Jacob Blake – a black man shot multiple times by police in Wisconsin in the United States – is paralysed from the waist down and has 'eight holes' in his body, his father says
in a story published on Tuesday that he didn't know if his 29-year-old son's paralysis would be permanent. The older man was travelling from North Carolina to be with his son who was being treated in a Milwaukee hospital.
The father is slated to speak at a March on Washington commemoration on Friday organised by the Reverend Al Sharpton. Since the shooting, anger has spilled into the streets of Kenosha and other cities, including Wisconsin's capital of Madison and in Minneapolis, the epicentre of the Black Lives Matter movement following Floyd's death.
Earlier on Monday, when Kenosha Mayor John Antarmian moved a news conference from a park to inside the public safety building, hundreds of protesters rushed to the building and a door was snapped off its hinges before police in riot gear pepper-sprayed the crowd. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, citing other recent shootings of black people by police, said: "Those shots pierce the soul of our nation."
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