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The video is disturbing to say the least.

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"My son has been fighting for his life and we just really need prayers," Jackson said. "As I was riding through here, through the city, I noticed a lot of damage. That doesn't reflect my son or my family.

"We need healing," she said. "As I pray for my son's healing physically, emotionally and spiritually, I also have been praying even before this for the healing of our country."

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Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with shooting three people — two of them fatally — during a Kenosha protest Tuesday evening, thought of himself as a militia member trying to protect life and property, according to videos, interviews and social media posts.

Video shot in the hours before the shooting shows Rittenhouse, who introduced himself as Kyle, hanging out with older armed men. They say they're protecting a car lot.

Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Ill., also did a video interview with the Daily Caller in front of a boarded up building.

"People are getting injured and our job is to protect this business," Rittenhouse says in the clip. "And my job also is to protect people. If someone is hurt, I’m running into harm’s way. That’s why I have my rifle; I’ve gotta' protect myself, obviously. But I also have my med kit."

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Kenosha police added that the officers involved were placed on administrative leave as authorities investigate, noting that the Wisconsin DOJ's aim is to provide a report of the incident to a prosecutor within 30 days, at which point the prosecutor would make a determination about what charges, if any, are appropriate.

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Wisconsin state Representative David Bowen said he saw white supremacists in Kenosha on Tuesday evening "vandalizing" and attacking demonstrators....

"What I saw last night was a number of individuals riding around in pickup trucks that clearly were white supremacists," the Wisconsin lawmaker said. "They were armed. They were destroying property. They were vandalizing vehicles, including mine, including other protesters' [vehicles]. They were there to agitate and hurt protesters."

Bowen said he has been asked why he and others will keep protesting, despite the violence. He said he will continue to do so "because we cannot allow anyone to take away our constitutional right to transform this system and advocate for what it needs to change into."....

Kenosha County Supervisor Andy Berg said in an interview with CNN that the far-right group the American Patriots Brigade organized and brought in people from outside the city. "We didn't ask them to come here. We don't need them here," Berg said.

"A lot of the destruction happening is not from people of Kenosha. It's people coming in," he said.