Kenosha County

A Black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin, leaving him partially paralyzed and triggering several nights of violent protests, said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he was prepared to surrender just before the officer opened fire.

Kyle Rittenhouse, the Antioch teen charged with fatally shooting two people during protests last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, did not violate his bond by going to a bar hours after pleading not guilty to the charges against him, police say.

A Wisconsin prosecutor’s decision not to bring charges against the officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back came as little surprise to some activists for racial justice, who predict laws must change before police are truly held accountable for using force against Black men.

A decision on whether to charge Kenosha Police officer Rusten Sheskey with the shooting of Jacob Blake is expected to come within the next couple weeks. City officials are planning to "protect people demonstration and guard against unlawful activity" by designated protest locations, limiting city bus routes, closing roads and instituting a curfew.

An online sales company has stopped selling merchandise supporting an Illinois teen who killed two people and wounded a third during a protest in Wisconsin this summer.

a photo surfaced on Twitter of Rittenhouse posing with actor Ricky Schroder with a caption, "FREE AT LAST."

An Illinois teenager who is charged with shooting three people, including two fatally, during a Wisconsin protest over police brutality said he used pandemic relief funds to pay for the assault-style rifle that a friend purchased for him.

Any claims about what happened in Wisconsin have no role in whether to extradite an Illinois teenager to that state to face charges in the killing of two protesters, prosecutors said Thursday.

Sending a 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to stand trial in Wisconsin would “turn him over to the mob,” defense attorneys argued in court records Thursday.

Jacob blake's family is speaking exlusively with us as blake moves to a chicago rehab center.

Hundreds of people held a peaceful march in Evanston on Saturday to show support for the families of Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor and to push for people to get out and vote.

"It's more than a suggestion that people are seeking to do harm to cops," Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said. Nationwide this year, 37 police officers have been killed in the line of duty; last year at this time, the death toll was 30.