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Jacob Blake Says He Was Ready to Surrender Before Being Shot
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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Celtics, Heat Walk Off Court Before Game, Citing DC Riot, Jacob Blake Decision
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...
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Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Won't Face Criminal Charges: Kenosha County DA
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.
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Attorney for Jacob Blake's Family on DA Decision: ‘We Won't Stop and It Doesn't Stop Here'
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.
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Kenosha DA: No Charges Against Police Officers Who Shot Jacob Blake
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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5 Most Searched People in 2020 According to Google
World leaders topped the list of Google’s most-searched people in 2020
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Report: 5 Investigations of Kenosha Police Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake
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...
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Accused Kenosha Gunman Won't Face Charges in Illinois
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...
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Jacob Blake Released From Hospital Following Kenosha Shooting
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.
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Lawyer: Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Thought He Was Trying to Kidnap Child
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...
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Jacob Blake Speaks Out for First Time Since Police Shooting
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.
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Lawyer of Accused Kenosha Shooter Resigns From Defense Fund
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.
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Blake's Father Says Paralyzed Son Optimistic After Shooting
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...
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Biden, in Kenosha, Says U.S. Confronting ‘original Sin'
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
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Biden Talks of Inflection Point in ‘American History' During Speech in Kenosha
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addressed a group in Kenosha, Wisc., to talk about this year being an “inflection point” in American history.
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Trump Blames ‘Domestic Terror' for Violence During Visit to Kenosha
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…
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Trump Visits Kenosha Despite Request From Mayor, Governor
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.
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CBS Sports Examines Racism With ‘Portraits in Black'
CBS Sports will devote five hours of programming Sunday to examining racism in sports.
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Ailing Kenosha on Edge as Trump Visit Looms Amid Tensions
Some residents in Kenosha fear a planned visit by President Donald Trump days after unrest over a police shooting may stir more emotions
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‘They Choke, Sometimes': Trump on Police Making Split-Second Decisions
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.”