Jacob Blake, the man shot seven times in the back by Wisconsin police on Sunday, was handcuffed in his hospital bed despite being paralyzed and charged with no crime, it has emerged. Mr Blake, 29, had the handcuffs removed on Friday after outrage from politicians and demonstrators alike. The news came as thousands of people gathered in Washington DC to protest against police brutality on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a Dream” speech. Addressing the crowd, the civil rights leader’s 12-year-old granddaughter, Yolanda Renee King, invoked one of the best-known lines of the civil rights leader’s speech, where King envisioned a time his children would “not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character”. “My grandfather predicted this very moment,” she said. “He said we were moving into a new phase of the struggle. The first phase was the civil rights and the new phase is genuine equality”.
