Kenosha echoes nation’s divide over race and police after officer who shot Jacob Blake won’t face charges
Months after flames and unrest gripped Kenosha, Wisconsin, the decision by county officials to not charge the White police officer who shot Jacob Blake has renewed the city’s communal pain and racial divide.
The Kenosha prosecutor’s announcement this week that Rusten Sheskey and other police officers would not face charges in connection with the shooting angered Blake’s family and activists but it wasn’t surprising.
“We expected it,” Blake’s father, Jacob Blake Sr. said Tuesday. “We understood what was going to come when they called in [the] National Guard” ahead of the decision.