Why was Jacob Blake being arrested? Time to get real.

  The facts and fiction surrounding Jacob Blake.

UPDATED:

There are a lot of false versions of what took place going around and I honestly believe that is by design. I have read versions of this story that suggest that he wasn't committing any crimes and that he was just present to brake up a fight, that he had no weapons, and that he was just leaving as he figured the police had the situation handled and that he was therefore, free to go. 

I have also read that he was just present, and black and therefore the police tried to arrest him on a whim. 


The problem is, this is not even remotely accurate. 

The police were called to the residence by a woman who told the dispatcher that he was there and was not supposed to be there. And that he had taken her keys and would not return them. Why was he not supposed to be there? Turns out the reason was because he had a restraining order against him for domestic abuse, and rape. With an active arrest warrant. So in other words no he was in fact guilty of a crime when the police arrived by violating that restraining order. And he had an active warrant against him for 3rd degree sexual assault, domestic abuse, disorderly conduct, and trespassing. From CNN:

Source: CNN 


"Kenosha officers were called to a domestic incident about 5:11 p.m. Sunday, police said. A woman called saying "her boyfriend was present and was not supposed to be on the premises," according to investigators from the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation.
In a police call, a dispatcher names Blake and says he "isn't supposed to be there" and that he took the complainant's keys and refused to leave. The dispatcher later explains she doesn't have more details because the caller was "uncooperative."

So no. The man was not just randomly being arrested for being black and present. He was in violation of a restraining order for raping and abusing one of the women present. He took her keys and would not return them. Details of the criminal complaint can be found in his arrest warrant here: 




UPDATE: The criminal complaint was further corroborated by this series of tweets from a relative of the victim here: 


  

Controversy surrounding the arrest and shooting...

Details of what took place are still coming together. But one of the problems with the nature of the internet when it comes to news and the already hysterical state of affairs when it comes to police shootings is that people were quickly lining up to use this incident as more evidence to justify their feelings on the issue of police shootings. The first video that was circulated by the public shows Jacob Blake walking around the front of his vehicle with police pursuing him on foot with their guns drawn. He is clearly being ordered to lay down on the ground the entire time, and being ordered not to go back into his car. He does so anyway which prompts the policeman to shoot him in the back 7 times at point blank range. He appears to of been carrying something in his hand that depending on what photo you look at looks like a knife. 

Reaction to the first video...

As seems to be the norm now when it comes to police shootings, depending on your political leanings you will either jump to confirmation bias that the police are wrong, or jump to confirmation bias that police are right. There is very little clear and independent thinking going on. So the kinds of things I read or heard were suggestions of "Why didn't they try and tackle him?" and "Why didn't they tase him?" and from people on the pro-police side saying things like "Why was he resisting arrest?" 

The problem is, both tackling and tasers had been tried, and failed. But nobody knew that yet as this next video was not being circulated yet.

Reaction to the second video? 

The situation is now so emotionally heated that all rational discourse about the topic seems impossible to find. On the right you have people basically saying case closed. On the left you have people emotionally calling anyone who says anything other then that this was a horrible case of attempted murder by police a racist and evil person. Like Cenk from TYT. People are so deeply entrenched in their views and at this point have personally invested so much in their insults and posturing on this issue that pride is involved. 

The other thing that kind of disturbs me is the total silence from the feminist activists who I have in the past heard say all rapists should be brutally punished and that we should believe all women. Well, the guy had a restraining order against him, and stands accused of rape and domestic abuse. 

There are a lot of people talking about whether or not he deserved what happened to him. One of the issues I have seen trying to talk to people about this topic is how little people really know about policing and what police shootings look like. I realized I should know more about this myself before I started talking about it. Novel concept I know. So I discovered a channel called "PoliceActivity" on youtube where you can watch hours of footage of what police shootings look like. Checkout that channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/PoliceActivity/featured

Anyway, I found a clip from another video that perfectly illustrates why police don't let suspects who are resisting arrest go back into their vehicles. And why they don't hesitate to shoot if you attempt to do so. 



I have watched an extended version of that clip that shows these two officers try to use tasers and wrestle with this guy for quite a while before this clip starts. There are MANY more videos like this. But people who are anti-police don't really spend much time trying to understand their point of view. In fact during protests the protesters are being instructed not to speak to officers and even more so confronted if they do. There seems to be an active effort to alienate leftists from the police entirely. I wish I could say there was not an agenda behind that. My instincts tell me otherwise. 

