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Jacob Blake and Adria-Joi Watkins

We Stand with Jacob Blake

On Sunday, August 23, 2020, the Kenosha Police in Wisconsin, shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while his children watched. We are well past shock and surprise at hearing news of the shooting of unarmed civilians by law enforcement. The real shock is that these extrajudicial shootings are becoming commonplace. We brace for it. We expect it. We cry out in collective anguish and demand accountability. Accountability that all too often never comes. Pennsylvania State Representative Summer Lee informed us during their Virtual Panel on Police Reform on Wednesday, September 2nd, that it is technically legal for aRead More »We Stand with Jacob Blake