Kenosha Police Union Gives Its Account of Blake Shooting

Kenosha Police Union Gives Its Account of Blake Shooting
Adria-Joi Watkins poses with her second cousin Jacob Blake in Evanston, Ill., in September 2019. Adria-Joi Watkins via AP
The Associated Press
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MADISON, Wis.—The Kenosha police union on Aug. 28 offered the most detailed accounting to date on officers’ perspective of the moments leading up to police shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back, saying he had a knife and fought with officers, putting one of them in a headlock and shrugging off two attempts to stun him.

The statement from Brendan Matthews, attorney for the Kenosha Professional Police Association, goes into more detail than anything that has been released by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which is investigating.