A Wisconsin prosecutor announced on Tuesday, January 5 that he will not file criminal charges against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Blake was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot several times in the back as he got into a car where his three children were sitting.
"We are immensely disappointed and feel this decision failed not only Jacob and his family but the community that protested and demanded justice," Blake's attorney Ben Crump said in a statement. "This isn't the news we hoped for, but our work is not done and hope is not lost. We must broaden the fight for justice on behalf of Jacob Blake and the countless other Black victims of racial injustice and police brutality."
The Blake shooting happened three months after George Floyd died while being restrained by police officers in Minneapolis, which also cause racial tension across America.
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