Posted on 03/14/2021 5:24:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
On January 5th, Michael D. Graveley, District Attorney of the County of Kenosha, Wisconsin, called a news conference to explain why charges would not be brought against Officer Rusten Sheskey for shooting Jacob Blake on August 23, 2020. During August anti-racism protests in response to a black man being shot seven times by a white police officer, rioting had led to two deaths and to fifty million dollars in damage to over one hundred businesses in Kenosha, including forty that were shut down for good with the loss of many jobs.
Graveley was joined at the podium by Noble Wray, former Madison, Wisconsin Police Chief and head of Police Practices and Accountability in the Obama Administration. An expert in police procedures and an African American, Wray was selected by the Wisconsin Attorney General’s office, which had been mandated by Graveley to review the use of force in that incident.
Both District Attorney Graveley and Noble Wray emphasized that the police had been called by the mother of Blake’s three children, who expressed her fear that Blake was going to take her SUV vehicle and one or more of her children, without her permission. Also, the police were aware that Blake had a warrant for his arrest from a prior domestic abuse incident.
Graveley and Wray asserted that Blake did not comply with the commands of the officers, whom he fought when they tried to arrest him. Twice, they tried to stop him with tasers. Also, according to the officers and other witnesses, he was carrying a knife through most of the confrontation, which had opened with the blade exposed.
The police tried to prevent Blake from getting into the SUV.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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..........these National Networks need to be sued and put out of business for provoking riots that cost billions and that people die in..................
here in MN our governor and attorney general withheld the body cam video of the Floyd arrest, and along with the mayor of Mpls fanned the flames of the rioting that destroyed much of the neighborhood where I raised my family. They along with most of the media need to be charged with deliberately inciting riots and an actual armed insurrection throughout the country.
They have blood on their hands.
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