Jacob Blake has dropped his federal civil rights lawsuit against the Wisconsin police officer who shot him during a domestic disturbance and left him paralyzed from the waist down.

A judge has delayed the trial for a man accused of firing off a “warning shot” on the night two people were killed in Wisconsin during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake

Loved ones of Jacob Blake expressed outrage following the not guilty verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial Friday with one relative referring to the ruling as a
“terrible, tragic injustice.”

The Rainbow Push Coalition’s Bishop Tavis Grant and Justin Blake, Jacob Blake’s family member, responded to Kyle Rittenhouse verdict outside the Kenosha County Courthouse.

Activist Bishop Tavis Grant spoke outside the Kenosha courthouse moments after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges after killing two people during social justice protests last summer. Grant appeared alongside Justin Blake, the uncle of Jacob Blake who was killed in Kenosha and whose death prompted the protests Rittenhouse attended.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, residents wonder if their city will once again be impacted by violence after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict is handed down. The impact of this case is being felt across the city one year after Jacob Blake was shot by police. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

Some businesses just down the street from the Kenosha County Courthouse are still boarded up from the unrest last summer following the shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha police officer.

A juror in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial was dismissed Thursday after a court security officer reported that the man told a joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which set off protests in the Wisconsin city where Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three people.

A juror in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial was dismissed Thursday after a court security officer reported that the man told a joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which set off protests in the Wisconsin city where Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three people.

Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for shooting three people, two of them fatally, at a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Illinois teenager will have his fate decided by 20-person jury panel that contains one person of color, according to NBC News. Legal analyst and criminal defense attorney Molly Parmer weighs in.