I watched the court case and heard the testimony. He was protecting businesses and he was a medic. Also he was protecting himself when the mob attacked him. You obviously know this but are trying to rewrite history. You’re an obvious leftist shill. Why are you on Free Republic?
“He was protecting businesses and he was a medic.”
He wasn’t a medic, he lied about that:
Rittenhouse explained that he’d been a cadet with the Antioch Fire Department in Illinois and while he’d learned some first aid skills, he was not a certified EMT, even though he’d told numerous people that night that he was.
Specifically, Rittenhouse told Richard McGinnis, a video producer with The Daily Caller, that he was an EMT during an interview and acquiesced that he was lying.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/10/five-takeaways-from-kyle-rittenhouses-testimony/
As for the protection part:
“Both Rittenhouse and Dominick Black, a friend accompanying him at the time, previously said they were in Kenosha that evening because the owners of the Car Source asked them to guard the properties. But the Khindri brothers’ testimony on Friday conflicted with those statements.
“After seeing the destruction, there was nothing I could do,” Anmol said.
He denied responding to the message, however. He said he hadn’t known who “Kyle” was at the time and didn’t see the message until the following day.
https://www.insider.com/brothers-say-they-never-asked-rittenhouse-to-guard-car-source-2021-11
“In the video, someone asks Rittenhouse why he fired his AR-15 at Rosenbaum, to which Rittenhouse replied “[Rosenbaum] pulled a gun”—a remark Binger said had been proven by witness testimony and evidence to be a lie.”
So according to these news sources covering the court case, all that can be witnessed here is that Rittenhouse lied on a number of statements. He was not there to protect property because he was never asked to be, he was not an EMT that he openly admitted was a lie, and it was witnessed that Rosenbaum did not draw a weapon as Rittenhouse claimed. So we have an inexperienced kid in a riot zone most people would stay out of, with a questionable weapon that he used to kill one unarmed person, Rosenbaum, and another that was trying to subdue him for the first killing incorrectly and dangerously, and the inexperienced kid lying through his teeth a number of times who told the car people in a text that he would be there and armed so if they wanted he could guard the property the owners witnessed they never responded to. And he’s on the street?
And how many of the people he threatened were conservatives or liberals? I don’t, myself, care how many. Rittenhouse was a lose cannon on the street with a weapon and lied across the board along with making accusations that were witnessed otherwise. And you defend him by saying I’m a leftist shill.
I’ve been on this board since the late 1990’s and voted republican almost across the board since I restarted voting in 1995 when I retired from the military. I only voted for POTUS and VPOTUS because I wasn’t living in states or countries I was in starting in 1967, just assigned there. And I am about as conservative as you can be. But there are laws to be considered that were put in to protect the people and I have as much the privilege to discuss them as you do and I try not to apply language to tell anyone what they are or even appear to be. I don’t know who they are. I ty not to make myself presumptuous.
I currently have two people discussing (?) this issue. I stopped talking about it the first time because people got insultive and didn’t want to observe facts presented and by who. It was a waste of a conversation.
I’ve provided you with four different sources of my observances, told you my thoughts, and I am not going to continue with this discussion as it is returning into the same format as the first time getting personal and to me name calling or character applications based upon personal unproven accusations. Please do not bother me again on this topic.
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