Federal Prosecutors Won’t Charge Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake

Essence Magazine:

By Kevin L. Clark ·Updated October 13, 2021

The shooting of Jacob Blake left him paralyzed from the waist down, but the officer who fired the bullet will not have any charges filed against him.

State prosecutors decided not to file charges against Officer Rusten Sheskey earlier this year after the video showed that Blake, who was wanted on a felony warrant, was armed with a knife. The action sparked several protests in Kenosha, WI, and

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