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La Crosse officers provide backup in larger Wisconsin cities
La Crosse County has answered the call for officers from around Wisconsin to help keep the peace in the southeast part of the state this week.
Sheriff Jeff Wolf says three officers from La Crosse County will be in Madison through Thursday night, to back up local police in case of trouble.
Police from many parts of the state have gone to the Kenosha area as reinforcements in response to rioting after the shooting and wounding of a black man by Kenosha police on Sunday, followed by two shooting deaths allegedly by a teenager on Tuesday night.
Wolf expects that police from other cities would be called upon to come to the La Crosse area, if it was necessary to have extra police here.
La Crosse County officers had been scheduled to help provide security this summer at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
But Wolf says since the convention events in Milwaukee were mostly cancelled, the western Wisconsin officers were not needed there last week.