ANOTHER SHOOTING OF A BLACK MAN BY A WHITE COP THAT ON FIRST SIGHT LOOKS BAD

Riots break out in Wisconsin over police shooting of Jacob Blake

By Kenneth Garger and Tamar Lapin

New York Post
August 24, 2020

Anti-police protests erupted Sunday night in Kenosha, Wisconsin, just hours after a police officer was filmed shooting a black man in the back as the man tried to enter his car.

Crowds of protesters first gathered at the scene of the shooting — where 29-year-old Jacob Blake was struck several times in the back and seriously injured — before making their way to the police station, according to local reports.

Footage posted to social media shows protesters banging on the stationhouse window, screaming “Fuck the police.”

Police later deployed tear gas, TMJ4-TV reporter Lauren Linder tweeted.

In another clip posted to Twitter, protesters throw what appears to be Molotov cocktails and bricks toward police standing near a patrol car.

One officer appears to get struck by a flying object, knocking him to the ground.

Elsewhere in the city, dump trucks and garbage trucks that were placed at intersections were lit on fire.

Blake was shot at about 5:10 p.m. local time after police responded to the location for a domestic incident.

The footage of the shooting circulating on social media shows two cops with weapons drawn trailing Blake as he walks to a gray van and opens the driver’s door to get inside.

One of the officers grabs him by the back of his tank top and appears to shoot him at close range. A fusillade can be heard, followed by a car horn, and bystanders screaming.

A family member told Milwaukee’s WTMJ-TV that Blake’s children were in the vehicle when cops shot their dad.

At least half a dozen witnesses told the Kenosha News that the man had been trying to break up a fight between two women. They said cops tased him and that they heard seven gunshots ring out.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a statement Sunday night in support of the victim.

“Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times, in broad daylight, in Kenosha, Wisconsin,” Evers tweeted. “Kathy and I join his family, friends, and neighbors in hoping earnestly that he will not succumb to his injuries.”

Evers also showed support for the Black Lives Matter movement and called for accountability as unrest began to rattle Kenosha.

“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,” he wrote.

“In the coming days, we will demand just that of elected officials in our state who have failed to recognize the racism in our state and our country for far too long.”

The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation will launch a probe into the incident.

EDITOR'S NOTE: “..... who have failed to recognize the racism in our state and our country for far too long.”  The Democratic governor shot his big mouth off before the facts that led to the shooting were known and without a shred of evidence that the cop is a racist.