This is what Black Lives Matter meant to US police: wait a while, then shoot them in the back
Point blank: (white) Wisconsin police officers were filmed shooting Jacob Blake in the back is he sat in his car. His children, also in the car, saw everything.
So much for all the protesting and solidarity earlier this summer. American police are still shooting to kill black people for no apparent reason.
It seems clear that they will continue to do so until force is used to stop them.
And how can that happen when they have the guns, and the name of the law – if not the letter of it – behind them?
The victim in this instance is Jacob Blake, of, Kenosha, Wisconsin, who was apparently walking back to his car after breaking up a fight between two women when police shot him in the back seven times, at point-blank range.
He may never walk again.
His children were also in the car and saw the police officers shooting their father in the back.
The shooting provoked a mass demonstration in which hundreds of people marched through the streets to gather outside the Kenosha County Public Safety Building, chanting: “No justice, no peace!”
Wisconsin’s Democrat governor, Tony Evers, also condemned the shooting. He said: “Tonight, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times, in broad daylight, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kathy and I join his family, friends, and neighbors in hoping earnestly that he will not succumb to his injuries.”
“While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.
“We stand with all those who have and continue to demand justice, equity, and accountability for Black lives in our country—lives like those of George Floyd, of Breonna Taylor, Tony Robinson, Dontre Hamilton, Ernest Lacy, and Sylville Smith.”
Family members have appealed for “healing”.
It seems clear that systemic racism is alive and well in the US police forces.
They listened and watched while the Black Lives Matter protests against the killing of George Floyd took place around the world – including in the UK – and then they shrugged and carried on shooting black people.
That’s not law enforcement. It’s racism. And if we really want to eradicated it, we need more than honeyed words from old men in expensive suits
Source: ‘I don’t want pity. I want change’: Jacob Blake’s family pleads for justice | US news | The Guardian
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