Kenosha, WI – A lawyer for the officer who shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake in August said his client believed at the time that the suspect was trying to kidnap his own children.
Attorney Brendan Matthews, who is representing Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey, told CNN that when officers arrived on the scene on Aug. 23, a woman said “he’s got my kid, he’s got my keys.”
Matthews said that if Officer Sheskey and his partner had allowed Blake to drive away with the children in the car and something bad had happened, “the question would have been ‘why didn’t you do something?'”...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that dispatchers said the woman who called 911 had told them Blake “isn’t supposed to be there and he took the complainant’s keys and is refusing to give them back.” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
DCI said the 911 caller told the dispatcher that Blake had been her boyfriend, according to the statement.
The dispatcher advised the responding officers that there was an alert for a wanted person at that address.
Matthews said that the officers knew before they arrived on the scene on Aug. 23 that Blake had an active warrant for domestic violence charges for an attack on Booker that occurred in May, the Kenosha News reported.
He was wanted on charges of third-degree sexual assault, trespassing, and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse that occurred at the same address, according to Newsweek.