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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The answer is that YOU COULD MOVE BUT YOU DON’T WANT TO. Just admit it.
That seems to be lost on many, even here.
There seems to be some narrative being floated that it’s ok to resist arrest if “you don’t think it’s right”. Wrong. It just escalates things and makes a situation dangerous for everyone. Accept the arrest and deal with it in court.
...otherwise, when the guns get drawn and you attempt to reach into a vehicle - cops had no choice, a second later and they could be getting shot.
...I’ll also note, from the video I’ve seen, that the audio is muted at first - why? What are the cops saying to him? The audio comes on for the shots and screaming.
You mean like all we hear is George Floyd was on Meth and Fentanyl? Riiiiight.
Probably loudly and clearly giving him orders, which he disobeyed.
Yes.
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How long does it take to search a car? I think it's pretty evident that if there was a weapon in the car the police would have been saying so.
...and also looking to see if he was on something.
If he was is that a capital offense?
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If he is still alive Kenosha PD needs new caliber pistols!
Shot at point blank range numerous times.
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Maybe that is why they shot him multiple times- they knew one or two would not be enough...
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One speculation I have is that when the cop grabbed his shirt, it pulled up, and he saw a weapon stuck in the guy’s pants. Maybe a gun, maybe a knife.
Although if either of these were true, I would have through that we would have heard about it within an hour. It is extremely important in these situations to get the truth out before the governor can lie about it.
I wonder what would happen if white people rioted every time a black person shot another black person.
So far, there does not appear to be any video of anything until the cops get there. The STORY is that there was an argument he was breaking up, but I have no reason to believe that story.
Again, there is no independent evidence yet for kids being in the car. Not sure why the person filming didn’t post kids being removed from the car.
On the other hand, maybe when the cop saw a guy with known warrants and a knife in his hand reaching into a car where there were kids, he decided he didn’t want to watch the kids get slashed, and shot the guy.
Elsewhere in the city, dump trucks and garbage trucks that were placed at intersections were lit on fire.
Why were they placed at intersections? Who placed them there?
Or perhaps just a reporter saying something other than what he/she/it intended? Very strange.
SHooting is a deadly game. You expect your first shot to kill someone. Once you decide to shoot, that is the end game, makes no difference if you shoot one time, or 7 times.
The man already resisted the tazor, apparently, and was strong enough to break away from the cop (who admittedly simply managed to grab his shirt.
The cops should NOT have let him get to the car door, and I’m guessing that happened because they were trying VERY hard not to have an “incident”.
I’m beginning to think not. I have a still shot from the video that looks like he’s got a hook knife in his hand. I’ve seen reports they ran his ID< and he had warrants, including for waving a gun around, so they had to assume he would be a person who could have a gun in his car.
The cops were all being passive until the guy reached into his car. Clearly, the cop who vainly tried to pull him back with his shirt was afraid of what he was reaching for.
There is a lot of missing parts to this story. Hopefully, the Kenosha Police Dept. will fill in the blanks soon. It doesn’t take long for a false narrative to become what is believed to be the truth.
Don’t worry, there will be some knuckle-dragging copsuckers for which there is no such thing as a Bad Shoot. Wait for the jackboot lickers to start with “He was resisting arrest”, gravitate to “he was going to his car to possibly get a weapon” and finish their slavering fascist screeds with “cops have a dangerous job”, and then proceed to blame everything except piss poor training and general incompetence for the cops firing before they even knew if he had a weapon in his hand.
No, the ‘cop making it home at night’ is NOT more important than ‘no unarmed citizen being killed’.
Resisting arrest is not a capital crime. Stupid, yes, but anyone justifying it is biggest part of why people are rioting.
“A cop is trained to keep shooting until the threat is completely disabled.”
That is exactly what I’m talking about. That kind of extreme training is wrong, a product of modern safety culture. Cops are well paid to protect citizens, and sometimes that involves risks on their part. But those risks cannot be mitigated in a way that makes everyone else less safe.
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