The Wisconsin unarmed black man who was shot several times in front of his children, by a white police officer has been left paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the shooting.
The shooting which occurred on Sunday around 5 pm, August 23 happened when the Wisconsin cops were called to settle a domestic dispute in the city of Kenosha.
The unarmed father, Jacob Blake, 29, was shot several times as he went to a car and opened the door while his partner and their three children were in the back seat of the vehicle screaming when police shot him. He was later airlifted to a Milwaukee hospital in serious condition.
The shooting sparked two nights of protests in the city, with buildings and cars set alight including a police officer being knocked out cold.
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Jacob Blake Snr, the father told a US newspaper that his son is paralyzed but doctors are unsure if his son’s paralysis is permanent.
He also said Jacob has “eight holes” in his body from the shooting, contradicting police report that he was shot seven times.
“What justified all those shots?” his father asked. “What justified doing that in front of my grandsons? What are we doing?”
His fiancée, Laquisha Booker, described how the children were screaming as their father was shot.
Speaking to a local NBC channel, she asked why the police would shoot someone “who’s not armed, not giving you no problems”.
“You shot him numerous times for no reason, it didn’t take all that,” she said. “[You] disregard that my kids was in the car at all – and you knew that they were in there because I kept screaming that before y’all made it to the other side of the driver’s side to get him in the car.
“I’ve been yelling that the whole time, let me get my kids. So that’s not important to y’all. What’s important is killing somebody.”
The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave.
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