Law enforcement holds a line Tuesday in Kenosha, Wis. The union representing police officers in Kenosha says Jacob Blake, who was shot multiple times at close range and severely wounded by a police officer, was armed with a knife. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
The union representing police officers in Kenosha, Wis., have provided to NPR what they say is a detailed account of the moments leading up to the shooting of Jacob Blake, who was severely wounded by a police officer Sunday.
That account says Blake was armed with a knife and "forcefully fought" with the officers who tried to arrest him, putting one of them in a headlock. The statement from the Kenosha Professional Police Association also says officers twice shot Tasers at Blake but these failed to subdue him.
The 20-second video of Blake's shooting, filmed by a bystander, has been viewed millions of times on social media. But its short duration fails to show the preceding interactions between police and Blake. Benjamin Crump, a lawyer representing Blake, has said that Blake had been trying to break up a domestic dispute. Authorities in Wisconsin have released few details about the incident.
The police union statement, emailed Friday to NPR, says "most" narratives about the shooting "are wholly inaccurate" and "purely fictional," including information fromBlake's lawyers. The union also says the sparse statement released by Wisconsin's Division of Criminal Investigation, the agency leading the investigation into the police shooting, is "riddled with incomplete information."
In a Friday interview on CNN, lawyers for Jacob Blake dispute the police union's account, calling the union's version of events "overblown." They say police officers who responded to the call were the aggressors in the incident and immediately became physical with Blake upon arriving at the scene, and that when Blake tried to remove himself from the situation, "at a time when he posed no imminent threat – that was when they shot him seven times."
Meanwhile, Blake is no longer handcuffed to his hospital bed in Milwaukee. Kenosha police chief Daniel Miskinis told reporters Friday that Blake was "being guarded because he's under arrest" for an outstanding warrant for third degree sexual assault.
Patrick Cafferty, a lawyer representing Blake, says a $500 bail was posted Friday, allowing officers to remove the handcuffs and no longer guard the 29-year old. Two officers had been guarding Blake since he was hospitalized after the shooting.
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