Posted on 08/27/2020 5:48:09 AM PDT by sickoflibs
There’s a lot of attention to the shooting of multiple people last night in Kenosha.
Police have arrested 17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse and charged him with murder.
Liberals are already off to the races, calling him a “white supremacist” murderer and of course, always blaming President Donald Trump. Of course there is nothing to support this, his background simply suggests he was supportive of the police.
But if you look at the video, there are likely going to be big problems with legally trying to make that stick.
While all the facts are not yet clear, enough facts have come out to suggest that he may have been protecting himself, the question may be was his response a legally proportionate response to the attacks on him.
If you look at the video progression of what happened that we have available, the first video shows Rittenhouse allegedly running into a service station, being chased and attacked, with something being thrown something at him. That first shooting happens, he calls someone, possibly 911 while the Daily Caller’s Richie McGinness tries to give medical aid to the guy who was shot, taking off his shirt to use to staunch the bleeding in his head.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
He is also not a resident of that state
How do we know his appearance there was even known by his parents, let alone condoned?
I did a lot of shi’te my parents didn’t know about when I was 17. Drinking, driving, smoking dope, having adult relations with teenage girls and even older-than-me young women, all kinds of bad stuff.
That is probably why he is dead ... he inadvertantly pointed it toward himself and Kyle's finger was twisted while on the trigger.
How does one determine the legitimacy of that site. It looked like the GoFundMe pages that were taken down were started by his father. But that one isn’t.
Lin Wood may be representing Kyle pro bono. Also, Michelle Malkin is doing a lot of lobbying on Kyle’s behalf.
In the late 50’s my Brother took his Rifle to School. He was in the Gun Club and they had a shooting range in the basement. That was in Long Island, NY. How things have changed.
This is my issue with the whole thing. This 17 year old boy, presumably still in high school, is permitted to travel to another state with an AR15 in order to “protect” businesses? He also said he wanted to provide medical care. Is he a doctor or even a junior EMT? Why was he putting himself in that situation? What parent of a teenager would give the green light for their young son to possibly get killed over some anonymous business being looted? I see that he had no choice but to protect himself, but that is besides my point. The whole story is odd to me
“The whole story is odd to me”
I think so too. I question what group he was a member of.
Insanity does seem to be the prevailing trend.
I heard from another blog that all three “victims” had felony sheets. One, a child molester a woman beater and the one with the gun was also a felon. They are I believe also all men as apposed to the 17 year old youth they were chasing.
Excellent points about the wound damage. Compare the wound of now “one armed man” to the small wound of the first shoot. Those attending him had a hard time even finding the wound up close.
I listened to video a couple times and couldn’t tell what he said. Some have reported he said “I just killed somenone” and others have reported he said “ I didn’t shoot him”
There’s a fundly page at about $10k...if you click on it, nothing happens. There’s a Colorado Freedom Fund page, if you click on it, you go to the donation page. They haven’t deleted Rittenhouse’s fundly page, they’ve just disabled your ability to donate to it. Leftist scum
Agreed. If he was there to protect property and was with others:
1) Where were the other members of his team?
2) Was the team briefed on use of force laws in WI, talking with the media during operations, etc?
3) What was the team using for comms?
4) What if the team members gets separated? Do they have a known safe/secure area they can go to?
5) If they are engaged by a hostile force, what is the plan? Do they break contact and form a hasty defense?
6) One of the interviews said that he was there too also provide first aid. Did the team have a Casualty Collection Point established?
This kid went into essentially a combat zone with what sounds like not much of plan because his team let him down. They were unprepared for events of that night. Because apparently just having a few long guns is all that the team thought it would take? Training? Tactics? Anything?
Actually I got a message the page is overwhelmed.
RE:”The whole story is odd to me”
Yes it is.
I hope that’s what it is. I didn’t get that message, my screen blinked and I was still on the main page.
This is my issue with the whole thing. This 17 year old boy, presumably still in high school, is permitted to travel to another state with an AR15 in order to “protect” businesses? He also said he wanted to provide medical care. Is he a doctor or even a junior EMT? Why was he putting himself in that situation? What parent of a teenager would give the green light for their young son to possibly get killed over some anonymous business being looted? I see that he had no choice but to protect himself, but that is besides my point. The whole story is odd to me
I think it is very possible that he was there with family members and/or friends that he might have known the owners of the car lot and was trying to defend it. Living less than 12 miles away means he was a local unlike the felons who chased him.
Those interviews were before the shootings, that's evidence in his defense.
Stated his intentions.
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