Wednesday’s game between the LA Galaxy and Real Salt Lake will not be played at Dignity Health Sports Park, after the players went on strike in response to current events taking place in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by a police officer on Sunday in Kenosha, amid considerable outcry. The shooting led to sustained protests in the city, and on Tuesday, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse shot three protesters, killing two, in Kenosha. There was major outcry as a result of the incidents, with Blake being a black man and Rittenhouse a white man, the latter not arrested until Wednesday after the shootings were widely publicized.