(Newser) – Family members of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was paralyzed after a Kenosha police officer shot him in the back, are leading a march and rally Saturday to call for an end to police violence, the AP reports.
Event organizers said the demonstration would include a march to the Kenosha County Courthouse in Wisconsin and speeches by members of Blake's family, Lt.
"We are heartbroken and enraged, but we are steadfast in our demand for justice," Tanya Mclean, a Blake family friend who helped organize the event, said in a statement.
She said Blake's shooting is not an isolated incident, but part of a "brutal, racist system."
