Trevor Noah Goes Off on Kenosha Police for Treating Vigilante Better Than Jacob Blake
Vice President Mike Pence was still delivering his speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night when The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah turned to far more pressing matters.
“After the George Floyd protests, which swept not only the U.S. but many countries around the world, there was definitely a sense that this could be the moment of systemic change,” the host began. “But as we’ve been reminded of yet again, there is still a long way to go.”
Noah was of course talking about the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this week. “I’ll never get used to how quickly police go from issuing demands to using deadly force,” he said. “Whatever happened to warning shots? Or tackling a suspect? Are we really meant to believe that the only two options a cop has is do nothing or shoot somebody in the back seven times?”