Kenosha police union tells the other side of the story

Before anything was known about the Jacob Blake shooting that took place in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the media and folks on the left, but I repeat myself, blamed the police faster than a traffic light going from red to green and a New York cabbie blowing his horn.

The Kenosha police union issued a statement Friday on the police shooting of Blake, an incident last Sunday that sparked protests, rioting and violence in the city during the week that led to at least two deaths.

Authorities stated that Blake, 29, was shot in the back seven times by Kenosha police Officer Rusten Sheskey while being taken into custody and obviously resisting arrest.

 On Friday Blake remained paralyzed in a Kenosha hospital.

Bystander video showing only the tail end of the incident set off violent protests, and on Tuesday night, a 17-year-old male from Illinois allegedly shot two people who were allegedly trying to do him bodily harm, and the young suspect also wounded another man, who apparently struck him with a skate board as he laid on the ground. That man nearly had his arm blown off, but latest reports say that it has been saved.

The Kenosha police union said that Blake was "armed with a knife" and "forcefully fought" with cops, putting one of them in a headlock, according to Brendan Matthews, a lawyer for the Kenosha Professional Police Association, who told this to Kenosha News.

The original story was that Blake, after he got loose from the cops and went to the driver's side door of his vehicle and reached in, was going for a knife on the floor. However, state investigators said that Blake had a knife "in his possession" and it was later recovered from the floorboard of his vehicle. So this appears to be a "good shooting" in that the police were totally justified to shoot as he posed an imminent threat to their lives.

The cop who shot Blake was identified as Officer Rusten Sheskey, a seven-year veteran of the Kenosha PD.

Matthews said that the officers, who were there to arrest Blake, first tried unsuccessfully to subdue him twice with stun guns.

Blake’s lawyer claimed his client was trying to break up a domestic dispute before his arrest and he was unarmed at the time, but it was later discovered that the police had been called on Blake by an individual with whom he had a previous incident.

The police union statement added that most accounts of the shooting were "wholly inaccurate" and "purely fictional,” according to Kenosha News.

“The purely fictional depiction of events coming from those without direct knowledge of what actually occurred is incredibly harmful, and provides no benefit to anyone whatsoever, other than to perpetuate a misleading narrative,” Matthews stated.

“Mr. Blake was not unarmed. He was armed with a knife. The officers did not see the knife initially. The officers issued repeated commands for Mr. Blake to drop the knife. He did not comply.”

The 20-second, poor quality video, shot by a bystander doesn’t show what led up to the shooting and Wisconsin authorities have given few details.

Blake's uncle, who was not at the scene and was talking through his hat, reportedly called the police union's account "garbage" and insulting."

What's insulting is how the left wants to defund the police across the nation, as this puts the lives of people, particularly poor people in poor neighborhoods, in danger.


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