Trevor Noah Faults Kenosha Police For Treating a Shooter Better Than Jacob Blake: For Some ‘Black Skin Is the Most Threatening Weapon Of All’

Late-night host Trevor Noah faulted Kenosha police for treating a vigilante who allegedly shot and killed two people better than Jacob Blake — questioning why “some people get shot seven times in the back while other people are treated like human beings and reasoned with and taken into custody with no bullets in their bodies.”

“After the George Floyd protests, which swept not only the U.S. but many countries around the world, there was definitely a sense that this could be the moment of systemic change,” Noah said. “But as we’ve been reminded of yet again, there is still a long way to go.”

Noah questioned how Blake’s shooting escalated so quickly, wondering what happened to the methods used before resulting in violence, such as warning shots or tackling.

“That’s all we have? I mean think about it, even when wild animals are loose on the streets, they have tranquilizers, they have nets,” he pointed out. “I never thought I would wish for Black people to be treated at least like a wild bear, but here we are.”

The host also noted that the shootings that occurred during the protests on Tuesday night were a tragedy, but focused on how police treated gunman Kyle Rittenhouse afterward — calling it “illuminating” before pointing out that his life was spared while Blake was shot seven times.

“How come Jacob Blake was seen as a threat for a theoretical gun that he might have and might try to commit a crime with, but this gunman who was armed and who had already shot people, who had shown that he is a threat, was arrested the next day, given full due process of the law and generally treated like a human being whose life matters?” Noah asked.

The host later pointed to other white gunmen, such as Dylann Roof, who shot up a church in South Carolina in an attempt to start a race war, and James Holmes, who killed 12 people in a Colorado movie theater, and asked why they were given the privilege of life while others are not.

“Why is it that the police decide some threats must be distinguished immediately, while other threats get the privilege of being defused?” Noah pleaded. “I’m asking these as questions but I feel like we know the answer. The answer is that the gun doesn’t matter as much as who’s holding the gun, because for some people black skin is the most threatening weapon of all.”

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