"It was a blow to the heart," says LeBron on Jacob Blake shooting verdict

LeBron James called a prosecutor's decision not to file charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in Wisconsin this summer a "blow to the heart and to the gut."

Jacob Blake, who is Black, was left paralyzed after being shot in the back on Aug. 23 by Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey, who is white.

"I'm smart enough to know that even though we are playing a game of basketball that there's so much more going on in the world," James said Tuesday after his Los Angeles Lakers won 94-92 over the Memphis Grizzlies.

So much more that's even more important than us playing a game. To hear what happened in Kenosha today was a blow to the heart and to the gut, not only to that community, but to us and to every Black person that has been a part of this process, seeing these outcomes for so long.

(IMAGE CREDITS:AP)