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Police in riot gear stand outside the Kenosha County Court House
HUNDREDS of protesters took to the streets of Kenosha in the northern US state of Wisconsin on Sunday night after a police officer shot a black man seven times in the back as his three children looked on.
Jacob Blake, 29, is in serious condition in a Milwaukee hospital after the shooting, which occurred in a residential area of the town, which has a population of about 100,000, at about 5pm on Sunday.
Officers had attended the scene in response to a “domestic incident,” a statement from the Kenosha police department said.
Footage filmed and shared on social media shows Mr Blake beside a car, walking away from three police officers, two of whom follow him with their guns drawn, shouting after him. Three or four women are also seen yelling in the video.
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s dissection of William Blake
