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Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation on Wednesday evening, Aug. 26 released the name of the officer who shot Jacob Blake Sunday, Aug. 23, Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey, a seven-year veteran. DOJ officials said Blake "admitted that he had a knife in his possession" Sunday evening.

KENOSHA, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer involved shooting (OIS) in Kenosha, Wis. that occurred on the evening of Sunday, August 23, 2020. Kenosha Police Department officers were dispatched to a residence in the 2800 block of 40th Street after a female caller reported that her boyfriend was present and was not supposed to be on the premises. During the incident, officers attempted to arrest Jacob S. Blake, age 29. Law enforcement deployed a taser to attempt to stop Mr. Blake, however the taser was not successful in stopping...

NBA teams are boycotting their playoff games to protest the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who is black. Black Lives Matter protests have surged across the US once more this week in response to Kenosha, Wisconsin, police paralyzing Blake by shooting him in the back seven times on Sunday. The boycotts began with the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday in their game with Orlando Magic. "Some things are bigger than basketball. The stand taken today by the players and org shows that we're fed up," Bucks Senior Vice President Alex Lasry, who is the son of Bucks owner Marc Lasry,...

Additional Wisconsin National Guard members will be deployed in the state to respond to protests — sparked by the police shooting of a Black Kenosha man on Sunday — that have turned violent over the last two nights. Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency related to protests. Under the order, the Guard will deploy an additional 125 members to support Kenosha County. Additional adjustments will be made to meet local needs, Evers said in a statement. The Guard deployed 125 members to Kenosha on Monday. "Everyone should be able to exercise their...

A Twitter spokesman says activist and accused fraudster Shaun King’s threat to name Kenosha, Wisc., police officers is “not in violation” of its rules — including its ban on “a threat of harm against an identifiable group,” a rule used to censor President Trump. King tweeted Tuesday that the Kenosha Police Department must “name the officer” who shot Jacob Blake, or “we will simply begin naming officers from your department who may or may not be him.” The former Daily News columnist has 1.1 million followers and the tweet was widely criticized as a threat against officers uninvolved in the...

Kenosha police scanner audio indicates Kenosha, Wisconsin, officers opened fire on Jacob Blake less than five minutes after a woman called police — but knew that a warrant had been issued for Blake’s arrest.“According to the audio obtained by Madison365, someone called police to report that Blake was at her home and wasn’t supposed to be, and that he had taken her keys and was refusing to give them back. A dispatcher relayed this message to patrol officers at about 5:11 pm Sunday,” Madison365 reported. “About 30 seconds later, she let patrol officers know that there was ‘an alert...

Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested on Wednesday in his hometown of Antioch, Illinois and charged with first degree intentional homicide following the shooting death of two protesters The complaint says the teenager 'fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution' Dramatic video captured the moment one victim was shot in the head and another was shot in the chest shortly before midnight on Tuesday. A third man was shot in the arm but he survived The arrest of the teen came hours after video emerged of him walking up to police with his hands in the air...

Left-wing activist and media darling Shaun King continues to hurl his brand of toxicity into Kenosha, Wisconsin, by doxing individual police officers for his bloodthirsty followers. “To the Kenosha Police Department, If you do not name the officer who brutally shot Jacob Blake on Sunday, we will simply begin naming officers from your department who may or may not be him,” King tweeted from his verified account. “XXXX it. Your protection of his identity is unethical. What’s his name?”

Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old suspected of fatally shooting at least two people and injuring another during protests in Kenosha over the shooting of Jacob Blake, has been arrested, according to local media reports. Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested in Illinois and has been reportedly charged with first-degree intentional homicide.

Julia Jackson, the mother of Jacob Blake, blasted rioters who have caused substantial violence and riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this week after her 29-year-old son was shot by police during an attempted arrest, saying that she is “disgusted” by their behavior. “My family and I are very hurt and quite frankly disgusted,” Jackson told CNN’s Don Lemon. “And as his mother, please don’t burn up property and cause havoc and tear your own homes down in my son’s name. You shouldn’t do it. People shouldn’t do it anyway, but to use my child or any other mother or father’s child,...

