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Initial Jacob Blake Reaction

#kenosha #JacobBlake #police Welcome back to Fate of the Union. It’s been a little bit since we last talked, so let's take a look at some of the biggest stories in the country, and the fate of the union. First, we need to talk about the latest disputed police shooting. This comes out of Wisconsin. This is from Matt Walsh over at the daily wire. “Protesters” in Kenosha, Wisconsin burned, pillaged, destroyed, and stole, all in the name of justice, of course. The most disturbing incident was the violent assault of a police officer, who was hit directly in the head with a brick during the melee. The excuse being offered for this latest round of chaos is the police shooting of a man named Jacob Blake on Sunday. At this point, not much is known about the circumstances surrounding the shooting, but a video shot from a house across the street has gone viral and prompted the widespread rioting.” Multiple media outlets are reporting that police arrived at the scene in response to a domestic disturbance. They tried to arrest Blake in connection with multiple alleged crimes including sexual assault. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that “Online court records indicate Kenosha County prosecutors charged Blake on July 6 with sexual assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse,” the outlet reports. “An arrest warrant was issued the following day.” Blake not only resisted arrest but also could not be subdued even by taser. After that, Blake disregarded police orders despite them also having their guns pointed at him, and instead walked around the front of his car and reached inside the drivers door. At that point officer unleashed seven shots. Blake is reportedly still alive but in critical condition. Blake has a criminal history and one that includes an incident in 2015 where he needed to be subdued by police after pulling a gun in a bar. Records also reveal Blake was arrested in 2013 in Round Lake Beach and criminal trespass to a vehicle and arrested in 2012 in Zion, Ill. for domestic battery, endangering the life and health of a child and driving under the influence. It’s also worth noting something about the sexual assault charge. There’s been a claim flying around the internet about Blake being guilty of staturory rape of a minor. But I believe that references the wrong law. You can see the stat rape charge is actually located in a section of law apart from the more general rape charges in Wisconsin criminal law section 948.02, as opposed to Section 940. Furthermore, I was able to source the law being used to justify the stat rape charge and it’s actually a Rhode Island law, not Wisconsin. Blake’s charge is more of a broad charge, and more along the general lines of what most people would think rape is, without the attendant circumstances of age or anything else added onto the factual background case. We now know from the state’s initial investigation that a knife was indeed found on the car floorboard at the scene of the crime, so it appears that item in Blake’s hand is actually a knife as originally suspected. What we are more certain of is that while the children in the car having to witness this shooting is itself, Blake has ample opportunity to avoid this fate. He disregarded officers’ warnings numerous times and proceeded to walk back to his car. He then walked around the front of the car, beginning to get out of officers line of sight. There are also reports that he had a knife on him, and you can see him holding an item in the video. If we are, in fact, met with a case in which officers were attempting to arrest Blake, he resisted arrest including a taser, and disobeyed police orders as he reached into the car, then we again see a case in which the facts simply do not add up to an unjustifiable shooting by the police. Similar to the Rayshard Brooks case, it is not whether one personally agrees with the officer thinking he’s in danger, or if one would have acted the same way; instead, we must ask ourselves could an officer in the situation reasonably think his life was in danger when faced with the supposed threat. When facing a suspect who appears to have a knife, resists arrest and a taser shot, and disobeys officer long enough to reach into his car, I think you have to arrive at the conclusion that the officers reasonably though their lives were in danger. You have a suspect who clearly doesn’t think anything of disregarding officers and resisting arrest, and now he is reaching into his car for who knows what. Even though seven shots may sound excessive and the kids being in the car is dangerous in itself, an officer could reasonably conclude Blake posed a deadly threat after repeatedly resisting officers and then reaching into the car despite officers orders to stay still. But as has too often become the case, the further destruction of these communities will be the uncalled for response when faced with a police shooting under any circumstances, justified or not.