Opinion: Replace the ‘cold steel’ of hospital-bed shackles with the warmth of compassion
“Why do they have that cold steel on my son’s ankle?”
The father of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was newly paralyzed from the waist down, wanted to know why his son was shackled to his hospital bed. Jacob Blake had been shot in the back seven times by police in Kenosha, Wis., and the bullets had severed his spinal cord. He was absolutely no flight risk, yet a police officer had cuffed him to the bed.
