Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for officers to be charged in Jacob Blake shooting
"We're going to march, were going to protest, nonviolent and disciplined and in big numbers, until these men are in jail," Jackson said of the police officers involved in the incident in which Blake, 29, was shot.
I could be wrong, but it looks like it won't go down that way.
Responding to a 17-year-old white suspect arrested in a shooting at a protest in Kenosha on Tuesday night that left two men dead and one wounded, Jackson said, "White citizens should not provide sanctuary for this kind of killing."
Ballocks.
Showing posts with label Jacob Blake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacob Blake. Show all posts
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Fox goes on offense for Rittenhouse
Accused Kenosha shooter's lawyer claims self-defense amid new video
A 17-year-old charged in two shooting deaths amid a chaotic demonstration in Kenosha, Wis., earlier this week feared for his life after being attacked by rioters who chased and beat him, his attorney said Friday.
In a lengthy statement, the lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse, John Pierce, said prosecutors rushed to judgment in charging his client to appease "divisive" and "destructive" forces without analyzing Tuesday's events.
"This was not a serious investigation," Pierce said.
"Rather, after learning Kyle may have had conservative political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens."
A 17-year-old charged in two shooting deaths amid a chaotic demonstration in Kenosha, Wis., earlier this week feared for his life after being attacked by rioters who chased and beat him, his attorney said Friday.
In a lengthy statement, the lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse, John Pierce, said prosecutors rushed to judgment in charging his client to appease "divisive" and "destructive" forces without analyzing Tuesday's events.
"This was not a serious investigation," Pierce said.
"Rather, after learning Kyle may have had conservative political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens."
Just to clarify
Kneeling on the neck of an habitual criminal for seven or eight minutes until he dies is murder.
Shooting a fleeing habitual criminal to death as he flees when much less force would have worked is murder, even if some cop manual permits or even recommends it.
But I am not on board for the absurd mythology of overwhelming and overwhelmingly powerful racism, systemic or otherwise, exploited and spread every election season by the depraved propaganda of Democrats without concern for its destructive consequences.
And I am even further from on board with condoning or tolerating riots for three f-ing months.
Update 8/30.
George Floyd wasn't killed by Dereck Chauvin. He od'd on recreational drugs. The kneeling had nothing to do with it and was apparently by the book.
Jacob Blake's shooting might have been by the book. Seems he was a fleeing felon resisting arrest and had or was reaching for a weapon.
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Harris on Trump: His plan to kill the payroll tax will kill Social Security in less than two years, and his Justice Department is in court right now trying to kill every bit of Obamacare, including the only protection for people with preexisting conditions
On the wrong side of the Blake affair and the Floyd/BLM riots.
But right on the rest.
Trump plan to scrap payroll tax would reduce benefits by 2021, top Social Security actuary says
But right on the rest.
Trump plan to scrap payroll tax would reduce benefits by 2021, top Social Security actuary says
A different view of the Blake shooting
Brandon Tatum: Jacob Blake Police Shooting Was Justified
Blake was a criminal who was committing crimes, was told to stop, was told he was under arrest, and before trying to flee in his car he had fought with police and been arrested for that.
He and the cops had been rolling on the ground fighting on the other side of the car when he got up and starts walking around the car as we see him doing in the famous video.
There was a warrant outstanding on him, anyway.
He has quite a criminal history.
Now we know why they didn't want to just let him drive away.
We also know why that cop looks so angry.
Blake was a criminal who was committing crimes, was told to stop, was told he was under arrest, and before trying to flee in his car he had fought with police and been arrested for that.
He and the cops had been rolling on the ground fighting on the other side of the car when he got up and starts walking around the car as we see him doing in the famous video.
There was a warrant outstanding on him, anyway.
He has quite a criminal history.
Now we know why they didn't want to just let him drive away.
We also know why that cop looks so angry.
So, does this make it OK to shoot him seven times in the back?
Is that the law?
Tatum is police and he says yes, at that point under those circumstances the police didn't have to wait to see what he was reaching for, if anything, in that car.
It is interesting none of the major media are reporting all this about who Blake is.
This is Brandon Tatum.
A firm Trumpist Republican.
This is Brandon Tatum.
A firm Trumpist Republican.
Pence, GOP overshoot the mark, shoot selves in foot.
NPR plays a clip of Pence last night telling America the riots everywhere must stop, Americans must stop hurting and killing Americans, Biden is complicit with the rioters and will not make Americans safe, but he and Trump will not tolerate rioting and violence and destruction, Trump will put an end to it and make Americans safe!
Vote for Trump and he'll put a stop to it!
NPR interviewer to GOP spokesperson:
Really? Why wait?
Trump is in the White House now and has been for nearly four years, over all the time the rioting has been happening.
It's all happening on his watch. Why wait?
Vote for Trump and he'll put a stop to it!
NPR interviewer to GOP spokesperson:
Really? Why wait?
Trump is in the White House now and has been for nearly four years, over all the time the rioting has been happening.
It's all happening on his watch. Why wait?
GOP talking points urge Joe B was silent on rioting from the outset until just the other night, demanding why he didn't once condemn it all that time.
They are very boldly hanging the riots on the Democrats and Biden in particular.
Blake's lawyer on CNN just minutes ago was angrily complaining Rittenhouse wasn't shot by Illinois police when they arrested him.
My guess he didn't resist arrest.
He's on video trying to surrender to police that night in Kenosha.
Democratic media are absolutely lambasting this kid.
You would think he'd gone into a black church and sprayed the worshippers with gunfire, killing dozens.
