If there was one thing you could go back and tell your younger self what would it be? For Jacob Blake, it’s pretty clear he wishes he could change the person he was before the shooting. Blake was shot 7 times in an altercation with Kenosha Wisconsin officers. One bullet severed Blake’s spine and left the 29-year-old paralyzed. Instead, Blake is urging people both young and old to change their lives. He hopes to save them the pain he now feels.
“I just wanna say, man, to all the young cats out there, and even the older ones, older than me, there’s a lot more life to live out here, man,” he says in the video, which was posted to social media.
“Your life,” he continued, snapping his fingers, “and not only just your life, your legs — something that you need to move around and to move forward in life — can be taken from you like this, man.”
“And I promise you, the type of s*** that you’ll go through — staples, I got staples in my back, staples in my damn stomach — you do not wanna have to deal with this s***, man. Twenty-four hours, every 24 hours, it’s pain, it’s nothing but pain. It hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep, it hurts to move from side to side, it hurts to eat,” he added.
“Please, I’m telling you, change your lives, out there” Blake pleaded. “We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people out here, man, because it’s so much time that has been wasted.”
During an attempted arrest last month, Kenosha police shot Blake seven times after he opened his car door and reached inside the vehicle during an attempted arrest, media reports and clips of available video indicate. Officers were initially called on scene to respond to a domestic disturbance.
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#JacobBlake released this powerful video message from his hospital bed today, reminding everyone just how precious life is. #JusticeForJacobBlake pic.twitter.com/87CYlgPDBj
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) September 6, 2020
Last week, Blake’s mother condemned the violent protesters and riots that broke out following the police-involved shooting of her son. She drew a solid line between the shooting of her son and the violent protesters adding that they do not represent her son. Blake’s mother added that Jacob wouldn’t support the protesters either- clearly, she knew what she was talking about.
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