Kenosha, Wisconsin police are under heavy scrutiny after KPD officers shot unarmed Black man Jacob Blake in the back seven times, severely injuring him. The incident occurred on Sunday evening (August 23) as Blake was attempting to break up a fight between two women.
When police arrived on the scene, neighbor Raysean White was already filming the altercation. As Blake walked toward the driver’s side of his car and opened his door, police are seen closely following him before shooting him seven times in the back. According to USA Today, attorney Ben Crump said in a press conference Blake is now paralyzed from the waist down.
“The medical diagnosis right now is that he is paralyzed,” Crump said on Tuesday (August 25). “It is going to take a miracle for Jacob Blake Jr. to ever walk again.”
Much like the May 25 police killing of George Floyd, the incident has sparked outrage across the country. The Blake shooting is yet another in the long list of unarmed Black men and women shot by White police officers.
50 Cent, who was vocal about Floyd as well, took his sentiments to Instagram for his 26 million followers, writing, “If this wasn’t attempted murder, I have no idea what’s going on.”
Meanwhile, Cardi B also expressed her outrage on Instagram, telling her roughly 74 million followers, “Wow this is SICKENING ! I can’t believe it ! What’s going to be the excuse now ? They just don’t give a fuck nomore ! SOMETHING MUST HAPPEN !Yooo this is insane they really not giving a fuck anymore. Lord please!”
The officers involved in the Blake shooting have been placed on administrative leave. The Wisconsin Department of Justice is leading the investigation and plans to present a report within 30 days.
“They shot my son seven times,” Blake’s father said. “Seven times. Like he didn’t matter. But my son matters. He’s a human being, and he matters.”
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Kenosha is in its second day of protests. By late Monday (August 24), a truck had been lit on fire along with several structures, including a Wisconsin Department of Corrections building and local furniture store.
In addition to 50 and Cardi, several other rappers and celebrities have also voiced their disgust and sadness on social media, including Nas, Beyoncé, DJ Quik, T.I. and Paul Wall. Check out a few of the additional reactions below.
Race wars starting in 3,2,1…
Damn, Charlie Manson actually predicted this… Still a crazy racist mofo but he did predict this would happen.. WTF… Seriously!!!
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This has nothing to do with a black person getting shot by a cop. Nothing. It’s pure politics. The RNC is beating the shit outta the communist twits in the DNC ratings. This was planned from the get go. Look at the timing. This is about the election. BLM doesn’t care when a black man is shot by another black man. BLM doesn’t care when black children get hit by flying bullets in gang wars. BLM has been taken over by white progressive idiots using them like always. BLM doesn’t care that many blacks have been displaced in their own communities due to fires, looting, homelessness and the take over of Latin American illegals like in Compton. Why? Because it’s all about communism, that’s why. It’s NOT about black people. Period. They had eight years to fix this so-called ‘systemic racism’ when Obama and Biden were in office. What happened? Nothing. The Democrats are the enemy. If you can’t see it, you’re stuck on stupid. Wake the hell up. It’s so obvious. These “rappers” are actors put in place to dumb you down and make you stay on the plantation. Don’t be shamed for walking away. You really want to help the black community? Stop voting Dem.
ROAR!! I’m angry and white because I have tiny b@11$ and blacks take all our women and we’re scared of losing all our power…A badge and gun or being a republican is our only defense.
I agree with you, I’m peeing all over my balls right now as we speak. It’s time to stand up while we pee for once
Take all our women? Uh that bigger dick thing is all hoax hey get off the porn it rots your wee braindead brain, why are you racist lets being there, your parents also brainwashed by colorism put a lot of bad and false thoughts in your head since you were a baby boy to hate white people you can go fuck yourself, stay lurking in the shadows hating whitey blaming whitey for all your wrongs in life when will whitey take accountability so my life can finally get better…. you stupid miserable fuck that wont change anything because white people dont hate you rich people hate us all (joos)
You mad? Blakkks like you make me kinda happy when a JB gets gunned tha fxck down 🙂 next black fool to disobey a police command in a couple days just watch what happens. Sleep tight faq I know you never will 🙂
it just amazes me sometimes the sacrifice black democrats will do to try and get gun control legislation through in d.c. among other race related subjects. they are fucking killing themselves in the streets, black people think this is what they have to do by the far left to try and make change. crazy. trump pence 2020.
