Jacob Blake, who remains in hospital after several injuries, is now being handcuffed to his bed.
According to CNN, Blake’s uncle said Blake’s father visited the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin hospital. He wanted to see his son recovers from at least one operation.
He was “heartbroken” to see his son for having handcuffs.
“This is an insult to injury,” Justin Blake, the uncle of the victim, said. “He is paralyzed and he can’t walk. After that, they have him cuffed to the bed. Why?”
Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, has spent several days in the hospital. A Kenosha police officer shot him seven times in the back on Sunday while trying to detain him, state investigators said.
Kenosha police and sheriff’s department, as well as the county attorney’s office, did not respond immediately to a request for comment. CNN has reached out to lawyers for the Blake estate.
A spokesman for Froedtert Hospital, where Blake is being treated, referred questions from CNN to the Department of Justice in Wisconsin.
When asked about why Blake being handcuffed, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said that he “couldn’t imagine” the reasoning behind it.
“I would have no personal understanding of why that would be necessary,” Evers said during a news conference on Thursday.
“I would hope that we would be able to find a more, a better way to help him … in recovering. That seems counterintuitive. It seems to be bad medicine.”
‘He’s a Young Man and He’s Resilient’
On Wednesday night Justin Blake told CNN the family didn’t want to speak to the cop.
“We just want to make sure the supervisors, those who are in charge, understand that (Blake’s) mother and … his father just want justice,” he said. “We don’t want to talk to him. He should have to deal with the system that’s in front of him, and we need to make sure that that system works.”
A family lawyer previously said Blake sustained several shooting injuries including one-arm gunshot wound and injury to his cord of the heart, liver, and spinal cord.
On Wednesday night, Blake’s uncle said they are hopeful he may have “a great recovery.”
“(His recovery) is going to be slow, it’s going to be progressive, but he’s a young man and he’s resilient,” Justin Blake said. “He has every chance, as anybody else, to turn things around.”
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