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The sex-assault complaint against Jacob Blake depicts a violent, dangerous man whom police were right to fear.
Blake was the subject of an arrest warrant for that charge and two others for more than a month when he struggled with police, tried to flee, and landed in the hospital with seven bullet wounds and paralyzed from the waist down. Police shot him as he tried to enter his car.
The complaint details the three domestic-abuse charges he faces in connection with an attack on “fiancée” Laquisha Booker on May 3.
Blake, the record shows, was hardly the upstanding citizen the latest cops-are-racist narrative would have us believe, and the complaint suggests that Blake and Booker aren’t the smooching lovebirds the leftist media is making them out to be.
Three Charges
Blake was wanted on one major felony and two misdemeanors. All three were domestic abuse against Booker, whom the complaint calls LNB.
The misdemeanors are criminal trespass and disorderly conduct, which carry fines and jail time. The third-degree sexual-assault charge, as The New American reported on Tuesday, is a Class G felony that carries a fine of up to $25,000 and 10 years in state prison.
The trouble on May 3 began, police allege, when Booker, who described Blake as her “ex-boyfriend,” told cops that he broke into her residence and stole car keys, a car, and a debit card.
Blake woke her up at 6 a.m. that morning and standing over her, said, “I want my s**t.”
Then came the sex assault, Booker told the cops:
As LNB lay there, on her back, the defendant, suddenly and without warning, reached his hand between her legs, penetrated her vaginally with a finger, pull[ed] it out and sniffed it, and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men.”
[The officer] reported LNB had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her and then the defendant immediately left the bedroom.
LNB stated the defendant penetrating her digitally caused her pain and humiliation and was done without her consent.
LNB stated she was upset but collected herself and ran after the defendant out the front door and then realized her vehicle was missing. LNB ran back inside to her purse, which was on the kitchen counter and checked it, quickly realizing her key to her truck (Ford Explorer 2002), a black individual key and the only key for the vehicle and her Great Lakes Debit Card were missing. LNB immediately called 911.
Unsurprisingly, Booker checked her bank account, and saw “saw two fraudulent ATM withdrawals on May 3, 2020 that she did not make,” both for $500.
Despite having three kids with Blake, the pair haven’t lived together in eight years. Blake is “unemployed, has no vehicle, and would not tell LNB where he was currently living,” the complaint says of Booker’s report to police. “LNB stated over the past eight years the defendant has physically assaulted her around twice a year when he drinks heavily.”
Booker declined a temporary restraining order and treatment by a forensic nurse examiner, “sheepishly saying she’d been through enough and was still very humiliated and upset by the sexual assault.”
Next day, Booker told cops her truck was returned with the debit card inside.
She’s His Fiancée?
The allegations comport with a newspaper report in 2015 that said Blake pulled a handgun on a bar patron in nearby Racine, Wisconsin, and having been ordered to leave, pointed the pistol at patrons through the window.
Cops later pulled him over in an SUV, and needed the help of a K9 to subdue him, such was his attempt to resist arrest. Cops found a handgun, a box of ammunition, and two loaded magazines in the vehicle.
Blake’s blood-alcohol level was almost twice Wisconsin’s 0.08 legal limit.
But beyond that, Booker’s criminal complaint invites the obvious observation that she and Blake must have an unusual relationship. She told police that she doesn’t know where he lives, hasn’t lived with him in eight years, and that he beats her semi-annually in a drunken rage. And she called Blake an “ex-boyfriend.”
That was less than five months ago, but now news reports have the pair down as a “fiancée” and “soon-to-be-husband” despite an active arrest warrant.
Is Booker really his fiancée, or is that claim a ruse to get sympathy for Booker and her children? A GoFundMe Account has collected more than $1.4 million.
Blake, 29, is the father of six. Court actions to get support for his and Booker’s kids apparently went nowhere.
Image: screenshot from YouTube video
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
