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Apple CEO Cook calls Jacob Blake ‘another Emmett Till’

Apple CEO Tim Cook has posted a statement via Twitter regarding Jacob Blake Jr., a black man shot by a white Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer on August 23, 2020. Cook called Blake “another Emmett Till.”
Jacob Blake (Credit: Facebook)
Emmett Till on Christmas Day, 1954. (Photo: Mamie Till Bradley)Cook compared Blake to Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store.
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