Jacob Blake sends strong video message from hospital bed
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New York — Jacob Blake, the black man whose shooting by police set off protests and prompted visits to Kenosha, Wisconsin, by both presidential candidates, released a video from his hospital bed on Saturday night. Paralysed from the waist down, he described his physical pain and urged people to “change y’all lives out there”.
“Your life, and not only just your life, your legs — something that you need to move around and move forward in life — can be taken from you like this,” Blake said. “We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people because there’s so much time that’s been wasted.”
A police officer shot him multiple times in the back during an incident in Kenosha on August 23. Protests escalated into looting and riots and two days later a 17-year-old from Illinois, Kyle Rittenhouse, shot two protesters dead, the police allege.
Kenosha quickly emerged as one other point of protest since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Protests continued on Saturday night in Portland, the site of often violent demonstrations and counterdemonstrations for three months. The police again declared a riot after protesters hurled Molotov cocktails.
Earlier on Saturday, just north of Portland, a memorial was held for the man fatally shot a week ago after a caravan of Trump supporters went through the city centre, AP reported. Hundreds gathered in a park in Vancouver, Washington, in memory of Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a supporter of a right-wing group Patriot Prayer, AP said. The suspect was shot and killed by police on Thursday.
New York attorney-general Letitia James said on Saturday her office will impanel a grand jury as part of its investigation into the death of Daniel Prude, a black man hooded by Rochester police and asphyxiated in custody earlier this year.
Eleven people were arrested on Friday on charges ranging from rioting to unlawful assembly during a third night of protests in the upstate New York area. A protest held on Saturday drew hundreds of demonstrators, according to an ABC 13 reporter.
More than 2,000 people gathered in New York on Friday, and police used pepper balls, spray and teargas to disperse the crowd, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Rochester erupted last week in protest after the release of police body-cam footage leading to Prude’s death. The day after mayor Lovely Warren suspended the officers ...
“Your life, and not only just your life, your legs — something that you need to move around and move forward in life — can be taken from you like this,” Blake said. “We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people because there’s so much time that’s been wasted.”
A police officer shot him multiple times in the back during an incident in Kenosha on August 23. Protests escalated into looting and riots and two days later a 17-year-old from Illinois, Kyle Rittenhouse, shot two protesters dead, the police allege.
Kenosha quickly emerged as one other point of protest since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Protests continued on Saturday night in Portland, the site of often violent demonstrations and counterdemonstrations for three months. The police again declared a riot after protesters hurled Molotov cocktails.
Earlier on Saturday, just north of Portland, a memorial was held for the man fatally shot a week ago after a caravan of Trump supporters went through the city centre, AP reported. Hundreds gathered in a park in Vancouver, Washington, in memory of Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a supporter of a right-wing group Patriot Prayer, AP said. The suspect was shot and killed by police on Thursday.
New York attorney-general Letitia James said on Saturday her office will impanel a grand jury as part of its investigation into the death of Daniel Prude, a black man hooded by Rochester police and asphyxiated in custody earlier this year.
Eleven people were arrested on Friday on charges ranging from rioting to unlawful assembly during a third night of protests in the upstate New York area. A protest held on Saturday drew hundreds of demonstrators, according to an ABC 13 reporter.
More than 2,000 people gathered in New York on Friday, and police used pepper balls, spray and teargas to disperse the crowd, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Rochester erupted last week in protest after the release of police body-cam footage leading to Prude’s death. The day after mayor Lovely Warren suspended the officers ...