At the beginning of January, the Kenosha County district attorney announced that he would not criminally charge Officer Rusten Sheskey , who shot Jacob Blake in the back multiple times while responding to a domestic violence complaint. Blake was paralyzed from the waist down. The DA said Sheskey’s use of force was acceptable under the circumstances, and that Skeskey had a valid self-defense claim that would prevent the DA from prevailing at trial. Racial justice activists say the decision wasn’t