The ripple effect from Jacob Blake's shooting by Kenosha, Wis., police reached the NBA's Disney World campus in Florida soon after cellphone footage of the shooting began circulating on social media this weekend, but it led to a historic moment Wednesday when the Milwaukee Bucks refused to play their playoff game against Orlando.
Wednesday's events, which soon included the postponement of all three games on the league's playoff slate, followed days of impassioned statements by players and coaches around the league about the relationship between Black people and police in the United States.
It also came more than two months after numerous NBA players questioned whether they wanted to take part in the league's restart at all, out of concerns it would draw attention away from the reckoning on race ongoing throughout the country.
Cellphone footage showed Blake, a Black man, walking around the front of his parked SUV in Kenosha, with three officers behind him, pointing their weapons. As Blake entered the vehicle, the pop from seven shots were heard on the video.
Reports from Wisconsin said that Blake had been attempting to break up a disagreement in his neighborhood before police arrived. Blake's partner, Laquisha Booker, told WTMJ-TV that the couple's three children were in the SUV at the time of the shooting.
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