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Jacob Blake himself blows up ‘unarmed’ media story
In his first television interview since he was shot in the back by police, Jacob Blake admitted that he not only possessed a knife during the shooting, but also ‘dropped it’ before picking it up again. has. ‘I realized I dropped my knife, had a small pocket knife. So I picked it up after I got off him because they tapped me and I fell on top of him, “Blake told Michael Strahan in an interview broadcast on ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) on Thursday. “I should not have picked it up, just considering what was going on,” he continued. “At that point, I did not think clearly.” Earlier this month, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said he would not file charges against Officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot Blake seven times, as the officer acted in self-defense against an armed attacker. Blake has also been arrested in the past for resisting the police with a knife. Blake’s confession contradicts previous statements by his family and lawyers, who denied he had a knife in his possession when police shot him on Aug. 23, in an incident that erupted from a call of 911 by the mother of Blake’s children, who police said Blake tried to drive away with her rental car with two of his sons. “My son did not have a gun,” Blake’s father told the Chicago Sun-Times for a Aug. 25 story. Patrick Salvi Jr., a lawyer for the Blake family, told CNN on August 26 that Blake did not have a knife in the car. “Witnesses confirm he did not have a knife and did not threaten officers in any way,” Blake’s attorney, Ben Crump, said in a statement released on August 27. on charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct and third-degree sexual assault, which the operator handed over to the response officers. With the outstanding criminal charges, the police are required by law to arrest Blake. In the interview with GMA, Blake also claims that ‘I did nothing, so I did not feel that they were there for me’, although investigators later found that Blake had looked at his own warrant before the arrest of a police officer. website and sent a text stating the warrant. ABC did not mention any fact in the interview. The shooting went viral on social media after it was videotaped, showing officers yelling at Blake to ‘drop the knife’. In the days that followed – which included deadly violence, riots and looting – the Department of Criminal Investigation in Wisconsin’s Department of Justice revealed that Blake admitted to having a ‘knife in his possession’. But much of the main press continued with the initial claim that he was ‘unarmed’. “The governor of Wisconsin called on the National Guard on Monday to quell unrest after police shot an unarmed black man in the latest incident this summer to call for injustice and divide a nation over the urgency of substantially enforcing fundamental change. to bring, “the members of the Washington Post told five people on August 24. The Post suffered a setback earlier this month after upholding Blake’s “unarmed” description in reporting on the government’s decision not to file police charges. Although the story corrected the story, one story published on January 5 is still referred to by Blake as ‘unarmed’. (Update: the story has now been ‘corrected’ by the newspaper, but it reads'[w]While his family said he was unarmed when police shot him, prosecutors said the video showed evidence that he was holding a knife. ‘contradiction. In the days after the shooting, CNN ran several articles describing Blake as “unarmed” that had yet to be corrected. “The video shows police shooting unarmed black man” is a current link to an August 24 segment hosted by CNN anchor Jake Tapper. In a USA Today fact-checking titled “Jacob Blake did not swing a knife, got a gun before Kenosha police fired”, he said that “Blake did nothing in the video taken by bystanders , did not ‘swing’, even though he noticed that the clip “shows something in Blake’s hand, but the resolution is low, so it could be a knife.” But rather than issuing a correction or withdrawal on January 5, PolitiFact only updated the report with an editor’s letter stating that prosecutors revealed that ‘Blake was armed with a razor blade’ when he was shot by police . ‘The explanation? “It does not affect the rating of this article, because ratings are based on what was known at the time.” In other words, this was previously true.