The Department of Justice announced in October that Rusten Sheskey, the Kenosha police officer responsible for the shooting of Jacob Blake last August, will not face federal criminal charges. Officer ...

An uncle of Jacob Blake, whose shooting by a white police officer sparked days of sometimes violent protests in Kenosha in 2020, was recently acquitted of disorderly conduct charges.

Following the dismissal of criminal charges, Jacob Blake filed a lawsuit against the Kenosha police officer who shot him in the back last summer. Last August, Blake — a 29-year-old Black man — was ...