The 29-year-old was seriously injured when a policeman fired seven or eight shots at him.
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Jacob Blake, the young black man who was shot multiple times in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin, said “it hurts to breathe” and was in constant pain in a video message from his hospital bed.
Despite his injuries, which will likely leave him paralyzed from the waist down, Blake told his fans that “there is much more life to live.”
“Your life, and not just your life, your legs, something you need to move and move forward in life, they can take you away like that, man,” Blake said, snapping his fingers, in the posted video. Saturday by your attorney Ben Crump.
Wearing a hospital gown, Blake said he had staples on his back and stomach.
“Twenty-four hours, every 24 hours is pain, it is nothing but pain,” he said.
“It hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep, it hurts to move around, it hurts to eat,” he said in the video, which has more than 400,000 views on Twitter.
#JacobBlake released 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 tell them, change your lives out there. We can stick together, earn some money, make everything easier for our people, man, because so much time has been wasted.”
The 29-year-old was seriously injured when a police officer fired seven or eight shots at him while trying to get into his car on August 23 in Kenosha, in the state of Wisconsin, in the midwestern United States. Three of his children were in the car at the time.
The scene was filmed by bystanders and the two police officers who were trying to stop or arrest Blake were suspended.
Three months after George Floyd’s death, the Blake shooting has triggered a new round of demonstrations in several cities.
The protests in Kenosha began peacefully the night Blake was shot, but escalated into violence for several nights in a row.
It culminated on August 25 when two people were shot and killed. A 17-year-old white Trump supporter was arrested and charged with murder.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke with Blake by phone Thursday and met with his family.
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