Attorneys for Jacob Blake said on Friday the the 29-year-old who was shot seven times by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer over the weekend was no longer shackled to his hospital bed. Blake’s father had revealed earlier that Blake had spent the week shackled to his hospital bed despite being unable to walk and being heavily medicated. He is shackled to the bed, but he cannot get up, he could not get up, he is paralyzed,” Jacob Blake Sr, father of Jacob Blake Jr, told CNN, describing a hospital visit with his son two days ago. Late on Tuesday, when agitators had confronted protesters, a 17-year-old gunman fatally shot two protesters and wounded another, police said. The Wisconsin department of justice, which previously named Rusten Sheskey as the officer who shot Blake in the back, identified two more officers present during the encounter: Vincent Arenas and Brittany Meronek.

Source: The Guardian August 28, 2020 15:51 UTC