Jacob Blake Family Attorney Provides Update On His Condition

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jacob Blake's family attorney provides an update on his condition. Jacob Blake's father says, "police shooting paralyzed my son." Jacob Blake's family attorney says Jacob Blake is currently in surgery and it is going to take a "miracle" for Jacob Blake to ever walk again. Wisconsin governor declares a state of emergency and increases National Guard presence following protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Jacob Blake's mother calls for calm amid protests. Blake family attorney demands answers and accountability from police. There has been no explanation given from the police for the shooting and two Wisconsin officers have been put on leave. The justice department and FBI are investigating the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Blake family lawyer says that Blake suffered bullet through his spinal cord and has holes in his stomach. The RNC first night speakers attempt to rewrite Trump's record on coronavirus and race as an attempt to paint Biden as a danger to the country. Rep. Castro opens an investigation into the Pompeo RNC speech. Trump is to make multiple appearances in the second night of the RNC. Speakers for the second night of the RNC include the first lady, the secretary of state and Eric and Tiffany Trump. The first lady's chief of staff says, "I can tell you that every word in this speech is from her." To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well that was a very very emotional very powerful news conference of Ben Crump the attorney representing the family of Jacob Blake the young man who was shot in the back at least we're now told seven times by a white police officer in Kenosha
0:15.4	Wisconsin yesterday he's in very serious conditions still going through surgery
0:19.9	may be paralyzed potentially according to Ben Crump for the rest of his life.
0:25.0	They're all hoping for a miracle. We heard from other attorneys.
0:27.5	We heard from several family members.
0:29.5	Omar Jimenez is on the scene for us in Kenosha right now.
0:33.6	Omar, this was very powerful.
0:35.7	These people are understandably, very upset and very angry.
0:41.8	They really are, Wolf. And this was really the first time we were able to hear from the family together as a unit and to hear how they processed what America and the world was able to process only through the lens of a cell phone video and you heard that was the mother of Jacob Blake Julia Jackson finish up and have the last word in that press conference and she had that powerful story that when they visited him in the hotel
1:06.3	room there was an officer in that room and when she was about to pray with
1:10.3	Jacob Blake she says that Jacob stopped, asked if the officer was a man of faith,
1:15.6	and then all three of them prayed together. And that was the message that she was trying to send,
1:20.4	that we need to be better as a people. Now the father was a little bit
1:25.3	more angry and a little bit more emotional over this saying I could only
1:29.2	really describe him as fed up. At one point he was tearing up over the course of this press conference as he tried to grapple
1:35.6	with the fact of how many times his son was actually shot.
1:39.1	He said they shot my son seven times like he didn't matter but then he emphasized my son
1:45.0	matters and so all of that of course we're hearing the details from the family and
1:49.8	then we also learn new details on the medical condition of Jacob Blake because many assumes I think at the beginning being shot seven times in the back from that close that this was someone that was not going to pull through.
2:01.0	He is alive at this point. He's been in the ICU and we learned from his
2:04.5	attorneys that he is in surgery right now, but we also got more detail on how badly he
2:09.8	actually is injured. On top of the damage to his spinal cord.
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