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2020-08-26 Fifth Column

Kenosha roundup: Wisconsin declares state of emergency amid protests over police shooting of Jacob Blake

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Posted by Fred 2020-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 I don't think insurance companies are on the hook for damage caused by insurrection. Am I wrong?

Posted by gorb 2020-08-26 00:02|| 2020-08-26 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 A Clerihue (of color, even)

Jacob Blake
Was not no fake
But a gangsta tried and true,
And as every nattering newsdrone knows, he matters more than you!

Posted by Gilestavious Corey1692 2020-08-26 02:44|| 2020-08-26 02:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Another, possibly a little too dark for the form.

Jacob Blake!
The earth did quake
And Heaven seethe with thunder
As social contract, temple veil, and truth were torn asunder.

Posted by Gilestavious Corey1692 2020-08-26 02:58|| 2020-08-26 02:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Witnesses to Jacob Blake's shooting have said that police used a Taser and wrestled with him prior to the shooting (and prior to the video being streamed 24/7).

But that apparently doesn't matter.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-08-26 12:38|| 2020-08-26 12:38|| Front Page Top

#5 My understanding is that it started with service of a felony warrant. The cops had knowledge of his priors including violence and some kind of weapons charge. They had every right to suspect after he resisted arrest that he might be seeking a weapon in the car. We don't know if there was a weapon there, but if there was reasonable suspicion in the arresting officers mind, lethal force before being shot is a legitimate reaction. It sounds like the officers followed the traditional escalation of force doctrine to the letter in attempting to effect the arrest. Maybe someone in authority should lay that doctrine and the events that occurred out for the media so they get the justification clearly before they go all BLM again.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-08-26 18:29|| 2020-08-26 18:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Pop Corn was one Bad Dude.
Prosecutors in Kenosha County, Wisconsin charged Blake, 29, with third-degree sexual assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse last month, according to The Kenosha News. An arrest warrant for Blake was issued on July 6.

The newspaper reported that a woman living in the 2800 block of 40th Street told police in May that Blake, her ex-boyfriend, had come into her home and taken her car keys and vehicle. She also said he had touched her sexually without consent.
... Raysean White, the man who filmed the video, said he saw police officers wrestle, punch and user a Taser on Blake moments before he started recording.

"After they punched him in his rib, the female officer Tased him and Jacob kind of leaned on the car and they proceeded to wrestle him toward the back of the car and he went to the other side of the car," he told CNN. "When they were on the other side of the car on the ground, I had to pick up my camera and start recording."

White told the Associated Press that he heard officers shout "Drop the knife! Drop the knife!" before they shot Blake, but said he didn't see one in his hands.

Posted by Clyde Thraiter7206 2020-08-26 20:24|| 2020-08-26 20:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Still from a video showing a guy with something looking kinda knifey over at Second City Cop

Posted by SteveS 2020-08-26 21:15|| 2020-08-26 21:15|| Front Page Top

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