Who is Jacob Blake? What led up to the shooting? Here's what we know about what happened in Kenosha
Video that went viral Sunday showed police shooting Jacob Blake, a Black man who lives in Kenosha, Wis., seven times in the back. In the video, Mr. Blake is walking away from officers with weapons drawn as bystanders yell in the background.
Mr. Blake walks around a gray SUV, opens the driver’s side door of the vehicle and leans inside when an officer grabs the tank top he is wearing and shoots him from behind. Several officers have their weapons drawn. An officer can be heard screaming, “Drop the knife,” but it isn’t clear...
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