What are these rich co o n$ doing with their cash? Oh yeah bailing out looters, rioters and thugs who burned down many black owned business in Kenosha. They’re bailing out more criminals. Pay no mind to these fools. Don’t give in to the divide and conquer bullshit. This has nothing to do with any of us.
No one deserves to die PERIOD! With that said everyone needs to find the facts first. He had a rap sheet with violent shit and wasn’t complying. Those two things don’t go together when dealing with cops!
I agree, but the cops didn’t know who he or anybody was upon arrival at the scene or their records. They said he had a knife, told him to drop it and then he reached into his car. Stupid move on his part sad to say he should’ve listened.
Ummm I know Im going to piss people off by saying this but with as crazy and as trigger happy as cops are, The Last Thing you ever want to do is Turn your back to them for one, and secondly get back in the vehicle knowing they waiting for an excuse to kill a nigga. They should’ve tased him instead of resorting to deadly force which is wrong. Both parties escalated the situation but the police definitely were trained to know better and should be held accountable for their actions along with stricter operating procedure on handling confrontation in a non lethal manner.
This goes for ANYONE. Not only cops. If people with GUNS ARE TELLING YOU TO DO SOMETHING, DO IT! Or fight back/shoot back and face the consequences. Real simple. It’s unfortunate when ANYONE dies. Homie was a repeat felon with a history of violence. He knew what was up with the police. People are dumb as fuck to riot over this.
You have a point see the problem to me is these cops shouldnt be trained to kill why did you have to shoot 7 times? Not one shot in the leg to put him down if any shooting was even necessary they treat everyone as if they are Bruce Lee and wouldnt dare get close for possible hand combat, new training needs to be informed, defunding and getting rid of cops is not the answer, what I find sick is all these fake celebrities pushing false narratives we should start a ban on all these clowns as they work for the devil on there soul
Right! Most of these celebs don’t care. Don’t get it twisted though, some do….
This isn’t just about ratings. To the fellow who stated so, the fact still remains there is a social inequality issue between white officers and black people. There needs to be better training, with that said also as a conscious individual you have to think of your family, sure you came to break up an argument but these officers do not know the extent of the issue perhaps so perspectives come into play..you walk away as they point guns at you, to your car. That can cause for alarm and the officers could’ve used non deadly force, their life were not threaten.
That is a miscommunication. It is easy to get angry but we have to use emotional intelligence to fix the issue and that means accountability on both ends because this could’ve been so easily avoided. This is similar to the wendys incident in Atlanta. This issue isn’t the same as George Floyd but still an issue nevertheless.
No one’s really gonna reply to ur statement because you are speaking truth. And these animals don’t wanna hear the truth. The truth offends ignorance but I get brotha. I get you!
Police is telling him to STOP and black dude walks to his car door and opens it and is taking something from the inside (which could have been a gun and both police officers could have been shot dead) and police panic and shoot him 7 times.
When police tells you to STOP you need to fucking STOP and LISTEN to the officers and FOLLOW the officers instructions.
This whole thing started because TWO BLACK WOMEN HAVING DRAMA OVER THE GUY.
BS all day long, white teen goes in black church kill how many people, still alive and even got to stop for food… Fuck that fight for our black people all day long..
Born in Wisconsin am not surprise by this action of the KKK what am surprise at is my white ppl living here who are in “shock” .
Once again the cops got it wrong. Jacob Blake, a world-renowned astrophysicist, was on the brink of a revolutionary scientific discovery. He was in a rush to return to his laboratory. He needed a sharp object to finish his experiment, so he grabbed a knife and ran toward his car. Simple misunderstanding, every single time.
#complyandlive! Endorse that!
Whats disgusting is that they are trying to make every criminal with vast violent history getting shot as a symbol for justice. Just like the guy who shot the 5 year old boy. Then its idiotic hashtags like justice for darius sessoms and free darius sessoms. Its quite frankly absurd, but unfortunately this will never stop because people are just that ignorant
FUCK YOU.
If the police can shoot 7 times every time they fear a black man for being black than the right to bare arms mean that a black man can shoot police every time they pull them over or walk up to them being white. Black people are in fear every time they see the police due to the fact they know they just want to kill them. No justice No Peace
Jacob Blake’s criminal history has nothing to do with this. So you guys need to stop bringing that info the scenario.?