ATLANTA (AP) – Eight people were arrested Tuesday night after an Atlanta police precinct was damaged during a protest over the police shooting of a black Wisconsin man, authorities said.
Protesters gathered at Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta around 8 p.m. to show their support for Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old who was shot multiple times – apparently in the back while three of his children looked on – by a Kenosha police officer Sunday.
A family attorney on Tuesday said Blake was paralyzed, and it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again. Kenosha police have said little about what happened, other than that they were responding to a domestic dispute.
Atlanta police told news outlets that the group marched from the park to the Zone 5 precinct, taking with them police barricades and scaffolding from a nearby construction site and placing them in the roadway.
Police said a window was shattered at the precinct and someone spray-painted a wall. According to the station, a police officer stepped in to stop the spray-painter and a crowd of protesters swarmed around them and protesters threw fireworks at officers. Officers in riot gear then stepped in and broke up the crowd.