The lawsuit, which only names Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer Rusten Sheskey as a defendant, argues that the shooting “was carried out with Blake’s malice, obstinacy and reckless indifference to rights”.
CNN contacted Sheskey and the Kenosha Police Department for comment, but received no response immediately.
The lawsuit asks for compensation “at fair and fair value, sufficient to indemnify [Blake] for the injuries he sustained, in addition to a substantial amount of punitive damages. “
CNN reported that Sheskey told investigators shortly after the incident that he used deadly force during the chaotic encounter because he was afraid that Blake, in trying to escape the scene, was trying to kidnap a child in the back seat of the vehicle he was driving.