Jacob Blake is handcuffed to his hospital bed, family says
CNN)Jacob Blake, who remains hospitalized after sustaining multiple injuries, is now handcuffed to his bed, his family said.
Blake's uncle told CNN on Thursday that Blake's father visited the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin hospital where his son is recovering from at least one surgery. He was "heartbroken" to see that his son was handcuffed.
"This is an insult to injury," Justin Blake, the uncle of the victim, said. "He is paralyzed and can't walk and they have him cuffed to the bed. Why?"
Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, has spent several days in the hospital. A Kenosha police officer shot him seven times in the back on Sunday while trying to detain him, state investigators said.
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Just disgusting. What are they charging him with???
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...and possibly "attempted murder."
This is based on the officer's assertion that Blake had a knife and was threatening him with it. Don't believe it? Neither do I. But the point is that the police claim it, or they wouldn't have made a public statement to that effect, which makes it near certain, given what we've seen from Kenosha authorities so far, that the local D.A. believes it. And, based on that mindset, what better way to absolve the city of any responsibility than to have Blake convicted and put away for years if not decades, while ruling the officer fired in "self-defense."
