Man ‘not likely to walk again after police shooting’

Jacob Blake, right, with his cousin Adria-Joi Watkins, is recovering after being shot (Courtesy Adria-Joi Watkins/AP)

The family lawyer for a black man shot by police in the US said Tuesday that Jacob Blake is paralysed and it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again.

The shooting of Jacob Blake on Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, apparently in the back, was captured on phone video and ignited new protests over racial injustice in several cities, just three months after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police touched off a wider reckoning on race.