Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is prepared to activate 500 National Guard members ahead of a prosecutor’s upcoming decision on whether to charge a police office in connection with the fatal shooting in August of Jacob Blake.
Kenosha police Officer Rusten Sheskey shot Blake seven times on Aug. 23 as he was attempting to get into a vehicle in which his three children were passengers, amid a domestic dispute, according to the Associated Press.
Blake resisted arrest and state investigators later discovered a knife inside the vehicle, authorities said.
The incident sparked days of violent protests, among many across the country this past summer over concerns about police brutality.
In additions to the governor’s decision, the Kenosha Common Council unanimously approved an emergency solution Monday that will go into affect upon county District Attorney Michael Graveley’s announcement any day whether Sheskey will be charged and what those charges will be.
Blake’s father led a march through Kenosha Monday, urging people to “make noise” and be “heard around the world.”
I’ve said it before and will say it again — when the police show up, THEY ARE THE BOSS.
Want to get shot or beat up?
DON’T do what they ORDER you to do.
There must be SOMEONE to be in charge of a situation requiring intervention and we pay the police to be those people.
HE decided to play “bad-ass” with people who truly enjoy encountering people who want to play “bad-ass”. And he endangered his kids doing that, too.
It happened exactly like it SHOULD have happened and that’s why the cop was not charged.
One might have a temper, or not like the police, or be in an overly emotional state, but when a guy wearing a badge tells you to “stop!”, you better understand he has a gun, too. And , at that point, they ARE NOT NEGOTIATING with you.
Or, as I once heard a judge tell a defendant, “when you look for trouble, don’t come to court and complain that you found some.”