NOTEBOOK: ‘I refuse to let myself get numb’: What to know from Kenosha

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Demonstrators in Wisconsin and around the country are demanding justice after Jacob Blake, a Black man, was left paralyzed after being shot seven times by police in Kenosha over the weekend and two Kenosha-area men were killed during protests following the incident. Here’s what you need to know: 

  • A 17-year-old from Illinois was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide on Wednesday, Kenosha News reports.
  • The FBI will lead the civil rights inquiry into the shooting of Blake, the New York Times reports.
  • “I’m still trembling from every video I’ve seen,” Ayomi Obuseh, an organizer with the youth-led group Impact Demand, told a crowd of a few hundred demonstrators in Madison, Wis., the Wisconsin State Journal reports. “I refuse to let myself get numb.”
  • “Too many officials in too many places failed to act,” the editorial board of the Cap Times in Madison wrote in an opinion piece – “Stop playing political games and address police violence.
  • Des Moines Black Liberation Movement has planned a March on the City Council at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, the group said on Twitter.