By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Community Reporter
After completing a walk of nearly 400 miles from Kenosha to Minneapolis in support of Black Lives Matter and voter registration, Jared Choate reflected on a run across the country he did 10 years earlier.
He said both journeys shared two truths: there are great people everywhere in the United States, and there is a lack of accountability everywhere as well.
“Many people in America refuse to believe that they are in any way part of any problems, that they should, in any way, be held accountable for their actions,” he said in a recent phone interview with the CVPost.
Husband and wife Jared and Kelly Choate — who live in San Francisco, but are natives of northwestern Wisconsin and UW-Eau Claire alumni — made the journey across Wisconsin from Sept. 1-13.
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