‘They’re an incredible family’ Kamala Harris says about meeting with Jacob Blake’s family in Milwaukee and speaking to the police shooting victim by phone during her first campaign trip to Wisconsin Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke with Kenosha shooting victim Jacob Blake by phone Monday Harris was making her first campaign trip as … Read more
Joe Biden on Thursday said that a black man created the light bulb, ‘not a white guy named Edison’ during a speech while in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Biden made the remark at the Grace Lutheran Church while speaking with community leaders after a private meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old father who was shot seven … Read more
Attorney General Bill Barr said Wednesday that Jacob Blake was was committing a felony and ‘armed’ at the time a Kenosha police officer shot him in the back last month. The AG made the comment in a CNN interview a day after visiting Kenosha, Wisconsin, a city still reeling from the shooting of the black … Read more
Stunning images show the wide swaths of Kenosha, Wisconsin, that have been ripped apart and burned to the ground during riots over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The city of 100,000 on the shore of Lake Michigan has been roiled by unrest in the week since 29-year-old Blake, a black man, was left paralyzed from … Read more
Donald Trump is trying to set up a meeting with Jacob Blake’s family during his visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday after the shooting victim’s father said the president should have called earlier this week and mother says she missed his call. The president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump revealed to Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace that … Read more
President Trump will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday, following days of protests in the city over the police shooting of black man Jacob Blake, the White House announced on Saturday. Trump will meet with ‘law enforcement and survey damage from recent riots’, White House spokesman Judd Deere told reporters aboard Air Force One. He did … Read more
One of the two protesters fatally shot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night by a 17-year-old vigilante gunman from Illinois was filmed taunting a group of armed individuals moments before he was killed. ‘Shoot me, n*****,’ 36-year-old Kenosha resident Joseph Rosenbaum is heard saying in the video in which he is seen confronting several armed … Read more
President Trump has spoken for the first time about the shooting of Jacob Blake, saying that he is looking into the incident. Blake, a 29-year-old black father, was shot seven times by police Sunday as they responded to a domestic incident at a home in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The shooting sparked several nights of rioting in … Read more
Michelle Obama says she is ‘just devastated’ by the Kenosha shootings – of Jacob Blake and of protesters by teenage gunman – as she urges people to ‘keep using your bullhorns and ballots’ to bring about change Michelle Obama tweeted on Friday that she was ‘exhausted and frustrated’ by the racial tensions in America She … Read more
Jacob Blake, the man shot seven times in the back by Wisconsin police on Sunday, is currently handcuffed in bed, his father has said – despite being paralyzed and charged with no crime. Outrage spread quickly at the news, and people demanded Kenosha police remove the handcuffs. ‘How the f**k do you handcuff Jacob Blake … Read more