{"id":16510,"date":"2020-09-07T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16510"},"modified":"2020-09-07T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:40:52","slug":"stick-together-jacob-blake-tells-supporters-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16510","title":{"rendered":"US attorney, Benjamin Crump post a Jacobs Blake video on twitter tells supporters &#8216;Stick together&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot in the back seven times by a white officer during an attempted arrest in Wisconsin last month, called on supporters to &#8220;stick together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a video from his hospital bed, the 29-year-old said he is in constant pain and &#8220;it hurts to breathe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty-four hours, every 24 hours it&#8217;s pain, it&#8217;s nothing but pain. It hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep, it hurts to move from side-to-side, it hurts to eat,&#8221; said Blake.<\/p>\n<p>The video was posted by his family&#8217;s attorney, Benjamin Crump, on Saturday and it has more than 555,000 views so far.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JacobBlake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JacobBlake<\/a> released this powerful video message from his hospital bed today, reminding everyone just how precious life is. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JusticeForJacobBlake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JusticeForJacobBlake<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/87CYlgPDBj\">pic.twitter.com\/87CYlgPDBj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AttorneyCrump\/status\/1302398977938161667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to say, to all the young cats out there and even the older ones, there\u2019s a lot more life to live out here man, please, I&#8217;m telling you, change your lives out there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people out there, man, because there&#8217;s so much time that&#8217;s been wasted,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>A video that has circulated widely on social media showed Blake walking away from police as they attempt to apprehend him with guns drawn.<\/p>\n<p>They opened fire after Blake opened the driver&#8217;s side door of an SUV and began to enter the vehicle with his back facing the two officers on Aug. 23 in Kenosha, a city in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting ignited nationwide protests against police violence and racism, which came months after the police killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd was suffocated to death on May 25 when then policeman Derek Chauvin crouched on his neck during his arrest in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read also<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/police-shooting-leaves-black-man-critically-wounded\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot in the back seven times by a white officer during an attempted arrest in Wisconsin last month, called on supporters to &#8220;stick together.&#8221; In a video from his hospital bed, the 29-year-old said he is in constant pain and &#8220;it hurts to breathe.&#8221; &#8220;Twenty-four hours, every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16515,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16510\/revisions\/16515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}