Jacob Blake paralyzed; protesters and police square off in Kenosha, Wis.
by Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times
Aug 25, 2020
3 minutes
KENOSHA, Wis. - The National Guard was out, smoke tinged the air, and word came that a Black man with gunshot wounds lay paralyzed in the hospital.
Almost three months after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, protests and violence were reignited in cities across the U.S. this week after a video showed a police officer appearing to shoot 29-year-old Jacob Blake in the back as he entered his SUV on a residential street in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Hundreds gathered overnight in this city of 100,000, in defiance of an 8
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