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Correction: Police Shooting-Wisconsin-Handcuffs story

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FILE - In this September 2019 file selfie photo taken in Evanston, Ill., Adria-Joi Watkins poses with her second cousin Jacob Blake. He is recovering from being shot multiple times by Kenosha police on Aug. 23. (Courtesy Adria-Joi Watkins via AP, File)
Vehicles are parked Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis., where Jacob Blake, a Black man, was shot by police on Aug. 23. The city and its surrounding county remained under a curfew amid protest in the city. (AP Photo/ Russell Contreras)

Adria-Joi Watkins

FILE - In this September 2019 file selfie photo taken in Evanston, Ill., Adria-Joi Watkins poses with her second cousin Jacob Blake. He is recovering from being shot multiple times by Kenosha police on Aug. 23. (Courtesy Adria-Joi Watkins via AP, File)

MADISON, Wis. – In a story Aug. 28, 2020, about Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, The Associated Press erroneously reported that police were responding to a domestic abuse call at the time. The officer who shot Blake was responding to a domestic dispute call.

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