Jacob Blake

A Black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin, triggering several nights of violent protests, says he was prepared to surrender just before the officer opened fire

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The Boston Celtics and Miami Heat walked off the court before their scheduled game in Miami. In a statement, the teams attributed the decision to a Wisconsin prosecutor’s choice not to charge the officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, as well as the riot at the U.S. Capitol that broke out Wednesday in Washington. “2021 is a new...

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown sound off against the way pro-Trump protestors were treated after they broke into the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.

The Kenosha officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times in a shooting that sparked a nationwide firestorm will not face criminal charges, the Kenosha County District Attorney announced Tuesday.

B’Ivory Lamarr, the attorney for Jacob Blake’s family, told reporters that they would be pursuing “every remedy that is available” after the Kenosha District Attorney announced that he would not be pursuing criminal charges against the police officers who shot and paralyzed Blake in August.

Michael Gravely, District Attorney of Kenosha County, Wis., announced that he will not pursue charges against the police officers that shot Jacob Blake seven times as he walked away, leaving him paralyzed.

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 The white Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer who shot a Black man in the back, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, had been the subject of five internal investigations since he joined the department in 2013. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that it has reviewed the personnel file of Officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the...

A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will not face charges in his home state of Illinois, prosecutors said Tuesday. An investigation revealed the gun used in the Kenosha shooting was purchased, stored and used in Wisconsin, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office said. There is no evidence the gun...

Jacob Blake was released from the Wisconsin hospital where he was receiving treatment and is now in a rehabilitation center more than a month after he was shot by Kenosha police.

The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last month told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children and that he opened fire because Blake started turning toward the officer while holding a knife, the officer’s lawyer contends. Brendan Matthews, the attorney for Officer Rusten Sheskey and the...

Jacob Blake delivered a message to supporters Saturday, saying he has “a lot more life to live” after being left paralyzed from the waist down by a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, NBC News reports.

Hundreds of “Black Lives Matter” supporters rallied in Boston on Saturday to take a stand and make a statement for racial justice. A diverse crowd came together in Copley Square, where those gathering shared live music and posted drawings of victims of deadly police shootings to the ground outside Trinity Church. “People are trying to heal as well as grieve…

A lawyer representing a 17-year-old charged with shooting three people during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has resigned from his position with a defense fund that has raked in more than $700,000 to defend his client and conservative causes.

Jacob Blake’s father said Friday that his “happy-go-lucky” son is optimistic for his future, although he remains paralyzed from the waist down after being shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer. A clearly exhausted Jacob Blake Sr., speaking by video chat from a Milwaukee hotel, told The Associated Press that the past two weeks...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told residents in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that the turmoil their city has experienced following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, could help the nation confront centuries of systemic racism

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addressed a group in Kenosha, Wisc., to talk about this year being an “inflection point” in American history.

President Donald Trump stood at the epicenter of the latest eruption over racial injustice Tuesday and came down squarely on the side of law enforcement, blaming “domestic terror” for the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and making no nod to the underlying cause of anger and protests — the shooting of yet another Black man by police. Trump declared the violence…

President Donald Trump toured damaged buildings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, despite requests from the city’s mayor and the governor of Wisconsin to reschedule. Trump visited with businesses affected by riots that occurred after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake seven times during an arrest.