Kenosha City Council denies award of $50K in damages to Jacob Blakehttps://thepostmillennial.com/kenosha-city-council-denies-award-of-50k-in-damages-to-jacob-blake?utm_campaign=64469The City Council in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has denied a claim from Jacob Blake that sought $50,000 in damages from the city. Blake was shot in August 2020 by police, and suffered paralysis as a result of his injuries. In the wake of that shooting, riots erupted in the city, and many businesses were burned to the ground.
Blake was asking for the coverage of his medical expenses, as well as lost income, and "pain and suffering disfigurement." The City Council did not offer comment, and they did not deliberate on the matter. The unanimous 17-0 vote from the Council came on Monday night.
The suit was filed in March, and though the claim itself was maxed at $50,000, Blake's Chicago based attorneys "Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. also submitted an itemization of 'special damages' in the amount of $776,614.67 resulting from his injuries," according to Kenosha News.
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It was only after the city had been subjected to three nights of rioting, looting, and demonstrations that the story began to emerge that police had been called to the scene by the mother of Blake's children, that there was a restraining order against him, that she was concerned that he was taking their children, and that he had a knife in the car that he was reaching for at the time he was shot.
Even months later, media continued to say that Blake had been killed in the shooting, and painted him as a victim, as opposed to someone on whom police were called while he was violating a restraining order. Officer Sheskey said that he was undertaking to protect the children in the car when Blake was shot.
I'm amazed the city council didn't knuckle under to the shakedown.
