Police also tried to stop Jacob Blake with a stun gun before he was shot.
Jacob Blake admitted to police before he was shot that there was a knife in his car. This has since been found by the authorities . And so he was unarmed when he was shot by an officer.
These are some of the new pieces of information that police and state prosecutors have provided about the shooting episode that have left the black man Jacob Blake partially paralyzed in a hospital bed after being hit by seven shots fired by a white officer.
The new information has been made available by Kenosha Police Department and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul.
