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Social Justice Jacob Blake shot seven times by white cop, paralyzed, may never walk again.

If a + b = c, and c + d = e, then "e" does not exist exclusively without "a", no matter how much you choose to ignore it and want to try to change only "b".
Sure it can..

a == 0
Except in this case, "a" is an actual event and does not equal zero. We can't undo the past, correct?

If a /= 0 , better? ;)
Correct. But we can make it a 0 and move on. Past is the past.
In chemistry it kind of works that way though. The products are consumed by the reaction in whole assuming the reaction is complete and perfect.

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"Your efforts are futile so don't try" would be a better message aimed at the protesters. You'd think they'd learn about the 1960's, the grand failures of the civil rights act, etc. but nope. A lot of protesters think this is some new phenomena, that it is coming to a climax now.

We are revisiting domestic issues because Russia wants to get away with war and conspiring to destabilize the US and the far left are more than happy to let it happen while blaming Trump for Russia collusion. The protesters are just as complicit in the Russian conspiracy as Trump is.
I don't know if Russia or former Soviet countries want to destabilise the USA but China certainly does but the Chinese want to take over the world, and China would love for Biden to become President of the USA.


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Why do you think the media / society wants justice so badly/readily for people who are not upstanding members of society, given that there are many people like Breonna Taylor who were upstanding members of society who need this justice?
I am not sure but the police should have shot Breonna's boyfriend instead. I feel bad that this woman got mixed up into the dangerous world of drug trafficking/drug dealing, and selling out of a home or allowing a dealer to package, or sell drugs out of your home is begging to get arrested.



 

Lawyer says officer thought Blake was trying to kidnap child

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Officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake
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Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey, Jacob Blake

KENOSHA, Wis. - The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last month told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children and that he opened fire because Blake started turning toward the officer while holding a knife, the officer's lawyer contends.

Brendan Matthews, the attorney for Officer Rusten Sheskey and the Kenosha police union, told CNN that when Sheskey arrived at the scene on Aug. 23 in response to a call from a woman who said Blake was at her home and shouldn't be there, he heard a woman say, “He’s got my kid. He’s got my keys.”

Sheskey saw Blake put a child in the SUV as he arrived, but he didn't know that two other children were also in the back seat, Matthews said. He said Sheskey told investigators he opened fire because Blake “held a knife in his hand and twisted his body toward” the officer, and that he didn't stop until he determined Blake “no longer posed an imminent threat.”

Matthews said if Sheskey had allowed Blake to leave and something happened to the child, “the question would have been ‘Why didn’t you do something?’”

Cellphone video captured by a bystander and posted online shows Sheskey and another officer follow Blake with their guns drawn as he walks around the front of the parked SUV, opens the driver's side door and lean into the vehicle. Sheskey, who is white, then opened fire, hitting the Black man seven times and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, according to his family members and lawyer.

The shooting sparked outrage and led to several nights of protests and unrest, including a night in which authorities say an Illinois 17-year-old shot and killed two protesters and wounded a third.


Ben Crump, an attorney for Blake’s family, did not immediately respond to a Sunday email seeking comment about Matthews' interview and his voicemail wasn't accepting new messages. But he previously said Blake was only trying to break up a domestic dispute that day and that he did nothing to provoke police, adding that witnesses didn’t see him with a knife.

Blake's uncle, Justin Blake, said Saturday that the allegation that Blake was attempting to kidnap his own child was false, the Kenosha News reported.

“That’s ridiculous,” Justin Blake said. “It’s gaslighting. Outright lies.”

The bystander who recorded the shooting, 22-year-old Raysean White, said he saw Blake scuffling with three officers and heard them yell, “Drop the knife! Drop the knife!” before gunfire erupted. White said he didn’t see a knife in Blake’s hands.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice, which is leading the investigation, previously said in a news release that a knife was found in the vehicle, but it didn't say whether Blake had been holding it at any point during the confrontation or whether police knew it was there before Sheskey shot him.

In a statement previously released by Matthews on behalf of the police union, Matthews said Blake was armed with a knife but that officers didn't see it until Blake reached the passenger side of the vehicle. As Blake opened the driver’s door of the SUV, Sheskey pulled on Blake’s shirt and then opened fire. Three of Blake’s children were in the backseat.

The mother of the three children, who called police that day, filed a complaint against Blake that had led to felony charges being filed in July accusing him of sexually assaulting a woman in May. Blake, who was wanted on a warrant for those charges when police arrived at the scene Aug. 23, pleaded not guilty to the charges earlier this month via video from from his hospital bed. A trial date was set for Nov. 9.

