Posted on 11/15/2021 7:20:11 PM PST by Faith Presses On
For most of the crowd that went after Kyle Rittenouse, it was just word of mouth that he'd shot someone. Even the man he told that he had (which was picked up clearly on the videotape he would only have played back later) might have misheard him with all that was going on. Only later could he be sure, with the tape, of what was said.
And since Rittenhouse left the area rather than shooting other people, and wasn't acting like an active shooter, they had no way of truly thinking that he was. The crowd went after him anyway, although they might have easily been acting on mistaken identity, just as Jacob Rosenbaum is alleged to have mistaken Rittenhouse for the similarly dressed man who angered him by putting out the dumpster fire at the gas station.
That's the reason why cops were thanking Kyle and his crew and handing them water bottles - they were doing what the cops needed to do but weren't allowed to.
That wild pack of rioters didn't care a whit about "black lives matter": they were there to destroy and injure and that howling mob chasing Kyle was all the proof they needed that he was justified in firing in self defense.
“The entire crowd should be prosecuted for Lynching.”
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Another good point.
Is it the prosecutor’s point that once a lynch mob gets rolling the object of its insane ire, as well as everyone else, including the local constabulary, should simply yield to its will?
Yes, Exactly.
It's known as Mob Rule, but the Democrats call it "Democracy".
The modern Democrat Base is a Lynch Mob.
Nearly 230 years on from The Terror and we still can’t bring ourselves to admit that 40,000 bloodthirsty, demoniacal Frenchman CAN be wrong.
Frenchmen...
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