Kenosha, Wis. police Officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last year, will not face federal civil rights charges in court.
NBC News reports that the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that prosecutors decided against charging Sheskey because they didn’t find enough evidence to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer willfully violated the federal criminal civil rights statutes.”
Sheskey has argued that his actions were justified because he believed that Blake was going to leave with his children and use them as hostages. Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said in January that because Blake had a knife on his person when officers approached him, he couldn’t disprove Sheskey’s claim that he was afraid that Blake would stab him.
tbh no april fools gag tumblr ever pulls will ever be as good as the lizard election of 2016 staff put more effort into that than the rest of this website combined and it shows
for those of you who werent here in 2016 on april fools that year the entire fucking website was transformed and there was an election for a position that wasnt even ever specified and the candidates were four lizards (or three lizards and a salamander as a scandal would later prove) and it was called decision2016
each lizard had their own 3d models and tumblr blog and campaign and there was also a tumblr blog dedicated to reporting on the election and they made like whole ass news broadcasts with a guy in front of a green screen
you could vote for your favorite candidate and there was a built-in function that let you make and post a campaign poster
in case anyone was wondering the winner of the election was mop. relatable and reliable. #Mop Could
