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Jacob Blake is handcuffed to his hospital bed, despite being paralyzed from the waist down afterbeing shot seven times by policeon Sunday, his father said. “I hate it that he was laying in that bed with the handcuff onto the bed,” Blake’s father, also called Jacob Blake, told the Chicago Sun-Timesafter visiting his son on...

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