KENOSHA - Wisconsin Justice Department investigators recovered a knife from the driver's side floorboard of the car into which Mr Jacob Blake Jr, was leaning when he was shot in the back by a police officer three days ago, the state attorney general said on Tuesday .
Attorney General Josh Kaul also told a news conference that Mr Blake, 29, a Black man whose wounding by police has left him paralysed and the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, torn by civil strife, had admitted to investigators that he had a knife in his possession at the time.
During the incident, Mr Kaul said, police tried to arrest Mr Blake, using a Taser stun gun in an attempt to subdue him but failed. Mr Blake, according to the attorney general, then walked around his vehicle, opened the driver's side door and leaned forward, as officer Rusten Shesky, clutching onto Mr Blake's shirt, fired his weapon seven times at Mr Blake's back.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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