Jacob Blake
Lawyers for Jacob S. Blake, Jr. on Friday filed a stipulation to dismiss their lawsuit against Rusten Sheskey, the police officer who shot Blake seven times in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Aug. 23, 2020. U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller dismissed the case as requested on Monday.
From the judge:
On May 6, 2022, Plaintiff and Defendant signed and filed a stipulation of dismissal of the action with prejudice and without costs. ECF No. 32. The Court will adopt the parties’ stipulation. Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(ii).
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that the parties’ stipulation of dismissal, ECF No. 32, be and the same is hereby ADOPTED; and
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this action be and the same is hereby DISMISSED with prejudice and without costs as to all parties.
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The shooting in the summer of 2020 followed just months after George Floyd’s murder sparked nationwide protests. Blake’s shooting sparked similar protests, but there was also deadly violence.
Blake first filed suit in March 2021, claiming: “Throughout the entire course of all seven shots being fired, Plaintiff BLAKE was moving away from – and not toward – Defendant SHESKEY into a seated position, as evinced by the fact that the t-shirt Plaintiff BLAKE was wearing was continuously stretched by Defendant SHESKEY’S grasp of it, even after the seventh shot occurred and Plaintiff BLAKE’S spinal column was severed.”
Law&Crime reached out to Blake’s attorneys Patrick Salvi, II, Ben Crump, and B’Ivory Lamarr for comment. Salvi is the attorney who signed the stipulation.
This is a developing story.
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