Jacob Blake 8-30-2020

 

30, August 2020                     Jacob Blake

 Several videos showed how Kenosha police approach black and white People. The first cellphone images showed officers shooting a black man, Jacob Blake, beside his car while his 3 young children watched in horror, screaming uncontrollably. The second video clip captures a 17 year old gunman identified as Kyle Rittenhouse, interacting with police officers, getting a high five  and accepting water from them after killing two protestors, - brandishing a semiautomatic rifle, illegal at his age in the state.

Another video showed Kenosha police offering militia members’ water earlier in the night and expressing their support for them.

A distraught Blake Sr. choking with rage said his son was shackled to his hospital bed despite being partially paralyzed after the shooting. Many of his organs suffered severe damage.

“The videos capture and illustrate the existence of two justice systems in the United States, divided along racial lines”, sa.id Benjamin Crump, lawyer for the Blake family.

Two situations, one followed de-escalation guidelines, the other rapid escalation resulting in an appalling tragedy.

Rittenhouse was not apprehended but allowed to return home. He was granted a delay on his extradition to Wisconsin until next month.

In an effort to reform the Kenosha police, the ACLU has demanded the resignation of top cops for racism and a brutal response to Jacob Blake protests. This latest shooting has stained the reputation of America as a law abiding country.

A damning video of Kenosha County Sheriff has surfaced from a 2018 news conference, when he described black people accused of shoplifting and crashing a stolen car as “garbage people that fill our communities that are a cancer to our society”.

It is not surprising that a police chief with such visceral hatred of black people would infect the police force under his watch.

It is time this sheriff who does not possess a modicum of decency and his racist underlings be fired and charged with gross misconduct.

Unless the Department of Justice and FBI investigate the Blake shooting and the long history of systemic racism the shooting of Blake will go unpunished. The local DA has been accused of decades of prosecutorial misconduct allowing guilty cops a free pass which has been described a “precinct shuffle”.

Please send donations to the ACLU requesting the money be used in their lawsuit against the Kenosha police, department.