Read more at sojo.net ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ View this email in your browser [[link removed]] [[link removed]] If Not Now, When? [[link removed]] Terrance M. McKinleyOn Sunday, Aug. 23, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by Kenosha,
Wis., police in broad daylight in front of his three sons, ages 3, 5, and 8. The
bullets damaged Blake’s spinal cord and left him paralyzed. His brutal shooting
has not only left his body broken, but it has also affected the psyche of his
young children — another generation gripped by fear of police.

A year ago, nearly one year to the day, Aurora, Colo., police confronted Elijah
McClain after someone reported him as a “suspicious person” while he was walking
home. He was unarmed and had done nothing illegal, but officers used excessive
force, placing him in a chokehold. Paramedics injected him with ketamine, and he
suffered cardiac arrest. McClain died on Aug. 30, 2019. Officers still have not
been held accountable.

Also on Aug. 24, though several decades earlier, 14-year-old Emmett Till was
falsely accused of offending a white woman — an accusation that two white men
used as reason to torture and murder him. Those men were acquitted and never
held accountable.

We are entering a moment in our nation of overlapping grim milestones.

These tragic dates are punctuated by traumatic deaths and racial violence
inflicted against Black bodies, and the legal system says no one is to blame.

So we protest. But even in our lament, we are brutalized. On Wednesday, Kyle
Rittenhouse, a white 17-year-old, was arrested and charged with homicide in the
killing of two people during the protests. He had traveled to the Kenosha
protests from nearby Antioch with a semi-automatic rifle.

An alarming detail that has emerged is that after these killings, Rittenhouse is seen on video
[[link removed]] walking the streets with his weapon while onlookers shouted he just killed
someone and officers pass him. In Kenosha, it seems a white killer can safely
walk the streets with an assault rifle, while a Black father of three sons lays
paralyzed because an officer used brutal excessive force.

The streets of Kenosha are illustrating for us just how broken our nation is
today.

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