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  Nations Capital Undersized by Domestic Terrorist   by Dennis S Murray Sr., .Six years before Jacob Blake was shot and critically injured by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the city made national headlines for a case that became the impetus for  groundbreaking reforms concerning the use of deadly force. “Could it help provide a new faith in the justice system?”  The New York Times  asked  at the time. Those reforms, however, were narrowly focused on making changes to how law enforcement investigates its own, the kind of reform strategy that once may have seemed like enough. On August 23, 2020, Jacob S. Blake, a 29-year-old black man was shot by police eight times in his back as he walked back to the car where his children reportedly sat waiting for him, it wasn’t a failure of reform but evidence of what any reform really does look like. But the law enforcement officer felt that they had to use lethal force because they felt their life was threatened. However, Jacob Clark