Articles (Jacob Blake)
“Two Wisconsin police officers are on leave Monday as state authorities investigate why a Black man [Jacob Blake] was shot multiple times in the back as he entered the driver’s side door of an SUV, officials said.
The man’s three children — 3, 5 and 8 — were in the car, a family attorney said.
Identified by the governor as Jacob Blake, the man is in stable condition in an intensive care unit, according to attorney Ben Crump, who represents the Blake family. Crump posted a video of the Sunday evening shooting in Kenosha.
The footage spread across social media, sparking protests and leading county officials to institute a curfew that remained in place until Monday morning. Another will be instituted from 8 p.m. Monday until 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department.
The shooting came as demonstrators continue to decry police violence in American cities, including the encounters that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The night before Blake’s shooting, protests erupted in Lafayette, Louisiana, after police killed a Black man — Trayford Pellerin, 31 — outside a convenience store.”
– CNN, Wisconsin police shoot a Black man as his children watch from a vehicle, attorney says.
“A Wisconsin county again declared an emergency curfew after a night of protests over a video that showed police officers firing several shots at close range into a Black man’s back Sunday night.
The curfew will be in effect from 8 p.m. Monday night until 7 a.m.Tuesday, according to the Kenosha Police Department. The Wisconsin National Guard headed to Kenosha on Monday, according to the Kenosha News.
The state Department of Justice is investigating after officers from the department responding to a domestic incident shortly after 5 p.m. were involved in a shooting, according to a news release.
The man who was shot, identified by Gov. Tony Evers as Jacob Blake, was airlifted to a Milwaukee hospital and was in serious condition as of early Monday, police said. Tyrone Muhammad, a member of the group Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, said Blake’s father told him Blake was out of surgery and expected to survive.”
– USA Today, Police shooting of Jacob Blake: National Guard heads to Kenosha after protests erupt, Wisconsin DOJ to investigate.
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