Sheskey and the other two officers who were at the scene were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

Interesting how it jumps from "tugged on his shirt then opened fire." Why would he tug on his shirt if he saw the knife and then shoot?
 
Why did you feel the need to mention the cops race in the title? The mods in this thread must be some avid CNN watchers.
 
Why did you feel the need to mention the cops race in the title? The mods in this thread must be some avid CNN watchers.
I love CNN. But I also watch fox news at times; the narratives are more interesting than "facts" presented immediately when comparing media events.

CNN is actually quite conservative. "Fake news", "liberal media" are lies spread by Trump and pals.
 
I love CNN. But I also watch fox news at times; the narratives are more interesting than "facts" presented immediately when comparing media events.

CNN is actually quite conservative. "Fake news", "liberal media" are lies spread by Trump and pals.

Lmao! So what are your thoughts about their coverage of Nick Sandman? That wasn't fake news in your eyes?
 
Lmao! So what are your thoughts about their coverage of Nick Sandman? That wasn't fake news in your eyes?
They settled with him. Which means they realized something they did was wrong and they made amends.
Later on CNN aired the Republican Nat'l convention and Sandman talked about his encounter with the fake news and cancel culture.

That's as open platform as you can really hope for.
 
They settled with him. Which means they realized something they did was wrong and they made amends.
Later on CNN aired the Republican Nat'l convention and Sandman talked about his encounter with the fake news and cancel culture.

That's as open platform as you can really hope for.

... so that wasn't fake news?
 
I love CNN. But I also watch fox news at times

I watch them about the same, just to get the opposing views from each. I typically try to avoid both, though, for any type of unbiased reporting. Obviously if either of them is interviewing someone I want to watch, I'll watch that, as well.
 
I watch them about the same, just to get the opposing views from each. I typically try to avoid both, though, for any type of unbiased reporting. Obviously if either of them is interviewing someone I want to watch, I'll watch that, as well.

I used to watch fox News all the time. It's just way more fun than boring cnn or msnbc. :D

I say used to because trump has made it too serious and depressing to continue. :p

These days I don't watch much mainstream news at all. Which is why it cracks me up when Trump supports are like "oh you only believe that cause liberal media makes it look that way!"
 
Again...



shot in the back, unarmed
are we still making excuses guys?


He brought his children to his rape victim's (whom he raped in front of her child) home he fought several police, and being the scumbag of the year brought police to the vehicle his children were in to retrieve a weapon and anyone.......anyone with a braincell is going to defend that rapist psychopath is mentality retarded.
What about the children? You are police and you are going to let him get into a vehicle with children after assaulting police/brandishing a weapon? Lmmfao

Oh no, a violent rapist won't be able to rape anymore women. Oh the tradgedy😞😭
 
I think it's severely exaggerated. I believe that there are absolutely cops that shouldn't be cops out there, but I don't believe that the majority of cops have some vendetta against african americans. By passing down the idea that cops shouldn't be trusted/respected it just perpetuates the cycle.

That's why we have a generation with a hate on for cops. I was raised to respect police and they haven't always been so kind to natives but my father was smart enough to teach us to listen to guy with gun .
Some people just get comfortable being victims even if they cause it by their own circumstances
 
'I shot two white kids': Documents detail aftermath of Rittenhouse fatal shooting, arrest
Rittenhouse's mug shot, taken by Antioch police.

By: Jackson Danbeck
Posted at 6:29 PM, Oct 30, 2020

and last updated 6:56 PM, Oct 30, 2020

ANTIOCH — TMJ4 News has obtained documents that show some of the moments leading up to Kyle Rittenhouse's arrest in the early morning hours after he allegedly shot and killed two protesters in Kenosha. The documents also conclude Rittenhouse did not transport a rifle across state lines.
TMJ4 News has obtained a redacted incident report filed by the Antioch Police Department via the Freedom of Information Act. Following the Oct. 28 decision in the 19th Judicial Circuit, those records could be released to the public.

The 17-page incident report describes the three hours Rittenhouse and his mother spent at Antioch's police headquarters, located in Rittenhouse's hometown, as well as the police department's investigation into the history of two rifles, one of which was allegedly handled by Rittenhouse in Kenosha.
Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless homicide for the shooting deaths of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum during unrest in Kenosha on Aug. 25. On Friday, an Illinois judge granted permission for Rittenhouse to be extradited to Wisconsin to face those charges. The Kenosha County Sheriff confirms Rittenhouse has been brought back to Wisconsin.
According to the incident report, Rittenhouse and his mother arrived at the Antioch police station just after 1 a.m. on Aug. 26 after the Kenosha shooting. Responding officers recounted that the 17-year-old "immediately became emotional" and began crying, saying that he had "ended a man's life," the report states. An officer there noted that Rittenhouse appeared to be wearing the same clothes the officer saw worn by a man involved in the Kenosha shooting via Facebook Live.
Rittenhouse told the officers that he was "hired" to protect businesses in Kenosha during the unrest. Rittenhouse's mother made a comment that Rittenhouse may have hurt a man, and Rittenhouse interrupted her, exclaiming "he's dead," according to the report.

