Here's What We Know About The Kenosha, Wisconsin, Shooting
On Tuesday night, video captured the moment a 17-year-old wielding an assault rifle appeared to shoot two people during a protest in Wisconsin following the police shooting of a Black man days earlier. Two people are now dead and a third person is injured. Here’s everything we know so far:
Protests began after officers shot a Black man in his back seven times.
Outrage erupted across the US following another police shooting of a Black man on Sunday. Cellphone video captured the moment 29-year-old Jacob Blake walked to his car and was shot at least seven times in the back by Kenosha police officers.
It’s unclear what occurred prior to the shooting, which police have described as a “reported domestic incident.” Witnesses told the Chicago Sun-Times that Blake was trying to break up a fight.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Wednesday identified Rusten Sheskey as the officer who shot Blake. Kaul said officers were responding to a call from a woman about a domestic issue and had attempted to use a Taser on Blake, but were “unsuccessful.”
The cellphone video shows that Blake was unarmed as he walked toward his car, where his three children ― ages 3, 5 and 8 ― were sitting when police shot him. Blake had plans to celebrate his 8-year-old son’s birthday the day he was shot.
Attorney Ben Crump, who has also represented the family of George Floyd, said Tuesday that Blake is alive but paralyzed after the bullets severed his spinal cord and shattered his vertebrae.
“It’s going to take a miracle for Jacob Blake Jr. to ever walk again,” Crump said at a press conference.
Blake’s family plans to file a civil lawsuit against the police department over the shooting.
Protesters clashed with police and the National Guard.
On Monday night, hundreds of protesters defied an 8 p.m. curfew to make their voices heard and to hold the police department that left Blake paralyzed accountable.
At least 125 members of the Wisconsin National Guard joined local law...
