Watch: Wisconsin shooting victim Jacob Blake shares a powerful message from hospital bed

Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old black man who was shot by a police officer in Wisconsin on August 24, shared a video message from his hospital bed. “It hurts to breathe,” he said in the video, adding that he was in constant pain.

In the video released by his lawyer Ben Crump on Saturday, Blake told his supporters “there’s a lot more life to live.” The injuries, which come as a result of the policeman shooting him seven times, may leave him paralysed from the waist down.

“Your life, and not only just your life, your legs — something that you need to move around and forward in life — can be taken from you like this, man,” Blake said, snapping his fingers in the video, which has over 400,000 views on Twitter.

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Wearing a hospital gown, Blake said he had staples in his back and stomach.

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“Twenty-four hours, every 24 hours it’s pain, it’s nothing but pain,” he said.

“It hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep, it hurts to move from side-to-side, it hurts to eat,” he said.

“Please, I’m telling you, change your lives out there. We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people out there, man, because there’s so much time that’s been wasted.”

The 29-year-old was gravely wounded when a policeman fired seven or eight shots at him as he tried to get into his car on August 23 in Kenosha, in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin. Three of his children were in the car at the time.

The scene was filmed by bystanders and the two police officers who were trying to stop or arrest Blake have been suspended.

Coming three months after the death of George Floyd, Blake’s shooting has touched off a new round of demonstrations in several cities.

Protests in Kenosha began peacefully the night Blake was shot, but descended into violence for several nights running.,It culminated August 25 when two people were shot dead. A 17-year-old white Trump supporter has been arrested and charged with murder.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke with Blake by phone on Thursday and met with his family.