[Jacob Blake\Breonna Taylor]
Justin Blake: “We’re going to push at every door and corner that we can in the United States until we get justice for not only little Jake, but for all the little Jakes out there.”
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Locked arm in arm, the families of Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor led a crowd of hundreds in Evanston on Saturday afternoon as they marched for justice and unity.
Blake and Taylor were both shot by police in the last year, Taylor fatally.
Their families met in Chicago on Saturday in what they called a “family reunion of sorts” to show their solidarity with each other and other families who have lost their loved ones at the hands of police, to call for systemic reform and to urge people to vote.
“We’re going to push at every door and corner that we can in the United States until we get justice for not only little Jake, but for all the little Jakes out there,” said Justin Blake, Jacob Blake’s uncle.
Blake, who lived in Evanston for years and attended Evanston Township High School, was shot by a police officer in Kenosha in August.
Cellphone footage shared online following the shooting appears to show an officer firing several shots at Blake, who is Black, while he was facing away from the officer.
He remains paralyzed, according to his family.
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