On-The-Ground Reporter Leaves Milwaukee: Not Safe for Whites

“I will no longer cover what is happening here.”

Video blogger and independent reporter Tim Cast has been in Milwaukee covering the Black Lives Matter riots but has announced he's leaving, saying it’s no longer safe for whites. 

Cast has witnessed the violence first hand: rioting, arson, rocks thrown at cops and officers injured. 

“I will no longer cover what is happening here,” Cast said. “It culminated with an 18-year-old white kid being shot in the neck yesterday.”

“We got reports coming in that white people were being attacked by crowds,” Cast explained. He chalked it up as isolated attacks against the media as opposed to a particular racial threat. His opinion quickly changed:

“But upon arriving here, one of the first things we hear was the crowd getting angry and saying, you know, ‘What are these white people doing here?’ … I take all that stuff with a grain of salt. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s unsafe, it just -- look, these locals are angry and they’re angry for a reason. But things started to get really tense later in the day when people started screaming, ‘F*** white people,’ ‘You white people suck.’”

It was then that Cast witnessed protesters physically attacking other reporters and encouraging more of the same. But it wasn’t until he saw the boy walk by holding his bleeding neck that Cast decided he should get out of town. 

“For those that are perceivably white, it is just not safe to be here, and that’s why I’m deciding to leave,” he said.

“For those wondering,” Cast continued, “I’m actually Korean; I’m mixed, but most people down here when I was covering this, they don’t make that conclusion. They just look at me and start saying things about white people.”

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