Rusten Sheskey, the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times at point blank range paralyzing him, is back at his old job without even so much as reprimand. Sheskey returned to work at the beginning of the month.
Although the DA declined to charge Sheskey back in January, it is customary for a police officer who has been involved in this kind of act to never work in law enforcement again. Not so in Kenosha.
Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis said of Sheskey, “He acted within the law and was consistent with training.”
How exactly is shooting someone in the back at close range consistent with police training let alone acting within the law?
If the Kenosha police teach their recruits to shoot people in the back at close range then I would be a lot more scared of law enforcement than I would be of criminals if I lived in Kenosha, especially if I was African-American.
If shooting people in the back at point blank range is consistent with Kenosha PD police it reinforces the argument I made last August that the Kenosha PD should be disbanded and rebuilt.
The reinstatement of Officer Sheskey to the Kenosha PD is an affront to decency. The police are here to serve and protect. They can do neither so long as the likes of Sheskey are allowed to return to the police force without consequence.
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