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 rules apply to blacks and whites equally. Officers command you to stop and listen. Whether they are right or wrong it is not the time to go against it because the consequences can be deadly. Let the court decide but a move like this ahole made will result in being shot. Freepers need to stop apologizing for him. He already had a record of waving guns and threatening people. Put yourself in the cops position. Would you have waited to see what he was getting when he refused to stop and was tazerred? Doubt it.
Yep. As I watched the video the very first time I said to myself, “Why the hell is that guy disobeying cops and walking to his vehicle. And then when he reached into his vehicle I said to myself, is he going for a gun?
Chris Rock made a video about this chit.
“I’m no fan of the police but this shooting was justified, from what I can see in the video.”
Eight times?
In the mean time rioters are carrying guns in Kenosha, along with the usual looting an arson. Here is hoping that leaders in WI can navigate this better than they did in OR and WA.
Feckless, the “You” was not directed at you but Freepers who want to rail against the cops in this situation.
I’d keep my powder dry. The only thing we know for certain at the moment is that the cop killed the perp. That’s it.
Was he hit eight times or were eight shots fired?
stupid black resisting arrest lives actually don’t matter. attitude kills
I'm guessing that while they were shooting this guy seven times in the back the two women were still arguing?
What he said
Watch the video. The guy was still upright even after all those shots were fired.
A capital crime in Wisconsin it seems.
Well they certainly are on face book talking **** now.
Call 'em as you see 'em. And that's how I see it too.
There is nothing in that video clip that looks like the
cop's life was in danger
Didn’t a DNC operative say last week that Wisconsin was the key to the election?
Was there a firearm in the car?
Yep. This is a false flag. Inside job.
Shut up you liberal puke. You have been undermining this website for year. Unfortunately some people don’t realize that. You are a demonrat and some of us know it.
So the guy MIGHT have been going after a gun, but, maybe not...Let's kill him just in case...
Hey look, I'm an avid supporter of that thin blue line but there are some really bad ones out there...And this may not be a bad cop...Just a cop who made a very bad decision...
I suspect this type of activity is part of their training to become police officers...
Another police shooting in a Democrat-Run City.
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