Nobody is telling the audience what actually happened, how the shootings occurred.
Not once.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Here's a disparity, if you want one
Took them ten seconds to decide to arrest that 17 year old kid, Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois, and charge him with first degree murder.
They shamelessly threw the book at him.
They have still not arrested Rusten Sheskey, a 7-year-veteran of the Kenosha Police Department who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times.
Blake admitted to police interrogators he had a knife and police say they recovered a knife from under the front seat of his car.
That kid didn't fire at anyone until he, fleeing rioters, fell in the street and the rioters kept on coming at him.
Van Jones on CNN at about 8:15 pm is calling the kid a "lawless vigilante" and no one is criticizing that.
He's called the kid that four times in three minutes.
Rick Santorum is calling the kid a vigilante, too!
If that was self-defense, and the news reports indicate it was, then it doesn't matter why he was there.
He was there legally and he was armed legally.
But even a second Republican is calling his shooting at rioters who were reportedly charging at him a despicable act that must be condemned.
A Fair and Balanced story at Fox News
So, the Democrats are running these riots to destroy the American middle class?
Tucker Carlson: Kenosha riots prove urban unrest is 'class war masquerading as a race conflict'
Carlson pointed out that Kenosha is home to a large Hispanic immigrant population whose members were not seen rioting because working people are meant to work, he said, not start riots.
“As if we needed more evidence that this is actually a class war masquerading as a race conflict,” he said.
“That's exactly what it is designed to [do]: crush America's middle class. And it's working.”
Kenosha storeowners woke up Tuesday morning to their livelihoods destroyed, with one owner saying how “wrong” it is since her business services everyone, regardless of race.
“You can hear the confusion in her voice [asking] 'Why did they do this to me?'” Carlson said.
“And the short answer is because they could. Nobody stopped them from burning down her business or burning down the city.
"The Kenosha County Democratic Party didn't stop them. The Democratic Party of Kenosha decided to embrace the mob.”
Tucker Carlson: Kenosha riots prove urban unrest is 'class war masquerading as a race conflict'
Carlson pointed out that Kenosha is home to a large Hispanic immigrant population whose members were not seen rioting because working people are meant to work, he said, not start riots.
“As if we needed more evidence that this is actually a class war masquerading as a race conflict,” he said.
“That's exactly what it is designed to [do]: crush America's middle class. And it's working.”
Kenosha storeowners woke up Tuesday morning to their livelihoods destroyed, with one owner saying how “wrong” it is since her business services everyone, regardless of race.
“You can hear the confusion in her voice [asking] 'Why did they do this to me?'” Carlson said.
“And the short answer is because they could. Nobody stopped them from burning down her business or burning down the city.
"The Kenosha County Democratic Party didn't stop them. The Democratic Party of Kenosha decided to embrace the mob.”
Is there rioting in any city controlled by local Republicans?
Are there any cities controlled by local Republicans?
Kenosha shooter identified and arrested
Illinois teen charged with homicide in killings of two people during Kenosha protests
If it happened as described in the story he has a pretty good self-defense plea to the seemingly ridiculous charge of first degree murder.
This event adds to the case that several states really need to revisit their carry laws.
They very quickly charged this kid who seemingly fired in self-defense but still have done nothing about the cop who shot Mr. Blake, seemingly out of nothing but rage.
And said nothing.
If it happened as described in the story he has a pretty good self-defense plea to the seemingly ridiculous charge of first degree murder.
This event adds to the case that several states really need to revisit their carry laws.
They very quickly charged this kid who seemingly fired in self-defense but still have done nothing about the cop who shot Mr. Blake, seemingly out of nothing but rage.
And said nothing.
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Jacob Blake's family and attorneys talk to the press
Not a word to them or anyone from the authorities about events leading up to the shooting.
Friends don't let friends do horrible things that can't be undone.
Partners don't, either, you would think.
Why do the cops so often just stand by and watch absolute horrors enacted by cops?
Cops they can see are utterly out of control?
Other cops needed to stop that guy and tell him to have a seat on the ground, give up his weapon, and take a time out to cool off.
And that's true even if Blake had recently done something criminal or provocative.
Would you let your brother, out of control with rage, commit a murder?
Medical update seems to indicate Mr. Blake's spine was severed by a bullet.
Doesn't sound like you come back from that.
Blake was reportedly there to stop a fight between two women.
Still no hint how it went from that to a cop blinded by rage trying to kill him in front of three children, shooting him seven times in the back.
Friends don't let friends do horrible things that can't be undone.
Partners don't, either, you would think.
Why do the cops so often just stand by and watch absolute horrors enacted by cops?
Cops they can see are utterly out of control?
Other cops needed to stop that guy and tell him to have a seat on the ground, give up his weapon, and take a time out to cool off.
And that's true even if Blake had recently done something criminal or provocative.
Would you let your brother, out of control with rage, commit a murder?
Medical update seems to indicate Mr. Blake's spine was severed by a bullet.
Doesn't sound like you come back from that.
Blake was reportedly there to stop a fight between two women.
Still no hint how it went from that to a cop blinded by rage trying to kill him in front of three children, shooting him seven times in the back.
Blake paralyzed from the waist down.
Daytime demonstrations and nighttime riots in Kenosha.
Not a word about the shooting, the cop shooter, the other cops who did not restrain him, or what the hell happened.
Why do we so rarely talk about a rage shooting as this appears to be showing we need unarmed policing to be the norm?
Blake's kids reported to have been in the back seat of that car when he was shot.
Monday, August 24, 2020
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.
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.
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