The father of Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old Black man who was shot seven times by a Kenosha, Wis., Police officer, told the Chicago Sun-Times that his son is in handcuffs to his hospital bed.
“I hate that he was lying in that bed with the handcuffs on the bed,” Blake’s father said Thursday, the day after he visited his son in the hospital. ‘He can go nowhere. Why did you tie him to the bed? “
Officials have not filed any charges against Blake. Authorities from the Kenosha Police Department, the District Attorney’s Office and the Wisconsin Department of Justice did not respond to requests for comment by the Sun-Times.
Blake was shot at officers answered a call about a domestic dispute. Blake’s lawyer, Ben Crump, said Blake was trying to de-escalate the situation before being questioned by police.
Officials identified the officer involved in Blake’s shooting Wednesday. They did not specify if Blake was the man officers were looking for.
It is unclear how many officers were involved in Blake’s shooting, but those on administrative leave said officials.
Blake’s shooting – which his family said he had at least temporarily paralyzed from the waist down – has led to days of unrest in Kenosha this week.
On Tuesday night, two Protestants were shot and killed and one was injured. Officials later accused Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois, of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the shooting.
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