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Hundreds in Omaha protest shooting of Jacob Blake
By Reece Ristau , Nancy Gaarder , Jessica Wade
Demonstrators gathered at two locations in Omaha on Monday to again protest the shooting of a Black man, this time the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.
Kenosha police were responding to a domestic disturbance Sunday when they shot Blake, 29. He has been hospitalized in serious condition.
According to cellphone video, Blake appeared to disregard officers’ orders to stop as he walked around the front of a vehicle and started to get into it. As he leaned into the SUV, he was shot from behind by the officers. Blake’s three children were in the SUV.
Omahans gathered first at the corner of 72nd and Dodge Streets early Monday evening and then in the Old Market at 11th and Howard Streets. About 125 people attended the first rally, and after it wound down, more than 200 people gathered downtown.
FULL story here: https://omaha.com/news/local/hundreds-in-omaha-protest-shooting-of-jacob-blake/article_175710ff-8fc0-51e1-a9ce-76f052116069.html
27 PHOTOS HERE: https://omaha.com/news/local/photos-omahans-protest-shooting-of-jacob-blake-by-wisconsin-police/collection_ce932d7d-3fdb-5e74-8b6a-8a6df356fa22.html#1