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Kenosha city council meeting descends into chaos as members discuss erecting memorial for man who lunged at Kyle Rittenhouse with a skateboard before he was shot dead by teen during BLM protests
Daily Mail UK ^ | April 27, 2022 | Alex Hammer

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: anthonyhuber; domesticterrorism; erichaugaard; kenosha; kylerittenhouse; rittenhouse
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No…it seems we haven’t reached peak stupidity…every time I think surely we have, I am proven wrong…


21 posted on 04/28/2022 5:38:26 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: BenLurkin

“City wants to make monument to man who wanted to burn down city.

Have we reached peak stupid yet?”

We may actually be a little bit PAST “peak stupid”. The bastards were caught, they realized that they may have had ANOTHER riot on their hands burning down what’s left of downtown, and they will be watched very carefully until the opportunity arises to vote them out of office.

I consider this promising, especially considering the city and state where this took place.


22 posted on 04/28/2022 5:40:02 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day paod for)
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To: Morgana

The parks board needs a monument to let future generations remember this event.

The Kenosha hat trick.


23 posted on 04/28/2022 5:59:13 PM PDT by AlbertWang
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To: Morgana

Can we get a memorial slot machine for Gaige Grosskreutz?


24 posted on 04/28/2022 6:23:06 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: Levy78

That’s not a bad idea.


25 posted on 04/28/2022 6:28:24 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: cuz1961

Not bad, not bad ‘tall


26 posted on 04/28/2022 6:32:51 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: BenLurkin

Leftists want us all dead, folks.


27 posted on 04/28/2022 6:55:11 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: AlbertWang

I used that very phrase some time ago, then realized it does not TRULY apply in the strictest interpretation. Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad (RIP Meatloaf).


28 posted on 04/28/2022 6:55:38 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Levy78

Plant the tree with a Darwin Award plaque.
“Don’t bring a skateboard to a gun fight”.


29 posted on 04/28/2022 7:35:52 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: texas booster

“Now, why the Parks Board tabled the request instead of vetoing it, seems to be the question.”

Tabling a matter is almost always tantamount to killing it ...


30 posted on 04/28/2022 9:18:23 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: KarlInOhio

I can make a sculpture of a mangled bicep to memorialize.


31 posted on 04/28/2022 11:22:22 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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