'It's pain, it's nothing but pain.' In his first public comments about being shot seven times in the back and paralyzed by a Wisconsin police officer, Jacob Blake describes the pain he endures and how his life changed in the snap of a finger.
"I just want to say, man, to all the young cats out there, and even the older ones older than me, it's a lot more life to live out here, man. Your life and not only just your life, your legs, something that you need to move around and move forward in life, can be taken from you like this, man," he says snapping his right fingers.
Once on the scene, officers said they tried to arrest Blake and deployed a Taser in an unsuccessful attempt to detain him, the department said. Investigators said Blake walked to his vehicle,"opened the driver's side door, and leaned forward," before Sheskey, who is white, fired seven shots into Blake's back, according to the agency.
Blake also added a message of hope that his ordeal will bring people together to turn his tragedy into something positive."Please, I'm telling you, change y'all lives out there," Blake said."We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people out here, man, 'cause it's so much time that has been wasted."
The agency said Blake told officers that he had a knife in his possession. Investigators said police later recovered a knife from the driver's side floorboard of Blake's vehicle. The Wisconsin DOJ has not said whether Blake was holding that knife during his interaction with police.
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