Handcuffs restraining Jacob Blake to a hospital bed have been removed, his attorney, Patrick Cafferty, told CNN Friday afternoon.
Kenosha County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. David Wright on Friday explained that Blake was handcuffed to the bed because he "has felony warrants for his arrest from crimes he committed prior to the shooting incident."Blake, a Black Wisconsin resident, has been left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot seven times in the back by a White police officer who tried to detain him this week in Kenosha.
Blake, 29, is hospitalized in Wauwatosa, and family members said the sight of him tethered to the bed was heartbreaking. Friday afternoon, an attorney for Blake, Patrick Cafferty, told CNN that he was no longer restrained. A dispatcher appeared to warn responding officers to Blake's warrant, referring to "family trouble" at the residence in Kenosha and an "alert at this address for a ninety-nine." The police code 10-99 can refer to a wanted suspect.
Earlier Friday, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said he "couldn't imagine" why Blake was handcuffed in the hospital. Her added, "President Biden kept telling me his own issues with his family. That he identifies with what I'm going through. I didn't have to keep telling him. He knew. It felt like he knew. It felt like they knew what was going on. And they didn't act like they were in a hurry to go anywhere. They spent time with us."
Bystanders captured the shooting on cellphone video and shared the footage widely on social media, turning the lakeside city of Kenosha intoKenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey fired into Blake's back on Sunday while he was trying to enter a vehicle with his three children watching from the backseat.
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