The 29-year-old man was seriously injured when a police officer fired seven or eight shots at him.
Washington:
Jacob Blake, the young black man repeatedly shot in the back by a white Wisconsin policeman, said “it hurts to breathe” and that he was in constant pain in a video message from his hospital bed.
Despite his injuries, which will likely leave him paralyzed from waist to toe, Blake has told his supporters “there is a lot more life to live.”
“Your life, not just your life, your legs – something you need to move and get on in life – can be taken away from you like this, man,” Blake said snapping his fingers in the video posted Saturday by his. lawyer Ben Crump.
Dressed in a hospital gown, Blake said he had staples on his back and stomach.
“Twenty-four hours, every 24 hours, it’s pain, it’s just pain,” he said.
“It hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep, it hurts to move from side to side, it hurts to eat,” he said in the video, which has more than 400,000 views on Twitter.
#JacobBlake posted this powerful video message from her hospital bed today, reminding everyone how precious life is. #JusticeForJacobBlakepic.twitter.com/87CYlgPDBj
– Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) September 6, 2020
“Please, I’m telling you, change your lives there. We can stay together, make some money, make it all easier for our people there, man, because there is so much of time that was wasted. “
The 29-year-old man was seriously injured when a police officer fired seven or eight shots at him as he tried to get into his car on August 23 in Kenosha, midwestern Wisconsin. Three of her children were in the car at the time.
The scene was filmed by passers-by and the two police officers who tried to stop or arrest Blake were suspended.
Three months after George Floyd’s death, Blake’s shooting sparked a new round of protests in several cities.
The protests in Kenosha began peacefully the night Blake was gunned down, but descended into violence for several consecutive nights.
It peaked on August 25 when two people were shot. A 17-year-old white Trump supporter has been arrested and charged with murder.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to Blake by phone on Thursday and met his family.
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