Martin Luther King Jr's son joins the family of police shooting victim Jacob Blake to demand racial justice and 'real, lasting structural change'.
Mr Blake's shooting turned Kenosha, a predominantly white city of about 100,000 residents, into the latest hotspot in a summer of protests across the United States over police brutality and racism.Mr Blake's family and protesters have demanded the officers responsible be fired and prosecuted.
The investigation has been turned over to the Wisconsin Justice Department, and the US Justice Department has opened a civil rights inquiry. Wisconsin Attorney-General Josh Kaul said on Wednesday the confrontation stemmed from a domestic complaint lodged by a girlfriend, and that investigators had recovered a knife from the front floorboard of the car that Mr Blake was leaning into when Mr Sheskey shot him.
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