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Protests break out in Wisconsin over police shooting of Jacob Blake
New York Post ^ | August 24, 2020 | Kenneth Garger

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: bidenrally; jacobblake; kennethgarger; kenosha; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; wisconsin
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To: mylife
A trail is in order, riots are not.

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.

101 posted on 08/24/2020 6:05:07 AM PDT by StACase (CO2 is NOT a Problem)
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To: mewzilla

The perp is not dead.


102 posted on 08/24/2020 6:05:40 AM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Old Yeller

Amazing how this works isn’t it?


103 posted on 08/24/2020 6:06:28 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: central_va

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.


104 posted on 08/24/2020 6:06:44 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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To: StACase

Welcome to the wonderful world of auto correct.


105 posted on 08/24/2020 6:08:27 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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To: StACase

Welcome to the wonderful world of auto correct.


106 posted on 08/24/2020 6:08:27 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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To: pepsionice

The 1st reporting on this said LE were called about a man with a knife......


107 posted on 08/24/2020 6:09:17 AM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: Jrabbit

I have a knife now, shoot me 7 times in the back as I walk away. /s


108 posted on 08/24/2020 6:12:19 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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To: mylife

Why would anyone choose to “live in the hood”?


109 posted on 08/24/2020 6:15:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Iscool

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)


110 posted on 08/24/2020 6:15:04 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Because if he had a gun when he was shot, that’s all we’d be hearing about.


111 posted on 08/24/2020 6:15:38 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: mylife

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.


112 posted on 08/24/2020 6:16:34 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Pravious

What do you expect?
It’s Day 1 of the RNC Convention

Anything to throw shade on police, and therefore Trump

Someone’s FF


113 posted on 08/24/2020 6:18:51 AM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: central_va

It’s not a choice.


114 posted on 08/24/2020 6:29:14 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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To: Guenevere

Just as someone said up thread, in a battleground state.

Relax people, it’s an MSM fire bomb.


115 posted on 08/24/2020 6:31:57 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Is this the guy?

Interesting. Is that really him?

116 posted on 08/24/2020 6:32:29 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: karpov

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.


117 posted on 08/24/2020 6:34:01 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: mylife

You can’t move?


118 posted on 08/24/2020 6:36:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

no.
what are yo gonna do? shoot me in the back?


119 posted on 08/24/2020 6:37:38 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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I have carried guns in the military, and professionally as a civilian, this **** is retarded.


120 posted on 08/24/2020 6:39:48 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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