Truer words have not been spoken!

Has it been reported that Blake looked under the seat?

Or when black man kills a 5 year old white child who was riding his bike on the wrong grass?

Mr Blake is officially a millionaire according to his go fund me page. He will no doubt also get a substantial settlement from his civil case. Hopefully his children will grow up and become successful, law abiding citizens.

Hopefully this type of monetary gain doesn't inspire others to fight with the police. It seems that becoming a dead hero or rich survivor are real possibilities if you fight with the police. If you don't fight you just go to jail and take your chances in court. Mr Blake was looking at a prison sentence for the charges he had already racked up so this may have motivated him to fight with the police?


I'm still open minded and as the facts come in I'll adjust my opinion.

A white guy in a suit would more than likely listen to the police and cooperate. Do not make the police feel threatened. That is they key to all these altercations with the police and it does not matter the color of the suspect's skin.

If you haven't seen Jacob Blake's mother speak at the press conference in Kenosha today, it's worth watching. She said that if her son saw the rioting and destruction of Kenosha, he would not approve. She said that all lives matter. She said we have to stop the hate, that no race is better than any other race. I was so impressed with her words, I wish I would have seen some of those healing words on the national news tonight:
Jacob Blake’s Mother Says Son Would be ‘Unpleased’ by Response to Kenosha Shooting – NBC Chicago

It is as simple as IMMEDIATELY put hands in the air with fingers splayed when LEOs are shouting at you. What is so difficult about that? Don't play with fire and you won't get burned.

Gun control is only favored by those that want to dictate freedom, the government may not always defend freedom and we may be called upon as citizens to set them straight.

Floyd could have died from a fentanyl overdose. Of course he was resisting arrest...

The man with the gun always has the 'right of way!'

Maybe he said to the police “I hear my three year old child crying and I need to check on her”. And he proceeded to the car. You and everyone else here doesn’t have all the facts. We need to see the results of an independent investigation.

I hear what you're saying and agree we need to wait on all of the facts to come in. I will be disappointed if it's proven that Mr Blake fought with the police and ignored their commands while pointing their guns at him so he could check on his kids. I would hope that a parent in that situation would comply with the police immediately instead of escalating things into a deadly situation.

I think those in support of Mr Blake are hoping for something more supportive of his need to do what he did. I also believe that some of his supporters don't need anything else.

I don't see people on this forum changing their minds on this unfortunate event on either side. You either believe a person should always cooperate with the police or you believe that they're situations in which a person can justify the opposite. There's not much chance in changing someone's mind on such a subject matter.

I'm not an expert and offer no studies or facts to support my opinions.

The investigation will determine what actually happened and the guilty party, but in these times with most of us staying home we do have more time for speculations.

When the police say stop you stop. You don't walk away and reach into a car. I feel sorry for his parents, but they should have taught him respect.

Yes, it is. Isn't most of the posts on this blog, someone's opinion?