break out in Wauwatosa after DA decides not to charge officer in deadly shooting of teenager; reaction from homeowner Jason Fritz.
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Riots breaking out in the
city of right near Milwaukee
after the d dot, a decides not to
police officer deadly shooting
of a teenage
rioters then reacted slashing
the windows of businesses and
homes.
Then they went into the suburbs
to do some damage
our next guest wouldnt. Have it
he confronted the protesters as
a motorcyclist drove through his
yard
watch.
You dont even know you
dont even know who, in this
neighborhood supports what you
are doing or doesnt
you are going in. My yard.
Push knew my yard
protest,
peaceful protest, which I
know you are all capable of.
We can all have differences.
Brian man, we need people like
this
Jason Fritz joins us now,
Jason, you saw the chaos.
You probably have no experience
with chaos like this.
Why did you go towards it and
try to stop it rather than run
from it?
Well, thank you for having
me Brian.
You know this is actually the
fourth protest. Ha has come
directly past my house,
so you are dont, really have
any experience with confronting
a crowd. Obviously this size,
but we have had some experience
since all of the chaos has
started months ago,
we are seeing protests pass
directly past our house.
I think it was just, as I have
had time to reflect just the
culmination of everything, two thousand and twenty,
so that the protests and the
mandates and lockdowns and riots
and tongue in cheek, I just lost
my favorite guitarist Eddie Van
Halen. Whatever I was thinking,
I was frustrated and fed up and
really the last straw was
looking out my window and seeing
the gentleman on the motorcycle
riding in my lawn.
Something in me clicks a said
internally no more and came
running out of my house and
prepared to confront whatever it
was that I was going to
confront
Brian this incident. They said
it was. There was nothing bad
here: Netanyahu, race related.
You had a black officer and
black suspect.
This thing was deliberated for
months, and then they decide to
bring their outrage to your
lawn.
What did you do wrong
as well as as far as I know,
nothing,
I think what you are just seeing
is the culmination of a lot of
anger that I dont believe is
being directed in the right way.
I wanted to get across to
anybody reasonable from the
crowd that I could find to try
to get that point across, maybe
not as eloquently as I would
have liked, but I would challenge
anyone that has a couple hundred
people surrounding his yard and
honking and motor cycles doing
burnouts and people running up
to you with cell phones. In your
face trying to intimidate and
mock you,
I dont think any of those are
going to exactly sound like sock
secrets. In the moment
I did the best I could to get my
point across,
at least in the moment felt like
I was a little more angry and
yelling than what seems what
other people seemed to have
thought. I did,
which I appreciate and
appreciate that kind of
understanding. In the moment I
assure you I was pretty angry
Brian. I understand that. Can I
ask you something: Jason
everyone wants to address race
relations and make the country a
better place.
If you want to get my attention,
should you wreck my house first,
I dont think that would be
the first way I would go about
it. No,
that was the one of the things I
was trying to get across to the
crowd.
Some people I later found out
video even existed, which I
wasnt aware of at the time
is that you know we are not
your enemy,
that there are commonalities
that we have
and going about it and
destroying property,
destroying businesses and just
extending the riots into chaos
and all the hatred and pain that
our country has been going
through.
If you want to kind of get to
that kind of first step that
first place, that really starts
to get some people to turn
towards your cause.
This is not the way to do it.
There are places we can start
but riding a motorcycle through
my lawn and destroying my
neighbors property
thats not going to get my
attention and there are better
ways to go about it:
Brian, they are bringing their
outrage to the suburbs,
purposefully, Jason
Jason Fritz.
They sure are
Brian standing up speaking out
and standing up for everything.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.