Rittenhouse continued that he attempted to speak with a Kenosha police officer in Kenosha about the shooting on that night, "but was told to go home," the report states. Sometime later, Rittenhouse told the officers that "I shot two white kids," the report states.
Still in the lobby of the police station, Rittenhouse inquired about one of his friends, and his sisters, who were at the family's apartment in Antioch. Antioch police identified the friend, but TMJ4 News has chosen not to identify a person who has not been charged for breaking the law.
Rittenhouse continued that the friend was with him in Kenosha, but at some point that night they had split up. Rittenhouse said his friend "currently had his rifle," the report states.
Rittenhouse and his mother were escorted into an interview room a little over an hour later.
Antioch officers proceeded to Rittenhouse's family apartment and spoke with Rittenhouse's friend and the sisters. When asked, Rittenhouse's friend told the officers that he had Rittenhouse's "AR," saying it was in the trunk of his vehicle. Rittenhouse's friend consented to a search of his car, officers write in the report.
The criminal complaint filed against Rittenhouse reported that the friend in question was the person whom Rittenhouse had called on the night of the shooting.

Later that morning, around 7:45 a.m., Rittenhouse apparently began having trouble breathing, the report states. The Antioch fire department arrived to give aid.
A valid temporary felony warrant for first-degree intention homicide - body only was then filed, and Rittenhouse was booked. A judge then denied Rittenhouse bond.
The next day, Aug. 27, Antioch police arrived at the home of Rittenhouse's friend's stepfather, living in Kenosha. The stepfather told the officers that Rittenhouse's friend had purchased a rifle over a year ago. He said Rittenhouse's friend then purchased a second rifle for Rittenhouse, using Rittenhouse's money. The stepfather told the officers that both rifles were purchased in Wisconsin, according to the incident report.
The stepfather said that when he learned his stepson had purchased the gun for Rittenhouse, he refused to have the weapon stored anywhere other than his locked safe at his home in Kenosha. Following a trip to northern Wisconsin with Rittenhouse and his friend, the stepfather told officers he then locked Rittenhouse's rifle in his gun safe because he was underage.
The stepfather continued that on Aug. 24, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, he decided to transport the rifle from his gun safe into the basement of his residence, to be used for protection. The stepfather later had a phone call with Rittenhouse's friend, who said he and Rittenhouse had been hired as security for businesses in Kenosha, police explain in the incident report.
Two days later, on Aug. 26, when the stepfather said he was preparing to leave Kenosha due to the unrest and the Kenosha shooting, he discovered that Rittenhouse's rifle was no longer in the basement, where the stepfather had left it. The stepfather told Antioch police he believes Rittenhouse and his stepson took the rifle, the report states.

The Antioch police department's incident report also describes another interview between officers and Rittenhouse's friend. In that interview, Rittenhouse's friend said he had been on the roof of a building in Kenosha and did not witness the shooting. He said Rittenhouse had called his friend at some point after the shooting. They met up and drove in the friend's car.
Rittenhouse's friend also told the officers that he and Rittenhouse both had rifles that night. The friend said he had dissembled his rifle, while Rittenhouse left his assembled, both left in the trunk of his friend's car.
As described earlier, Antioch police officers searched Rittenhouse's friend's car. They found both the assembled and disassembled rifles in the truck.
In a third interview described in the incident report, Rittenhouse's friend told Kenosha police detectives that Rittenhouse had obtained his rifle from his stepfather's house before they left for downtown Kenosha. The friend added that he had told Rittenhouse earlier, "in all reality, you are not supposed to have that gun. That gun was in my name."
An investigation by Antioch police eventually concluded on Sept 2. that the friend did buy both rifles, one with Rittenhouse's money. The investigation further concluded that both rifles were purchased in Wisconsin, and that Rittenhouse's rifle stayed in Wisconsin until it was brought across state lines in his friend's car to Antioch following the Kenosha shooting.
But the investigation also noted at the time that there is no evidence suggesting the same rifle was physically possessed by Rittenhouse in Illinois. The rifle was placed by Rittenhouse in his friend's car, and it remained there until the truck was opened by officers the next day.


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