8/31/20: Red and Blue
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President Trump visits Kenosha, Wisconsin; FDA Commissioner says he will fast track vaccine.
A Wisconsin district attorney has declined to press charges against Rusten Sheskey, the White police officer who shot Jacob Blake, an African American man who was left paralyzed from the waist down after the incident. Ben Crump, an attorney for the Blake family, joins CBSN AM's Anne-Marie Green to discuss the family's path forward.
The district attorney's office in Kenosha, Wisconsin, announced Tuesday that it will not file charges against Rusten Sheskey, the White police officer who shot Jacob Blake, an African American man, several times in the back on August 23, leaving Blake paralyzed from the waist down. CBS News correspondent Mola Lenghi joins Anne-Marie Green on CBSN AM with more from Kenosha.
"We are going to file a civil rights excessive use of force 1983 civil rights lawsuit against the Kenosha Police Department," Crump said on CBSN Wednesday.
Prosecutors in Wisconsin announced they wouldn't charge the police officer who shot Blake in the back seven times.
The Kenosha, Wisconsin district attorney's office has announced it will not bring charges against Officer Rustin Sheskey in the shooting of Jacob Blake. NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson joined CBSN to talk about the decision.
A Wisconsin prosecutor declined to charge the officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back last year during a domestic dispute call. The officer claimed self-defense in the struggle with Blake. Mola Lenghi reports.
Kenosha, Wisconsin, is on edge after prosecutors announced the officer who shot Jacob Blake will not face criminal charges. Mola Lenghi reports.
Officer Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake in the back in August, sparking national outrage and unrest in Kenosha.
Kyle Rittenhouse was charged with two counts of first-degree homicide and one count of attempted homicide.
No charges will be filed against Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey, the White police officer who shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, in the back over the summer, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced Tuesday. Watch part of his press conference here.
Bail was set at $2 million for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is accused of killing two men during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Kyle Rittenhouse cried and vomited as he described what happened on August 25, police records show.
The families of 2020s most high profile police violence cases are banding together for a Chicago voting rally on Thursday.
Lanhee Chen, policy director for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and an advisor for Senator Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign, joins CBSN to discuss how the political landscape has changed in Wisconsin for President Trump since he won the state four years ago, and how the fallout from police shootings, like that of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, may determine how some voters cast their ballots in cities nationwide.
CBS News special correspondent and host of "The NFL Today" James Brown on the nationwide boycott by some of the top NBA and MLB teams in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake.
Blake's attorney said he's been moved to a spinal injury rehabilitation center in Chicago.
Gaige Grosskreutz says he relives the shooting in his head every day.
"They're carrying the weight of a lot of voices on their shoulders," Harris said
On Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden met with labor union members in Pennsylvania, and while campaigning in Wisconsin, vice presidential hopeful Kamala Harris met with the family of shooting victim Jacob Blake. Ed O'Keefe reports.
Kenosha shooting victim Jacob Blake spoke out publicly for the first time on Saturday, from his hospital bed. His message was somber: he's in constant pain. In the short video, Blake encouraged people to change their lives, and not take them for granted.
Family members have offered a snapshot into the life of Blake, who finds himself at the center of the debate on policing in America.
Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has a message to share from his hospital bed: "Please, I'm telling you, change your lives out there."
The 29-year-old and father of six also described the constant pain he feels in the minute-long clip posted on Twitter.