Posted on 04/28/2022 5:10:49 PM PDT by Morgana
Kenosha's city council fell into chaos this week during discussions over a proposed taxpayer-funded memorial for one of the men killed by Kyle Rittenhouse after an attendee questioned the commission's move to table the proposal instead of voting it down.
The Monday meeting, which was captured on video, saw the city's five-person Parks Commission delay a decision that would have placed a memorial and plaque in a city park to honor Anthony Huber, an ex-convict skateboarder shot dead by Rittenhouse during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.
Video shows Huber, 26, chasing after a then-17-year-old Rittenhouse on August 25, 2020, swinging his skateboard at the teen before being fatally shot in the chest.
Rittenhouse was acquitted of the murder last year. He was also cleared for shooting dead one other person and wounding another.
Huber's girlfriend, Hannah Gittings, requested the memorial be put up earlier this month, public documents filed by the commission show, on a tree in Anderson Park.
The proposal garnered national attention earlier this week, after Kevin Mathewson, a former Kenosha alderman who now works as an investigative journalist, received a tip early Monday morning about the then-unreported request.
Mathewson, who served on the commission with three of the five current aldermen - including chair Eric Haugaard - then sent out an email blast about the proposal's existence, and wrote about it on his website, Kenosha County Eye.
The proposal soon became the subject of scrutiny by both the press and outraged citizens of Kenosha - who showed up in droves to the commission meeting to voice their opposition to the planned tribute.
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City wants to make monument to man who wanted to burn down city.
Have we reached peak stupid yet?
He didn’t just lunge at him, he struck him in the head with the skateboard….
Media Still won’t tell the truth!
No no no wait Ben...an ex-convict who tried to kill a 17 year old boy and burn a city down. Yes have reached peak stupidity yet?
Please put one up so Patriots have a place to urinate when in town.
A convicted wife beater.
Oh that happened a long time ago.
A relatively strong man could definitely kill someone with the trucks of a skateboard to the skull.
Self censored.
Gee, Let’s celebrate thugs and criminals!, who do they think they are, the NFL?
Looks like Alex Hammer and the Daily Mail would like to test Kyle's resolve to sue those who have slandered him.
Why not a memorial for the child molester Rittenhouse killed? The memorial could show the molestation in progress.
Definitely a lot of bigots on the Kenosha city council.
Memorial for a wife beater but nothing for the pedophile?
I’ll bet they hate trannies and furries too!
Assault skateboards kill and should be outlawed. 🤡
https://news.yahoo.com/skateboarder-terry-kennedy-charged-murder-164030987.html
https://thepostmillennial.com/man-dies-struck-head-skateboard-fight-california-starbucks/
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/12/20/man-charged-in-oakland-skateboard-beating-death/
“Ex-convict.” On the attack. Pretty much says it all. Kinda like, “Don’t bring a skateboard to a gunfight.”
Build a memorial to a moron? Sounds about right.
In all fairness, anyone can put in a suggestion.
Now, why the Parks Board tabled the request instead of vetoing it, seems to be the question.
May Kenosha Saturday mornings be filled with the sound of music of gunfire and clanging when the militia practices in the municipal park.
Put another statue of Anthony Huber's girlfriend Hannah Gitting near the women's shelter as a testimony to those suffering from mental illness that has them in "relationships" with drug-addled domestic abusers. The statue can have knobs on the side of her face in memory of him abusing women.
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