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Officer Rustin Sheskey will not be charged in shooting of Jacob Blake

UPDATED – January 5, 2021, 3:06 PM

[KENOSHA] – (Malcontent News} Prosecutors in Kenosha, Wisconsin have accounted that Officer Rustin Sheskey, nor any other police officer will be charged with the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

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  • Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley has announced that no officer will be charged in the shooting of Jacob Blake
  • Graveley says they conduct hundreds of interviews and hired an outside expert on the use of force
  • Gravely said that he would be unable to prosecute the case because Blake armed himself, and he could not argue against “self-defense”
  • He stated that the police, witnesses, and Blake were cooperative with the investigation
  • As part of the press conference, they played the 911 call that came in to dispatch and showed the information that officers were provided on the call

Jacob Blake was shot seven times on August 23, 2020, by Kenosha police officers responding to a domestic violence phone call. Blake’s children were in the backseat of the car when he was shot. He survived the shooting but is permanently disabled.

His shooting resulted in days of civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin with multiple injuries, and two protesters shot to death by 17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse.

The District Attorney has made their report available as a PDF

Digital Presentation of the Factual and Legal Conclusions in the Officer-Involved Shooting of Jacob BlakeDownload

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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Kyle Rittenhouse pleads not guilty to seven charges

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  • Kyle Rittenhouse is facing seven criminal charges related to the shooting deaths of two protesters, and the wounding of a third during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin
  • Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said he would be turning over the state’s discovery material to the defense this week
  • Rittenhouse’s lawyer, March Richards, called the scheduled trial date of March 29, 2021, “ridiculous”
  • Rittenhouse is charged with five felonies and two misdemeanors for his actions on August 25, 2020
  • Three others aligned with right-wing militias have been charged with felonies and misdemeanors for their actions in Kenosha, Wisconsin

MILWAUKEE – More than four months after he was charged with killing two protesters and wounding a third during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse formally entered not guilty pleas Tuesday, triggering the next phases of what is still expected to be a drawn out case.

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