During a press conference on Tuesday about the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, Kenosha District Attorney Michael Gravely debunked false claims made by the media and activists.
“There are many commands disobeyed and that’s not only talked about by all the officers, but that’s admitted by Jacob Blake in his statements and there are a number of civilians who talk about that as well,” Gravely said
“And there are multiple ways that officers try to bring Jacob Blake into custody, again, none of those I think visible in any of the videos. They try to direct him to the ground, they try to grab, multiple officers try to grab his arms and secure him so he can be cuffed. He admits at one point officers were trying to ‘handcuff me but I was able to get up.’”
“There’s a time where he’s down on the ground … where a really close viewing of it shows Jacob Blake is on top of someone who has to be officer Sheskey based on everyone else and officer Sheskey says, ‘I was on top of him and then he was on top of me as we were grappling for me trying to get him under arrest,’” Gravely continued. “Most importantly, he was tased twice using remote penetrators and once with a direct strike with taser. So, I’m going to suggest to you three attempts were made to tase Jacob Blake to get him in compliance.”
Gravely said that police officers that were involved in the incident indicated that they had never seen a suspect who was not impacted by the use of tasers.
Gravely then debunked a key false claim that was promoted by the media and left-wing activists.
“Very important, Jacob Blake, while actively resisting, arms himself with a knife,” Gravely said. “I continue to hear, I think I heard it at the rally last night, the vigil, where someone again said he was unarmed. It is absolutely incontrovertible that Jacob Blake was armed with a knife during this encounter. Incontrovertible. Most incontrovertible, because Jacob Blake in all of the times he spoke to DCI, admits he possessed a knife.”
The media and left-wing activists continued to make the false claim that Blake was “unarmed” on social media even during the press conference where Gravely said that it was not true.
Notable examples of those who promoted the false claim on Twitter:
- The Washington Post: “Police officers won’t be charged in shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man who was shot 7 times in the back in Kenosha, Wis.”
- CNN Commentator Keith Boykin: “…Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey shoots unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, seven times in the back and faces no charges.”
- NBC News reporter Priscilla Thompson: “No charges to be brought against the Kenosha police officers who shot Jacob Blake an unarmed black man, per the D.A.’s office. The shooting resulted in Blake being paralyzed.”
- ABC 7 reporter Nichole Gomez: “Officer who shot unarmed Jacob Blake will not face charges…”
Gravely also played an audio recording on Tuesday of the 911 call that Jacob Blake’s ex-girlfriend, Laquisha Booker, made to the police.
In the recording, Booker said:
Yes, um, I need an officer to 2805 40th Street unit D … Jacob Blake is here and he has the keys to a rental that I purchased that I need to take back and he’s not trying to release it and on top of that he’s not supposed to be here. Today is his son’s birthday so I allowed him to spend a couple hours with him but he’s not giving me the keys to this rental and that’s all I’m asking for. I never would have called you guys. I promise you I tried to keep from calling you guys. He’s crashed numerous of my vehicles in the past and I literally just bought one, like yesterday, and so just because he heard some false information he’s not willing to give me the keys to this car that doesn’t even belong to me. Me and my sisters just saw him skirt off in it and turn around and come back so I need you guys to come and, I need these keys.
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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