8月23日下午5時，美國威斯康星州基諾沙市的一名非裔美國男子遭警察從背後開槍射擊。
A black man shot in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was left paralyzed and "fighting for his life," his family and lawyers said on Tuesday.
從社交媒體上流傳的視頻片段可以看到，一名非裔男子在一輛灰色的SUV附近走動，三名警察緊跟在他身後，其中一名警察用槍指著該男子的後背。在該男子打開車門準備坐進駕駛座時，靠他最近的那名警察抓住他的背心並開火，視頻中可以聽到至少7聲槍響。而在警察開槍時，這名非裔男子坐在車裡的三個孩子，分別為3歲、5歲、8歲，目睹了全過程。
這名男子之後被證實為29歲的雅各布·布萊克，槍擊雖未致其死亡但至少一顆子彈擊中了他的脊柱。目前，布萊克仍處於重傷狀態在醫院重症監護室接受治療，他的律師表示，他想重新走路需要「奇蹟發生」。
基諾沙警方在事件發生後表示，當地時間8月23日下午5點11分左右，警方接到「家庭事件」報案後趕到了案發地附近。但他們並未具體解釋是什麼引發了槍擊，甚至到底是誰呼叫了警方、在視頻開始前發生了什麼也不清楚。
威斯康辛州司法部在今天早上的一份聲明中表示，參與槍擊事件的警察已被行政休假。聲明稱，該州刑事調查部門正在對這起槍擊事件展開調查，並將爭取「在30天內向檢察官提供事件報告」。
Jacob Blake, 29, a father of six, was struck from behind at point-blank range in a hail of bullets fired on Sunday by police who were following him with guns drawn as he walked away from officers to his car and opened a door to the vehicle.
Three of his young sons inside the automobile – aged three, five and eight – witnessed their father being gunned down, according to civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the Blake's.
Crump and another lawyer for the Blake family, Patrick Salvi II, said bullets shattered some of Blake's vertebrae, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down – possibly permanently. He also suffered gunshot wounds to his stomach and gastrointestinal tract, requiring surgeons to remove most of his colon and small intestine, and sustained damage to his kidney, liver and one of his arms, they said.
Video captured by a neighbor shows Blake walking toward the driver's side door of his SUV, away from two officers who were pointing guns at his back. After he opens the door and leans into the car, seven shots ring out, with one of the officers tugging at his shirt.
The shooting is under investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which has not released any details. Kenosha police have referred all questions to the state investigators.
Flares are seen near Kenosha County Sheriff vehicle during a protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., August 25, 2020. /Reuters
毫不意外地，這一事件在威斯康星州引發了大規模抗議示威。
23日晚，數百人匯聚在基諾沙市的公共安全大樓前喊著口號與警方對峙，警方隨後發射了催淚彈，驅散人群。
而後基諾沙政府宣布24日晚8時開始實施宵禁令，但抗議者並未遵守，而是上街遊行。數小時後，原本和平的示威活動演變成暴力活動，示威者們在城市裡縱火。當地政府稱，當晚發生了超過30起縱火事件。
25日，事態升級。威斯康辛州州長宣布該州進入緊急狀態，並將把當地國民警衛人數增加到250人。
Police in riot gear skirmished after dark with about 200 demonstrators defying a dawn-to-dusk curfew outside a courthouse and an adjacent park in the downtown area of Kenosha, a city of about 100,000 people about 40 miles (about 64 kilometers) south of Milwaukee.
Several military-style armored patrol vehicles were seen maneuvering around the county courthouse, firing tear gas at the crowd, many of whom hurled water bottles, firecrackers and other objects back at police.
The disturbances came hours after Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency and vowed to deploy additional National Guard troops in a bid to restore order in the town, while the mother of the man who was shot, Jacob Blake Jr, publicly appealed for calm.
事件發生後，布萊克的家人曾透過媒體向大眾發聲。
社交媒體上，人們也紛紛站出來聲援布萊克。
著名非裔人權運動家馬丁·路德·金的女兒柏妮絲·金周日晚間發推表示，「我們不應該再看到一段黑人被警察殘忍對待或槍殺的視頻，這顯然是一種過度的、無根據的暴力行為。」 ↓↓↓
NBA著名球星勒布朗·詹姆斯也在推特上疾呼：「又一位非裔被當成了靶子，這是過於錯誤和悲傷的！」 ↓↓↓
代理喬治·弗洛伊德案件的美國民權律師班傑明·克倫普分享了案件視頻，並稱：「三個孩子在車裡目睹警察向他們的父親開槍，他們的心靈將永遠受到創傷。」 ↓↓↓
民主黨總統候選人喬·拜登24日發聲，稱涉事警察「必須承擔責任」，要求對此事立即進行「全面、透明的調查」。
「今天早晨，整個國家醒來，卻再次陷入悲傷和憤怒之中——又一名黑人美國人成為過度暴力的受害者」拜登說，「這些槍擊刺穿了這個國家的靈魂。」
至於共和黨候選人，美國現任總統唐納·川普，則使用了一種更為間接的方式表態——他在推特上呼籲俄勒岡州長和波特蘭市長，立刻調集國民警衛隊，制止所謂的「和平示威」，並呼籲人們「回到現實」。