Posted on 08/24/2020 4:07:09 AM PDT by karpov
Anti-police protests erupted Sunday night in Kenosha, Wisconsin, just hours after a police officer was filmed shooting a black man in the back as he tried to enter his car.
Crowds of protesters first gathered at the scene of the shooting — where 29-year-old Jacob Blake was struck several times in the back and seriously injured — before making their way to the police station, according to local reports.
Footage posted to social media shows protesters banging on the station house window, screaming “F–k the police.”
Police later deployed tear gas, TMJ4-TV reporter Lauren Linder tweeted.
In another clip posted to Twitter, protesters throw what appears to be molotov cocktails and bricks towards police standing near a patrol car.
One officer appears to get struck by a flying object, knocking him to the ground.
Elsewhere in the city, dump trucks and garbage trucks that were placed at intersections were lit on fire.
Blake was shot at about 5:10 p.m. local time after police responded to the location for a domestic incident.
The footage circulating on social media of the shooting shows two cops with weapons drawn trailing Blake as he walks to a gray van and opens the driver’s side door to get inside.
One of the officers then grabs him by the back of his tank top and appears to shoot him at close range. A fusillade can be heard, followed by a car horn, and bystanders screaming.
A family member told Milwaukee’s WTMJ-TV that Blake’s children were in the vehicle when cops shot their dad.
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Sometimes typos cause confusion. Yes after he is charged with attempted murder
(Here's hoping Jacob Blake doesn't die) a T R I A L is in order, not riots.
The perp is not dead.
Amazing how this works isn’t it?
I live in the hood.
Police are for filling out reports, we can handle local disputes ourselves, bad people get shot good people don’t.
Welcome to the wonderful world of auto correct.
Welcome to the wonderful world of auto correct.
The 1st reporting on this said LE were called about a man with a knife......
I have a knife now, shoot me 7 times in the back as I walk away. /s
Why would anyone choose to “live in the hood”?
See the video on post#73 (scenario which is why they did what they did. You are on with training) and my post#76 (Human factors affecting police response)
Because if he had a gun when he was shot, that’s all we’d be hearing about.
The video shows him opening the door and reaching in head-first with both hands extended (vs. “trying to enter”). Perhaps the cop had reason to think he was reaching for a weapon.
What do you expect?
It’s Day 1 of the RNC Convention
Anything to throw shade on police, and therefore Trump
Someone’s FF
It’s not a choice.
Just as someone said up thread, in a battleground state.
Relax people, it’s an MSM fire bomb.
Interesting. Is that really him?
If they keep going with this crap they are going to definitively push Wisconsin into the Trump camp like they may have already done in Minnesota.
You can’t move?
no.
what are yo gonna do? shoot me in the back?
I have carried guns in the military, and professionally as a civilian, this **** is retarded.
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