New York — Jacob Blake, the black man whose shooting by police set off protests and prompted visits to Kenosha, Wisconsin, by both presidential candidates, released a video from his hospital bed on Saturday night. Paralysed from the waist down, he described his physical pain and urged people to “change y’all lives out there”.
“Your life, and not only just your life, your legs — something that you need to move around and move forward in life — can be taken from you like this,” Blake said. “We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people because there’s so much time that’s been wasted.”..
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