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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nJacob Blake, who reportedly has a record of fighting with police, pulling an illegal gun in a bar to terrorize patrons, and a sexual assault charge, was present at a scene in Kenosha where his defenders say he was trying to break up someone else\u2019s fight. Police arrived on the scene. A bystander\u2019s smartphone camera shows him walking quickly away from police to the door of a car, apparently his own, as cops follow him and one, with drawn gun in his right hand, grabs him by the T-shirt with his left hand. As he opens the door and reaches his arms into the vehicle, that officer fires seven shots, and Blake collapses. His parents have announced that he is paralyzed from the waist down and still hospitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident\ntriggered two narratives. One, which led to protesters and rioters (yes, two\ndifferent things) surging up to Kenosha from Chicago and other places, has led\nto arson, looting, attacks on police, and at least two participants killed and\none seriously wounded. This is the narrative of the innocent good Samaritan,\nunarmed, shot in the back by a white racist policeman for no reason but the\ncolor of his skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However,\nthere\u2019s another narrative: justifiable use of deadly force. Those on that side\nnote that police were yelling \u201cDrop the knife\u201d repeatedly before the shooting, and\nsay some witnesses heard Blake snarl that he was going to get his gun moments\nbefore reaching into the car. One person in cyberspace who goes by the monicker\n\u201cMike the Cop\u201d posted an enlarged still from the video that depicts Blake, the\nalleged victim, holding a knife in his left hand in the moments before the\nshooting. The knife has a curved blade reminiscent of a short scythe. This\nblade style, found on \u201chawkbill\u201d knives and the Indonesian karambit, can be\nparticularly lethal. A man holding one, as close to his victim as Blake was to\nthe officer in the scene video, could turn in as little as half a second and\ndisembowel his target with a low slash or cut the throat with a high one. If he has articulated \u201cI\u2019m gonna get my gun\u201d\nor words to that effect and reaches into his car as seen, well, he\u2019s deadly\ntwice over and deadly force is definitely warranted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While no gun\nwas found, the Wisconsin Attorney General disclosed today that Blake had\nadmitted having the knife, and a knife was in fact recovered from the front\nfloorboard of his vehicle, within easy reach (or drop) from Blake\u2019s position\nwhen he was shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the\nstrife in Kenosha went on, an incident occurred in which three individuals were\nshot, two fatally, by a 17-year-old with an AR-15 who is now under arrest and\ncharged with murder. There are competing narratives on that, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The destruction\nin Kenosha is tragic proof of what happens when people rush to\njudgment\u2026particularly people with agendas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the past, a theme of this blog has been \u201cwait until the evidence is in before jumping to conclusions.\u201d No clearer example comes to mind than the recent officer-involved shooting, and subsequent rioting and deaths in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Jacob Blake, who reportedly has a record of fighting with police, pulling an illegal gun in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}