A man broke into the home of the mother of his children while she was sleeping, sexually assaulted her with one of her three children sleeping beside her, and stole her car keys and debit card, a criminal complaint issued by the state of Wisconsin reads. When the police were called to respond to that man again harassing the woman in violation of a recent restraining order, the police pursued him on the open warrant for his arrest as a result of the initial sexual assault. The counts included third-degree sexual assault, criminal trespass, and disorderly conduct. The man, who had in tow three of children, attempted to resist arrest, escaping two tasers and reaching into his car where a knife was stowed.
Presumably fearing for his own life and the lives of all nearby, a police officer shot the man in the back.
The woman who survived the sexual assault has been pretty much ignored. But Jacob Blake, the alleged assailant, is now the darling of the Left and the media. Not only did he stand accused of that assault, but he knowingly endangered his own children’s lives by attempting to flee the police.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared that the gunshots that wounded Blake “pierce the soul of the nation.” He deemed Blake “a victim of excessive force.” In a statement, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin called on “peaceful protests” to “lead the way to the answers we seek, and justice.” Over the next 48 hours, “mostly peaceful” protests overtook the city and burned parts of Kenosha, Wisconsin, to the ground.
This story is a tragedy, and it’s being ignored. That is the story of a woman subjected to repeated domestic abuse and sexual assault at the hands of an intimate partner. But unlike the overwhelming majority of the millions of people who suffer some sort of domestic violence or sexual assault per year, Blake’s victim nearly got justice. Consider, it was already exceptional that Blake’s victim reported the crime to the police — just one in four victims does. Of the cases that do get reported, just one in five will lead to an arrest. Even then, the odds were overwhelming that Blake would never spend a day in jail. Of the 5% of alleged rapists who do get arrested, just one in ten will wind up incarcerated. The conviction rate is about as awful for general domestic abuse cases, though the number of victims each year are likely orders of magnitude greater than those of rape.
About 1,000 people each year get shot by the police. Rioters are burning entire cities to protest the handful of these cases in which the justification for the shooting is considered questionable. Meanwhile, more than half a million people survive sexual assault each year, and more than ten million people suffer domestic abuse. In 2017, the world woke up for a moment and started to care, but slowly but surely, the #MeToo movement has been buried. It comes as little surprise that the same sort of intersectionality that sidelines Jews and Asian Americans in the name of wokeness is now celebrating a credibly accused rapist in the name of anti-racism.
There is a violent epidemic sweeping through America, percolating through generations and costing the nation trillions in mental health crises, subsequent drug addictions, domestic instability, and suicides. That’s the story of Blake’s alleged victim and of all the other millions who will never get their day in court.
