What are we looking at?

What it looks like is an enraged cop follows closely until he loses it and pumps seven shots into the guy.

You be the judge.

Protests in Wisconsin after video appears to show police shooting Black man in the back

A black man, Jacob Blake, in white tee and shorts with empty hands walks around the front of a car and gets in, followed all the way by a uniformed white cop, not identified in this story, two or three feet behind him, seemingly holding a gun with both hands at arms' length pointed at Mr. Blake's back.

Maybe it's me but I think the cop looks furious, determined, and grim.

There are a few bystanders shouting a bit.

As Blake gets closer to the driver's seat door the cop gets closer to him.

The picture cuts out for three or four seconds just after Blake opens the door and gets into the driver's seat of the car, with the cop now so close he seems to be pushing Blake inside.

The cop has his left hand on the frame of the open car door.

In some other videos I have seen it looks like the cop has grabbed the white tee at the moment when the videoed action stops.

And then in the Guardian's video with no picture you hear gunfire. Seven shots.

You don't see anyone firing at anyone.

The picture comes back and the door is still open, though not as wide, and the cop still has his left hand on it.

You hear the car horn start blaring and people screaming.

Somebody's voice goes "Wow".

There is no hint why the video stops just before the shooting and starts up again immediately after.

You absolutely infer from what you see that the cop shot Blake in the car seven times, just after he got into the car.

We at no time see inside the car.

In the instant after the video stops and before the first shot Blake could have pulled a weapon from under the seat, from the glove box, or from elsewhere.

Or not.

There does not seem to be a lot of time for that.

The shooting starts almost immediately once Blake gets into the car.

Other stories on line say the cops were not wearing body cams.

What's the backstory?

All the Guardian has is this.

Kenosha police said officers responded to a reported domestic incident at 5.11pm in the city before the shooting occurred.

I have seen other versions of the video on line but all of them miss the actual shooting.

All stop where this one does and some do not resume after the shots are fired.

Blake is hospitalized, seven shots were fired as reported in several accounts.