The police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, was followed by the killing of two protesters, allegedly by a white vigilante
Early in the week, events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in America’s midwest, might have been remembered mostly as yet another shooting of an African American man by the police after a white officer fired at least seven bullets at Jacob Blake’s back, in front of his three young children.
By the end of the week, a different but no less disturbing image was also stamped on the national consciousness. Of the police allowing a white agitator carrying a semi-automatic rifle to walk away having allegedly killed two people and gravely wounding a third, after individuals presenting themselves as vigilantes swaggered close to those chanting support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Continue reading…The police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, was followed by the killing of two protesters, allegedly by a white vigilanteEarly in the week, events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in America’s midwest, might have been remembered mostly as yet another shooting of an African American man by the police after a white officer fired at least seven bullets at Jacob Blake’s back, in front of his three young children.By the end of the week, a different but no less disturbing image was also stamped on the national consciousness. Of the police allowing a white agitator carrying a semi-automatic rifle to walk away having allegedly killed two people and gravely wounding a third, after individuals presenting themselves as vigilantes swaggered close to those chanting support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Continue reading…