Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

I've had it. I think the Jacob Blake shooting video is fake. It's bad enough that the behaviors of both Blake and the cop are inexplicable, with Blake ignoring and walking away from agitated cops who have their guns drawn, and presumably were ordering him to stop, and yet he didn't. And in the Bizarro World in which we live, nobody in the Media is talking about the fact that the cops obviously wanted Blake to stop, but he didn't stop. Who does that? Who ignores what a cop with a drawn gun tells you to do? Since when is it OK to ignore a directive from a policeman on the street? On the street, police are the authority. Everybody knows that.

But then, the lead cop starts pulling on Blake's t-shirt, which accomplished nothing. Why would he do that? And then after pulling on it, he starts shooting at Blake. But why? What changed? What did he see that provoked him to start firing and keep firing? I have no idea. Do you? With him pulling on that shirt, I can't imagine that he saw much of anything. So, what provoked him to pull the trigger? And why did he feel the need to pull it 7 times?

But, you know me; I'm a photo guy. I want to know why this photo looks so weird. The cop was presumably pulling on Blake's t-shirt. It was just one layer of material. You can see in this image that the t-shirt is sheer on Blake's back. It's covering his back; it is lying on his back in the normal way. So, what is the cop pulling on? How can the t-shirt be lying sheer on Blake's back while also being stretched by the cop at the same time?

I have nothing but good wishes for black Americans, and I abhor racism in all its forms. But, this video is not legit, and this story is not believable. And that includes the part about a man being shot 7 times in the back, severing his spinal cord, and surviving. I think the odds of him dying from the sum of those wounds is very great. I am asking people, of all colors, to join me in looking at this story critically, and looking at the images from the story critically. So, I am asking you to share this. Thank you.