Black man shot by police ‘paralysed’
KENOSHA/ LONDON: A Black man shot several times by police may be permanently paralysed, his family said on Tuesday, after protesters burned buildings and tore down street lamps in a second night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the incident.
Jacob Blake was undergoing surgery to try to repair nerve damage, his cousin said. “He’s paralysed from the waist down. He hasn’t woken up yet, they’re saying it’s a 50-50 chance he’ll walk away,” Herman Poster said.
It was the most recent in a series of unjustified police shootings of African-americans in the United States. Blake was shot on Sunday by a white policeman while getting into a car.
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The bust of British Museum’s founder Hans Sloane was removed in the wake of the BLM campaign and his links to slave trade. Sloane Square in London is one of several public places named after the physician known as a collector of books, manuscripts and specimens.