Heavily armed civilians have been filmed protecting businesses in Kenosha after arsonists set buildings alight, torching much of the black business district Monday. In footage taken by a local reporter, a small group of men can be seen carrying rifles and wearing combat gear as they protect local shops. They deny they are part of a militia.

A GoFundMe fundraiser for Jacob Blake—a 29-year-old Black man who was shot multiple times in the back by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday—has raised over $1 million since its Monday launch. The page was posted one day after Blake’s encounter with police, asking originally for $250,000 to help pay for his medical bills and legal fees. Quickly surpassing the initial goal, the page’s organizer, Julia Jackson, has continued upping the goal as donations continue pouring in. Nearly 38,000 people have donated a total of $1,038,560, with a new goal of $2 million. A cell phone video posted to...

Jacob Blake’s Mother | Julia Jackson Encourages People to Stop Violence & Destruction

A key eyewitness in the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says that police told Blake to “drop the knife,” though he himself did not see Blake carrying a knife at the time. The eyewitness has been identified by the Associated Press as Raysean White, and as the person who made the original cellphone video of the shooting. The AP reported Tuesday: The man who said he made the cellphone video, 22-year-old Raysean White, said he saw Blake scuffling with three officers and heard them yell, “Drop the knife! Drop the knife!” before the gunfire erupted....

Kenosha, Wisconsin exploded in violence on Sunday evening when a black man named Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by a police officer after he refused an order to stop, and attempted to gain entry into a vehicle. On Monday, the Green Bay Packers, headquartered roughly 150 miles away from Kenosha, issued a statement saying they were “shocked” by the video of the shooting. The team also, despite acknowledging that a full investigation has barely even begun, used the incident to blast “systemic racism” and “injustices against black people.” “The Packers organization was shocked to see the...

CNN changed a chyron during a segment early this week on the violent protests in Wisconsin over the weekend, removing the word “violent” from the chyron—even though the protests were, in fact, violent. During a live broadcast on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” the network aired the following chyron: 00:3800:56 8PM CURFEW ORDERED AFTER VIOLENT PROTESTS OVER POLICE SHOOTING OF UNARMED BLACK MAN IN WISCONSIN Several seconds later the chyron was taken down and was then put back up on the screen after the network removed the word “violent” from it: 8PM CURFEW ORDERED AFTER PROTESTS OVER POLICE...

New Footage - only a Foreign Paper would report. “The 29-year-old unarmed black man who was shot seven times by a Wisconsin police officer on Sunday was involved in a brawl with several Kenosha cops moments before the shooting.”

Mass Looting As Rioters Burn Businesses Over Kenosha Shooting, Hit Cop In Head With Brick Sandy Malone Kenosha, WI – Rioters started fires, smashed windows, and looted businesses in Kenosha Sunday night into Monday morning, leaving at least one police officer seriously injured after he was hit in the head with a brick. Rioters began setting fires in the street and attacking police vehicles while officers were still investigating at the scene of the officer-involved shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake on Aug. 23, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. They jumped on top of police cars and smashed out windows as...

Protesters for the second consecutive night wreaked havoc in Kenosha, Wisconsin — setting fires to buildings and facing off with authorities over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. In defiance of an 8 p.m. curfew, the crowd set ablaze a furniture store, a building that houses the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and cars at a local dealership, according to footage posted to social media. Shelby Talcott, a reporter for The Daily Caller, posted a video to Twitter of the furniture store fully engulfed in flames

After only a couple hours rioters have set multiple buildings on fire, looting and methodically smashing windows on one building after another. Camera crews and national guard are standing in place on the courthouse block, but the vast bulk of rioting is elsewhere. There are several reports of shooting, and I've seen heavily armed private security at a still operating gas station shown. (look like regular civilians not pro)