https://www.thedailybeast.com/kenosha-wisconsin-police-shoot-black-man-as-hes-getting-in-car
https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2020/08/jacob-blake-kenosha-police-shooting-wisconsin-black-man-shot-7-times-getting-into-car/
Jacob Blake Kenosha Wisconsin police shooting of unarmed black man. Father of 3 had gone to break up domestic dispute only to be shot by police officers as protests now swell.
Disconcert has come to the fore after captured video showed Kenosha police shooting an un-armed black man at close range into the man’s back as he sought to enter a parked vehicle outside a Wisconsin residence, Sunday late afternoon.
Jacob Blake, 29, was identified as the black man allegedly being shot up to seven times at close range as he opened a car door. Immediate reports told of the man surviving and taken to an intensive care unit.
Police had been called to a domestic incident in the 2800 block of 40th Street and 28th Avenue at 5:11 p.m. where the shooting later occurred.
Officers provided immediate aid to the shooting victim, who was taken by Flight for Life to Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Kenosha police reported. The shooting is reported to have taken place in front of the man’s three young sons who were in the car.
The man was in serious condition at Froedtert. Social media has since identified Officer Luke Reitruoc as one of the involved police officers.
Shot dead for trying to break up a fight between two women
‘Tonight, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times, in broad daylight,’ Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said in a statement. ‘While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.’
The Kenosha News reported that neighbors said Blake was trying to break up a fight between two women. Bystanders said he was Tased and then shot several times.
A video circulating on social media as first posted by Telicia Phillip shows a man in a white shirt and black shorts walking to a gray van, followed by two male police officers with weapons drawn. The video does not show what happened before the man walked away from the officers, nor what was said, if anything.
As the man opens the door to get in, an officer grabs his shirt to hold him still, then appears to shoot him in the back at close range. Seven shots are heard, followed by a car horn, presumably from the man’s head falling forward. A woman who followed behind the police can be seen screaming and jumping up and down.