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Jacob Blake Shares Bedside Message: ‘Change Y’all Lives,’ ‘It’s Nothing But Pain’

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Jacob Blake Shares Bedside Message: ‘Change Y’all Lives,’ ‘It’s Nothing But Pain’
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On Saturday, a lawyer for Jacob Blake posted a video of the 29-year-old sharing a message from his hospital bed that encouraged people to “change” their “lives,” emphasizing the pain he has suffered after he was shot by police last month in Wisconsin during an attempted arrest.

“I just wanna say, man, to all the young cats out there, and even the older ones, older than me, there’s a lot more life to live out here, man,” he says in the video, which was posted to social media.

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