The
district attorney found that officer Rusten Sheskey acted in self-defence while
responding to a domestic dispute.
Blake
was shot in the presence of his three young sons and his lawyers said they are
considering a civil lawsuit against Sheskey.
KENOSHA
– Wisconsin prosecutors on Tuesday cleared a white police officer of criminal
charges in the shooting a black man from behind in the presence of his young
children, leaving him paralysed and triggering deadly protests that inflamed US
racial tensions.
Kenosha
County District Attorney Michael Graveley found officer Rusten Sheskey acted in
self-defence while responding to a domestic dispute last year on 23 August, and
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Kyle Rittenhouse (Kenosha County Circuit Court, FreeKyleUsa.com)
The family of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse is selling Free Kyle merch on the FreeKyleUsa.com to fund his murder trial defense which includes a $43 bikini. The 17-year-old Rittenhouse from Antioch, Illinois, faces charges for the murder of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and for the attempted murder of Gaige Grosskreutz, also 26. The shootings happened in the wake of protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake on August 23, which saw the victim being left paralyzed. Rittenhouse had arrived at the protests with an AR-15 rifle but his lawyer, Mark Richards, insists he had acted in self-defense.