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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No…it seems we haven’t reached peak stupidity…every time I think surely we have, I am proven wrong…
“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.
The parks board needs a monument to let future generations remember this event.
The Kenosha hat trick.
Can we get a memorial slot machine for Gaige Grosskreutz?
That’s not a bad idea.
Not bad, not bad ‘tall
Leftists want us all dead, folks.
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).
Plant the tree with a Darwin Award plaque.
“Don’t bring a skateboard to a gun fight”.
“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 ...
I can make a sculpture of a mangled bicep to memorialize.
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