{"id":175633,"date":"2021-01-05T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/05\/the-pigs-walk\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:52:00","slug":"the-pigs-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/05\/the-pigs-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pigs Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kenosha County District Attorney has announced that no charges will be filed against the officers that shot Jacob Blake<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

The prosecutor is claiming that it will be too tough to convince a jury.<\/p>\n

Another corrupt prosecutor covering up for the police:<\/p>\n

The top prosecutor in Kenosha, Wis., declined to bring charges against the police officer who shot and gravely wounded Jacob Blake outside an apartment building in August, an episode that sparked protests and rioting and made the city an instant flash point in a summer of unrest that began with the killing of George Floyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The decision not to file charges against the officer, Rusten Sheskey, was announced on Tuesday afternoon by Michael Graveley, the Kenosha County district attorney. He said that investigators had reviewed 40 hours of video and hundreds of pages of police reports before making the decision.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said a case against the officer would have been very hard to prove, in part because it would be difficult to overcome an argument that the officer was protecting himself. He said Mr. Blake had admitted to holding a knife \u2014 even describing switching it from one hand to another as he moved to open a car door \u2014 and that statements from officers and other witnesses indicated that Mr. Blake had turned toward an officer with the knife immediately before he was shot.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision does nothing but shore up that message that Black people are not safe in the United States of America in 2021,\u201d Corey Prince, chair of the criminal justice committee of the N.A.A.C.P. in neighboring Racine, said Tuesday. \u201cThey continue to devalue Black lives, Black humanity, Black freedom, even when we\u2019re with our kids.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

The case incited emotions in large part because of the gruesome scene captured by a cellphone video: A Black man being shot in the back multiple times as he moved away from the officer. Even those arguing that the officers acted appropriately conceded that law enforcement needed to figure out how to reach better outcomes in such situations. <\/p>\n

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They shot him in the back, but the prosecutor cannot be bothered to even try, because it’s just a Black man, and notwithstanding the protests, Black lives DON’T<\/b> matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kenosha County District Attorney has announced that no charges will be filed against the officers that shot Jacob Blake.  The prosecutor is claiming that it will be too tough to convince a jury. Another corrupt prosecutor covering up for the police: The top prosecutor in Kenosha, Wis., declined to bring charges against the police …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,368,364,407,526,398,582],"class_list":["post-175633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-racism","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}