Kenosha police union gives its account of Jacob Blake shooting

A 20-second video shot by a bystander doesn’t show what led up to the shooting and Wisconsin authorities have given few details

 

The Kenosha, Wis., police union issued a statement Friday on the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an incident last Sunday that sparked protests and rioting in the city this week that led to at least two deaths.

Authorities have said Blake, 29, was shot in the back seven times by Kenosha police Officer Rusten Sheskey while being taken into custody. 

On Friday he remained paralyzed in a Kenosha hospital.

Video of the incident shot by a bystander set off violent nightly protests -- including Tuesday night's unrest, in which a 17-year-old from Illinois allegedly fatally shot two people and wounded a third.

In Sunday's incident, Blake was "armed with a knife" and "forcefully fought" with officers, putting one of them in a headlock, Brendan Matthews, an attorney for the Kenosha Professional Police Association, said Friday, according to Kenosha News.

State investigators, however, said Blake had a knife "in his possession," and it was later recovered from the floorboard of his vehicle, FOX 6 of Milwaukee reported.

Matthews said officers first tried unsuccessfully to subdue Blake with stun guns.

The police union statement added that most accounts of the shooting were "wholly inaccurate" and "purely fictional,” Kenosha News reported.


“The purely fictional depiction of events coming from those without direct knowledge of what actually occurred is incredibly harmful, and provides no benefit to anyone whatsoever, other than to perpetuate a misleading narrative,” Matthews stated.

“Mr. Blake was not unarmed. He was armed with a knife. The officers did not see the knife initially. The officers issued repeated commands for Mr. Blake to drop the knife. He did not comply.”

The 20-second video shot by a bystander doesn’t show what led up to the shooting and Wisconsin authorities have given few details.




Editor Note


If jacob blake had a knife, fought with the police and put one of them in a head lock I can understand why he was shot. He was armed and a threat to the police and others.

Cell phone videos most of the time don't show the whole story before, during or after something.

Cell phone videos are like sound bites that can easily be taken out of context.

Geroge floyd had cell phone videos taken of him before, during and after his arrest.

These videos did not show the whole story of what happened.

George floyd had a lethal dose of  Fentanyl.


George Floyd had a significant dose of fentanyl in his system, a drug 50 times more powerful than morphine and which is known to cause respiratory distress. He combined it with meth and marijuana. It just strains credulity to claim that this played no role in his death whatsoever.


He was seen standing up telling the offers he could not breath because of the fentanyl which supresses the breathing process.

Floyd stuck the drugs up his rear end trying to hide the drugs. This is why he was saying he could not breath before the cops put him on the ground. Floyd would not comply with officers when told to get into the police car.

The officers did not know he had stuck a lethal dose of fentanyl, meth and marijuana up his rear before they arrested him.

Cell phone video did not show this.
 

Floyd's death has been ruled a homicide.

The autopsy report from Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office concludes the cause of death was "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression."

Cell phone videos are like a snapshot picture that does not tell the whole story.

Only part of the story which is then manipulated by the mass news media, blm etc to incite the public for political purposes.

FAKE NEWS and shapshot cell phone videos are joined at the hip and are used to deceive the public in most cases.