    The discussion on social media gets ridiculous pretty fast...

There is a lot of discussion of "Police are not judge and jury!" and "Not complying with orders is not a reason to be killed!" 

Police order you to get on the ground and put your hands behind your back so they can arrest you with as little danger to YOU and to THEM as possible. 

Suspects who refuse to do this demonstrate time and again an intention to escape even if they have to kill people to do so. People who refuse orders not to go into their cars, pockets, etc are behaving in a manner consistent with what happens when someone plans to shoot the police officer. 

So when you refuse to obey orders that include demonstrating that you are not a threat by keeping your hands visible, getting on the ground and putting your hands behind your back, not going into your car, and not reaching into your jacket you are sending signals to the officer that you are a threat. It's really that simple. 

They didn't order you to buy them a soda and then shoot you when you refused. They ordered you to follow instructions to make the arrest as safe for you as it is safe for the officer. 

Officers who have to make the decision to shoot have less then a second to do so, or die. Their lives and often the lives of other victims in the situation are at stake. 

Jacob Blake didn't have to be shot... 

He absolutely could of chosen not to resist arrest when the police were wrestling with him behind the car. 

He absolutely could of chosen to get down on the ground and put his hands behind his back at literally any moment before he was shot. 

He absolutely could of chosen not to open his car door and bend down in a manner consistent with someone who is reaching into their vehicle for a weapon.  

All of that was completely in his control. He chose not to. Why? Because he was a rapist, and domestic abuser who didn't want to go to jail. Plain and simple. Not because he was an oppressed minority being unjustly profiled and targeted for random violence. Because he was a rapist, and domestic abuser violating a restraining order that a woman got against him out of fear for her life. Believe all women. Right? 

A lot of the arguments in this situation lead me to see that people seem to want a situation wherein if a suspect simply decides to leave a situation the police should not pursue them. If they want to just get in their car and leave you should just let them go. 

And until they are actively trying to kill you that you should not be allowed to shoot them. (Some of them I feel hate police so much at this point they think the only just outcome would be for all criminals to simply shoot police.) 

In this scenario if you are a policeman responding to a call because a man with a warrant is harassing a woman who has a restraining order against him and he resists arrest you should just let him go on his merry way and absolutely should not shoot him even if he is behaving in a way that is typical to someone who is about to retrieve a weapon and shoot officers and possibly the victim. 

A lot of people are also suggesting that if he were white the police would not of shot him. On that Police Activity channel I linked above you can find plenty of footage of white people getting shot when they foolishly don't obey commands. You can also find footage of a lot of cops being shot when they hesitate to respond fast enough when a criminal intends to shoot them. 

The GoFundMe that was put up by Jacob Blake's mother has raised over two million dollars as of me writing this blog article. Getting shot for resisting arrest because he didn't want to go to jail for rape and domestic abuse made Jacob Blake a rich man. And canonized as a martyr and saint by the racial activist movements. Riots are ongoing with looting and destruction of property over the "injustice" and people are saying his name during protests. 

Let me make a suggestion. If we were not in a situation now with racial activism reaching fanatical and "Witch hunt" levels of irrational thinking and a man broke into a woman's house, raped and abused her and then returned later and violated a restraining order to take the woman's keys I don't think anyone would be batting an eyelash that he got shot. And as a father who's daughter was raped and had to endure what it was like waiting for the police to catch the man who did it I am kind of astonished that nobody is talking about the victim in this situation. 

The woman he raped and abused. I guess her life doesn't matter? 










 






 




Comments

  1. His reason for being wary about getting into a police car with cops is he was in the process of stealing a woman's car, violating a restraining order from the same woman whom he had raped and abused.

    Is it optional for a rapist, car thief and domestic abuser to be arrested because he is concerned he might end up like George Floyd?

    Think very carefully about this.

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  2. He may be a bad egg, and a particularly bad one to boot, But there's still no reason an unarmed cretin should be shot 7 times, in the back. And let's be clear about something here: had the local cops and justice dept. been doing it's job almost all of this could have been prevented. Why IS a convicted rapist out running around harassing his victim? The fact remains that an unarmed man was gunned down from behind and this is a problem. I'm sorry those same cops were not able to assist in a better way, but how is martyring a cretin helping ANYONE?

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