警官に銃撃された黒人男性、病床動画を公開　「息をするのも苦痛」

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米ウィスコンシン州で白人警官に銃で撃たれた黒人男性、ジェイコブ・ブレークさん（29）の病床の様子が捉えられた動画が公開された。ブレークさんはその中で、息をするのも苦痛で、常に痛みと闘っていると語った。（写真は「Black　Lives　Matter〈黒人の命は大切〉」運動の抗議デモ）
　動画はブレークさんの弁護士が５日に公開したもの。ブレークさんは下半身にまひが残るかもしれない重傷を負っており、支持者らに対し「命だけでなく、動き回ったり前へ進んだりするために必要な脚も、こんなふうに奪われてしまう」と語り掛けた。
　またブレークさんは背中と胃を縫合されたとも明かし、「２４時間常に苦痛だ。苦痛しかない」「息をするのも、眠るのも、こちらからあちらに移動するのも、食べるのも苦痛だ」と訴えた。そして「皆さんに言いたい、人生を変えてほしい。私たちは団結し、みんなのためにあらゆることをもっと容易にすることができる」と呼び掛けた。
　この動画はツイッターに投稿され、これまでに４０万回以上再生されている。
　ブレークさんは先月２３日、ウィスコンシン州ケノーシャで自身の子ども３人が乗っている車に乗り込もうとした際、警官から７～８回撃たれた。
　その時の様子は複数の目撃者によって撮影され、ブレークさんを制止・逮捕しようとした警官２人は停職処分となっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/09/07-13:25）

Jacob Blake, the young black man shot in the back multiple times by a white police officer in Wisconsin, said it hurts to breathe and that he was in constant pain in a video message from his hospital bed.
Despite his injuries, which will likely leave him paralyzed from the waist down, Blake told his supporters there's a lot more life to live.
Your life, and not only just your life, your legs -- something that you need to move around and forward in life -- can be taken from you like this, man, Blake said, snapping his fingers, in the video released Saturday by his lawyer Ben Crump.
Wearing a hospital gown, Blake said he had staples in his back and stomach.
Twenty-four hours, every 24 hours it's pain, it's nothing but pain, he said.
It hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep, it hurts to move from side-to-side, it hurts to eat, he said in the video, which has more than 400,000 views on Twitter.
Please, I'm telling you, change your lives out there. We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people out there, man, because there's so much time that's been wasted.
The 29-year-old was gravely wounded when a policeman fired seven or eight shots at him as he tried to get into his car on August 23 in Kenosha, in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin. Three of his children were in the car at the time.
The scene was filmed by bystanders and the two police officers who were trying to stop or arrest Blake have been suspended.
Coming three months after the death of George Floyd, Blake's shooting has touched off a new round of demonstrations in several cities.
Protests in Kenosha began peacefully the night Blake was shot, but descended into violence for several nights running.
It culminated August 25 when two people were shot dead. A 17-year-old white Trump supporter has been arrested and charged with murder.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke with Blake by phone on Thursday and met with his family.