Holding Peace & Deadly Force: The Tragedy of Jacob Blake
4 min readAug 31, 2020
It is a clear evening in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A black man has arrived at a residence to help break up an altercation between two women. The details are foggy about why this man is there, but he is unarmed and nonviolent .
Bang!
The 29-year-old man moved to Kenosha from Evanston-a suburb of Chicago-a few years before this evening. He moved to…