Jacob Blake's father: "We're not taking it anymore, I ask everyone to stand up"

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Blake, a Black Wisconsin resident who was shot seven times in the back by a White police officer who tried to detain him in Kenosha, is no longer handcuffed to his hospital bed after a warrant for his arrest was vacated. Blake is paralyzed from the waist down and family members said seeing him shackled to the hospital bed was heartbreaking. Jacob Blake Sr. was in Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington and told the crowd, “And we're not taking it anymore, I ask everyone to stand up. No justice, no peace!" He joins AC360 to give an update on his son and says his son asked him why he was shot so many times. Plus, Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, has new audio recordings of her aunt Maryanne Trump Barry, President Trump’s sister, talking about her brother and his family. She tells Anderson Cooper the reason she secretly recorded these conversations was to protect herself and she understands “how this family operates and you need to bring receipts.” Airdate: August 28, 2020 Guests: Jacob Blake Sr. Mary Trump 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	Good evening, what feels like the 10 years or so since the Republican Commission got underway
0:05.2	on Monday, we have seen so much even for these times.
0:07.9	A category for hurricane hit the Gulf Coast.
0:10.1	The loss of thousands more lives, the coronavirus.
0:12.8	The CDC is puzzling and apparently politically driven change in guidelines on testing.
0:17.4	We've seen the misleadingly optimistic announcement as a yet unproven COVID treatment and the
0:23.9	FDA firing today in the wake of it.
0:27.0	So a new estimate that more than a quarter million Americans will die of the virus by
0:30.3	election day.
0:31.3	A million new jobless claims.
0:33.2	And of course, a massive peaceful outpouring in Washington today after this week's police
0:37.4	shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, who's now paralyzed from seven bullets in his back.
0:43.4	57 years, the day since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
0:46.0	spoke to the original March on Washington.
0:48.1	Tens of thousands gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King's son, Martin Luther
0:52.4	King III spoke, so did George Floyd's sister.
0:56.2	He's a real Taylor's mother and Jacob Blake's sister.
0:59.2	We will not be a first door to oppression.
1:04.0	Black America, I hold you accountable.
1:08.7	You must stand.
1:10.5	You must fight, but not with violence and chaos.
1:16.1	Last night, just steps away, accepting his party's nomination for a second term.
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