Kenosha Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Returns To Work Without Discipline Officer Rusten Sheskey came back to active duty on March 31 after shooting and paralyzing the 29-year-old Blake in August. The white police officer who paralyzed Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, from the waist down by shooting him seven times last year, has returned to work without facing any disciplinary action. Officer Rusten Sheskey came back from administrative leave on March 31 after an investigation into the August shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, according to a statement released Tuesday by Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis. “He acted within the law and was consistent with training,” the chief said of Sheskey. “The incident was also reviewed internally. Officer Sheskey was found to have been acting within policy and will not be subjected to discipline.”