Reuters Christian Hartmann
The American judiciary announced that it will not file any charges against any policeman in the case of the injury of African-American Jacob Blake paraplegic, after a policeman shot him in the city of Kenosha last August.
Kenosha County Prosecutor Michael Griffley said, “No criminal charge will be filed against any district police officer in this case, based on the facts and the law.”
The local authorities preempted the declaration of imposing a state of emergency in the city in the Great Lakes region in the north-east of the country, which has a population of 100,000, and put 500 members of the National Guard ready to deploy if violence erupted in protest against the Attorney General’s decision.
The facts of the case go back to last August, when Blake (29 years) was shot by police in front of his three children while he was traveling in his car, and he escaped death but was paralyzed by paraplegia that crippled him.
A passerby video showed Police Officer Rustin Chesky spraying Blake’s back with bullets as the latter tried to get into his car and his three children in it.
The United States has witnessed a historic protest movement against racism and police violence since the killing of George Floyd last May, in Minneapolis, a policeman suffocated for about 9 minutes on his neck.
Source: “AFP”
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