ATLANTA - Protests in Downtown Atlanta calling for justice in a police-involved shooting in Wisconsin that left a man paralyzed turned violent on Tuesday evening.The crowd started to gather around 8 p.m.
at Woodruff Park shouting for justice for Jacob Blake, a Black man shot multiple times by police in Wisconsin. The shooting of Blake on Sunday in Kenosha — apparently in the back while three of his children looked on — was captured on cellphone video and ignited new protests over racial injustice in several cities, some of which have devolved into unrest.
It came just three months after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police touched off a wider reckoning on race.The 29-year-old underwent surgery, the Blake family’s.