NBA players for Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics ‘could BOYCOTT playoff game over Jacob Blake shooting’
NBA PLAYERS for the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics “could boycott their playoff game over the shooting of Jacob Blake.” The teams are scheduled to play Game One of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Thursday night. The players are expected to meet again tonight, according to a journalist for EPSN’s The Undefeated. Sources from both […]
NBA PLAYERS for the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics “could boycott their playoff game over the shooting of Jacob Blake.”
The teams are scheduled to play Game One of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Thursday night.
The players are expected to meet again tonight, according to a journalist for EPSN’s The Undefeated.
Sources from both teams told the reporter that “everything’s on the table.”
Celtics player Jaylen Brown tweeted on Tuesday “I want to go protest” following the shooting of Jacob Blake.
One day earlier, he wrote: “There is inequalities and injustices that carry HARSH punishments for people of color !! I watched a man get shot 7 times in front of his children they will never be able to unsee what they just saw every nerve in my body is on fire.”
On Sunday evening, shocking footage emerged showing Blake, 29, being gunned down by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
He was supposed to be celebrating his son’s eighth birthday, reported the Chicago Sun Times.
Instead, the father-of-six was shot at least seven times in the back in front of his three sons, who were sitting in an SUV as he tried to enter the vehicle.
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The officers involved have all been place on administrative leave.
Police were responding to a domestic dispute between two women; Blake had been trying to deescalate the situation before he was shot in the back as he tried to walk away, reports say.
Blake was transferred to Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee after he was shot, the WI DOJ said, where he remains in a serious condition.