Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden, and I want to welcome you to episode 289 of my podcast.

Who's paying attention?

Well, Jacob Blake, right?

One more time, say his name, Jacob Blake.

He's not dead.

He is paralyzed.

We watch the video of him being held by a shirt and shot in the back

seven times by a cop who interestingly in all the pictures I see of the cop who did the

shooting they show this smiling guy with a bicycle helmet and and don't think that that message is lost,

you know, uh, but anyway, um, you know, and you, you hear all the stories.

Jacob Blake was resisting. Jacob Blake had a knife in the car, blah, blah, blah.

The reason I say blah, blah, blah, the reason I dismiss it is because if you're a cop and there's a bunch of cops around, who knows how many cops were there in Kenosha, Washington, they don't use body cameras or they forgot their body cam or their body cam or their body cam didn't work or whatever it's the same fucking excuse all the time um

even if he did have a knife in the car so you're reaching into your car a cop's pulling you from the

back now even if you had a knife, multiple cops means multiple tasers

that they could have hit him with or subdued him somehow with the Billy Club. They like the

billy clubs, you know? I have a friend from the hood in New York, and his neighborhood was

hardcore, just straight up, hardcore. And his neighborhood was hardcore,

just straight up, hardcore.

And he said, I never forget,

he told me,

he said, man, somebody pulls a knife on you,

you hit their ass with a garbage can.

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