I haven't followed the Kenosha events very closely, but have the basic facts in hand.
1. Disregard of police (and authority generally) is assumed to be perfectly fine now. Jacob Blake is not seen by most media as at fault at all for disregarding police instructions and resisting arrest. Reaching into your car for something which might be a gun, when you just had a hostile encounter with police, and they are telling you to stop, and you ignore them, is a life-threatening act to an officer.
2. What is police procedure in such a case? It seems to me that an officer could fire into the air as a warning shot, first. Then assess Blake's response. Why doesn't that happen? Why shoot 7-8 times?
3. The violent riots against the courthouse are immature and revolutionary. Any acts damaging property or harming people should be charged. The rioters are incoherently at the same time protesting the police for harming individuals without reason, while they themselves are injuring and taking lives without reason. Two wrongs do not make a right. Especially when the first wrong isn't yet proven. Don't take justice into your own hands.
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