‘My son matters’: Jacob Blake’s family calls for officer’s arrest, peaceful protest

Shooting in Kenosha, Wis., drives new round of protests across the U.S.

KENOSHA, Wis. — Anger-fueled protests radiated across the nation Tuesday as the family of a 29-year-old Black man shot in the back by police in this lakeside city demanded swift action to bring officers to justice.

In a highly emotional appearance two days after the shooting, Jacob Blake Jr.’s parents and siblings called for healing and peace following consecutive nights of violence. Julia Jackson, Blake’s mother, asked for Americans to show “how humans are supposed to treat each other.”

But the family also pinned responsibility for Blake’s grievous injuries on what they called a racist law enforcement system that brutalizes Black people, and expressed dismay that his shooter had not yet been fired or charged.
They spoke as Blake — who was shot at least seven times, the bullets piercing his spinal column, shattering vertebrae and shredding vital organs — underwent emergency surgery. The shooting left the father of five young children, three of whom witnessed the incident, paralyzed from the waist down.

“It is going to take a miracle for Jacob Blake Jr. to ever walk again,” said the family’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump.
“They shot my son seven times,” said Jacob Blake Sr., his father, at a news briefing on Tuesday afternoon, growing emotional as he spoke. “Seven times. Like he didn’t matter. But my son matters. He’s a human being, and he matters.”

That grim late-afternoon prognosis came as this modest Midwestern city of 100,000 prepared for a possible third night of violence and as cities nationwide braced for their own unrest.
An American summer ushered in with a mix of peaceful mass demonstrations and destructive riots in response to the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd appeared poised in the waning days of August to close with a similarly potent blend.
“I want them to stop killing us. Period,” said Tarcia Parker, a 36-year-old Black woman who works in health care and who was protesting late Tuesday afternoon in Louisville, a city that has its own high-profile shooting victim at the hands of police, Breonna Taylor.

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‘My son matters’: Jacob Blake’s family calls for officer’s arrest, peaceful protest

Shooting in Kenosha, Wis., drives new round of protests across the U.S.

‘My son matters’: Jacob Blake’s family calls for officer’s arrest, peaceful protest

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