I hate this. I think someone here alluded to the fact that legally speaking, it is difficult to establish whether or not the perpetrator acted with a clear intent to kill or not. Beyond that, his motive, whether it was racially motivated or not, impossible to establish. What I do know is that, ethically, what happened in Kenosha was a travesty. The video alone broke my heart.
There are always going to be small-minded, narrow-minded individuals who want to argue that because Jacob Blake himself was not the most ethical man, it helps the case of the cop. Of course, that is certainly not the case, because every human life is valuable, and nobody deserves to be riddled with bullets in front of their kids, especially when the man did not have a gun and was not holding a weapon at the time he was shot at repeatedly. He had a knife in his vicinity, but not in his hand when he entered the vehicle.
I pray for the day when our police departments can learn how to de-escalate like adults, and not like over armed, steroid-laden man-children who don't deserve to be on the force. Blake is lucky he narrowly survived, but his injuries are extensive. If there is divine justice out there, surely the cop might get some when his time comes. 5 prior internal investigations held against him in one of the most notoriously corrupt police unions in the entire Midwest is a very, very bad look for his character as a person and as a police officer.
We should expect better.
