| | A woman called the police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, regarding Jacob Blake.<ref name="What We Know about the Jacob Blake Shooting">[https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/what-we-know-about-the-jacob-blake-shooting/ Verbruggen, Robert (August 27, 2020)] National Review, retrieved August 27, 2020</ref> After Blake was, according to [[National Review]], "physically scuffling with [police] officers,"<ref name="What We Know about the Jacob Blake Shooting" /> the twenty-nine year old Blake was shot while going toward his vehicle.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/us/jacob-blake-struggling-police-officersshot-new-video-shows Steinbuch, Yaron (August 25, 2020)] Fox News/New York Post, retrieved August 27, 2020</ref> It was later discovered that a knife was present in Blake's car.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/us/blake-had-knife-in-car-when-kenosha-cop-shot-him-wisconsin-doj Casiano, Louis (August 26, 2020)] Fox News, retrieved August 27, 2020</ref> | | A woman called the police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, regarding Jacob Blake.<ref name="What We Know about the Jacob Blake Shooting">[https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/what-we-know-about-the-jacob-blake-shooting/ Verbruggen, Robert (August 27, 2020)] National Review, retrieved August 27, 2020</ref> After Blake was, according to [[National Review]], "physically scuffling with [police] officers,"<ref name="What We Know about the Jacob Blake Shooting" /> the twenty-nine year old Blake was shot while going toward his vehicle.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/us/jacob-blake-struggling-police-officersshot-new-video-shows Steinbuch, Yaron (August 25, 2020)] Fox News/New York Post, retrieved August 27, 2020</ref> It was later discovered that a knife was present in Blake's car.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/us/blake-had-knife-in-car-when-kenosha-cop-shot-him-wisconsin-doj Casiano, Louis (August 26, 2020)] Fox News, retrieved August 27, 2020</ref> |
| | When protesters gathered in downtown Kenosha after the Aug. 23 police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, three banners were clearly visible at the head of the several-hundred-strong crowd: the bright red FRSO banner, the green banner of the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and the smaller black flag of New Students for a Democratic Society—probably the local University of Wisconsin—Parkside branch. | | When protesters gathered in downtown Kenosha after the Aug. 23 police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, three banners were clearly visible at the head of the several-hundred-strong crowd: the bright red FRSO banner, the green banner of the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and the smaller black flag of New Students for a Democratic Society—probably the local University of Wisconsin—Parkside branch. |