Kamala Harris says Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake ‘should be charged’
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, a former California attorney general, said a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer should be charged with a crime based on what she knows about the shooting of Jacob Blake.
Officer Rusten Sheskey fired seven shots into Blake’s back as Blake attempted to get into a vehicle and after two Tasers didn’t stop him from attempting to leave a Kenosha residence, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
“I believe there should be a thorough investigation, and based on what I’ve seen, it seems that the officer should be charged,” the California senator said in an interview with The Today Show on NBC released Friday.
“The man was going to his car. He didn’t appear to be armed. And if he was not armed, the use of force that was seven bullets coming out of a gun at close range in the back of the man, I don’t see how anybody could reason that that was justifiable,” Harris said.
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Shesky shot Blake in the back as he opened the driver’s side door of an SUV with his children inside. Police were trying to arrest Blake after his girlfriend called them to say he was not supposed to be on the property, according to the state DOJ.
