The co-founder of BLM calls on Hollywood to strike over shooting of Jacob Blake

Earlier this week, several sports teams boycotted games and refused to play in protest over the shooting of Jacob Blake. Now, Patrisse Cullors, a TV writer and the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, is calling on the film and television industry to follow in the footsteps of the sports world and join the protest against anti-Black police violence. It’s time, says Cullors, for Hollywood to speak up and take action in support of Black lives with a work stoppage of its own.Blake was shot in the back seven times by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 23. He remains in hospital handcuffed to his bed, despite reports that he has been paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the shooting.