Jacob Blake protests in Kenosha Wisconsin

Blake is currently paralyzed from the waist down having been shot seven times by police. 

BREAKING: Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is paralyzed from the waist down, his father tells the Chicago @Suntimes. Doctors don't know if the paralysis will be permanent. https://t.co/pCiKvzTK2Z

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 25, 2020

Peaceful marches in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake gave way to fires and clashes with law enforcement officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin, overnight https://t.co/zJ0bYst9QY pic.twitter.com/FlgwIuAHvZ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 25, 2020

Demonstrations in Kenosha, Wis., continued Monday night and into early Tuesday after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which has given way to protests and some chaotic scenes, including property damage, fires and tear gas across the city’s streets.

Officers shot the 29-year-old Black man multiple times in the back Sunday as he entered a car with his children inside, an incident captured on video that sparked intense protests in the lakefront city and a national outcry.

Kenosha police used tear gas Monday and fired small beanbags at a crowd that threw firecrackers, tore down street signs, smashed storefronts and set fires around the city. By early Tuesday, the National Guard — which had been called in after the previous night’s turmoil — rolled through the streets as multiple buildings burned to the ground and looters ransacked stores.

The fires not only destroyed local businesses — a cellphone store, a tattoo parlor, a furniture store, a Mexican grocery — but they also forced out residents who lived on the second floors of the nearly century-old brick buildings.

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Jacob Blake’s father says his son is now paralyzed from the waist down after being shot 7 times in front of his children for simply breaking up a fight.

This is being Black in America. https://t.co/wvKF7dZxdv

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) August 25, 2020

Arsonists set several buildings ablaze and torched much of the Black business district in a second night of unrest in the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, triggered by the wounding of a Black man shot in the back by officers https://t.co/UZEIicZ0SS

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020

The Sunday police shooting of #JacobBlake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was far too familiar for one Wisconsin father, Michael Bell, whose son was killed by Kenosha police in 2004.

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— The Progressive (@theprogressive) August 25, 2020

The usual RWNJ framing emerges.