Jacob Blake

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.

CBS Sports will devote five hours of programming Sunday to examining racism in sports.

Some residents in Kenosha fear a planned visit by President Donald Trump days after unrest over a police shooting may stir more emotions

President Donald Trump discussed split-second decisions made by law enforcement saying “they choke, sometimes” and that is what get’s all the attention, but the “tens of thousands of great things they do, nobody covers that.”

President Donald Trump says he will still visit Kenosha, Wisc., despite a request from Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to postpone.

Images of unrest in Kenosha — protesters clashing with police, shattered windows, a teenager carrying an AR-15 style rifle in the streets — are intensifying the partisan divide in Wisconsin

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday, asking the president to reconsider his planned visit to Kenosha on Tuesday.

President Trump and Joe Biden are preparing to return to the campaign trail after a weekend of protests. Biden will speak Monday in Pittsburgh, while the president on Tuesday will take his law and order message to Kenosha, Wisconsin. The president’s planned visit, which does not include a meeting with Jacob Blake’s family, comes despite requests from the governor and...

A rally was held Sunday night at Nubian square in Roxbury to demand justice for Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by police seven times in his back in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Nine people arrested by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for allegedly being outside agitators were in the city to distribute food to protesters, a director of the nonprofit kitchen said Saturday. Jennifer Scheurle, who serves on the board of directors for Riot Kitchen, based in Seattle, said Kenosha police were mistaken when they arrested the volunteers Wednesday for investigation of disorderly…