Loved ones of Jacob Blake expressed outrage following the not guilty verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial Friday with one relative referring to the ruling as a
“terrible, tragic injustice.”

Activist Bishop Tavis Grant spoke outside the Kenosha courthouse moments after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges after killing two people during social justice protests last summer. Grant appeared alongside Justin Blake, the uncle of Jacob Blake who was killed in Kenosha and whose death prompted the protests Rittenhouse attended.

A juror in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial was dismissed Thursday after a court security officer reported that the man told a joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which set off protests in the Wisconsin city where Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three people.

Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for shooting three people, two of them fatally, at a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Illinois teenager will have his fate decided by 20-person jury panel that contains one person of color, according to NBC News. Legal analyst and criminal defense attorney Molly Parmer weighs in.

When Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial Monday for shooting three men during street protests in Wisconsin that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake last summer, he’ll argue that he fired in self-defense.

Federal prosecutors say they won’t file charges against a white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last year

Officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have denied a claim for damages from Jacob Blake Jr., the Black man who was paralyzed when he was shot by a white police officer last summer.

The white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last summer was suspended for three days this year because his service weapon was stolen just weeks after the shooting that left the Black man partially paralyzed.

A white police officer from Wisconsin who was investigated and cleared for shooting and injuring a Black man during a domestic dispute has returned from administrative leave, officials said Tuesday.

Attorneys representing Jacob Blake have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot Blake in the side and back during a confrontation in August.