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“A Sorority of Pain” Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor Family Push for New Laws

By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
@StacyBrownMedia

Jacob Blake Sr. will never forget the long and anxious drive from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shortly after the August 2020 police shooting of his son.

“The longest 13 and a half hours of my life,” Blake told NNPA Newswire.

“It was pure dread as a father having heard what had just happened to my son.”

Blake, 29, was left partially paralyzed after a police officer shot him seven times in the back in a residential area of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 23, 2020.

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