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17-Year-old Suspect Charged With Murder After Two Killed at Kenosha Protest (Kyle Rittenhouse)
Daily Beast ^
| 08/26/2020
| Pilar Melendez
Posted on 08/26/2020 10:28:22 AM PDT by Drew68
Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old suspected of fatally shooting at least two people and injuring another during protests in Kenosha over the shooting of Jacob Blake, has been arrested, according to local media reports.
Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested in Illinois and has been reportedly charged with first-degree intentional homicide.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Wisconsin
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To: Dead Corpse
Courts can go either way. Juries I have more faith in.
I also hope and pray that some fantastic defense teams are assembling to defend this boy.
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posted on
08/26/2020 12:50:41 PM PDT
by
Persevero
(I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
To: RandallFlagg
Im also glad I have self defense insurance. Good example of that.
To: caww
Showing their love for our country, flag and freedoms they enjoy and will pass them onto their children..s/
403
posted on
08/26/2020 12:53:12 PM PDT
by
caww
(Every politician should serve two terms; one in office, and the second in jail)
To: americas.best.days...
To: Fury
It's entirely possible that the shootings were justified via self-defense. That will come out in a trial...However as you note, he was in possession of a firearm and was under the age of possession in WI. *If* he crossed state lines with a firearm, that comes under federal jurisdiction - and more potential problems. May or may not come out. We obviously don't know the facts well, but he was in possession of the firearm illegally. He inserted himself in a dangerous situation, apparently with no connection to the store owner he may have been defending. Apparently, per another poster, he confronted the a man breaking a car window and fired a warning shot in the air. If the prosecutor can establish he provoked the initial confrontation and subsequent chase, self defense goes out the window. The incidents I've seen on the tapes clearly look to be self defense, but if he was part of provoking the incident, it won't matter at trial. Big problem. Hopefully he'll be able to plead to something not too life damaging. Hopefully he doesn't post anything over the top on social media. The parents, don't know where but the victim's lawyers will find them for the civil suit. And maybe law enforcement in IL, depends on whether the kid had an FOID, if not he possessed the rifle illegally in two states. And someone owns the rifle, a 17 year old can't purchase one.
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posted on
08/26/2020 12:54:30 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
To: Pox; cornfedcowboy
406
posted on
08/26/2020 12:55:38 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
To: Pox
Whether or not he was supposed to be there armed or not is a question for the lawyers to sort out. Perhaps if more of us were actually out on the street helping defend these places from being burnt down and looted, then we wouldnt have young people out there doing the job and risking their lives and freedom....Me, I see the kid retreating and still retreating and the asshole who got shot in the head wouldnt stop his aggression, so he got exactly what he deserved. I don't disagree. Other than perhaps just how the lawyers will sort it out. I don't think he'll walk away unless, as some have done, the prosecutor sticks with only a single high charge.
407
posted on
08/26/2020 12:57:19 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
To: woodpusher
So where is the rifle now?
408
posted on
08/26/2020 1:00:03 PM PDT
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: Vermont Lt; House Atreides
you’re just pissed that a few of your homeys were killed...and by a 17 yo no less.
To: spacejunkie2001
youre just pissed that a few of your homeys were killed...and by a 17 yo no less. Bush league comment. Where were you last night? If you were not in Kenosha, then you have no business making the comment you did.
410
posted on
08/26/2020 1:04:24 PM PDT
by
Fury
(.)
To: Tucsonican
At this point the kid came running back, chased by a “protester”, and shot the person that had been chasing him in the head.
I read the first shoot was him responding to being hit with a pipe. Definitely got some fog of war going on.
Being chased and having a Molotov cocktail thrown at you doesn’t seem as life threatening, although that’s kind of a relative judgment. Under more normal circumstances being chased with a Molotov cocktail would surely justify self defense.
To: caww
Tan shorts guy didn't back off, continued forward gets arm shot...guy in black jump suite looks crazed excited by it all.
412
posted on
08/26/2020 1:08:03 PM PDT
by
caww
(Every politician should serve two terms; one in office, and the second in jail)
To: caww
Tan shorts guy didn't back off, continued forward gets arm shot...guy in black jump suite looks crazed excited by it all.
413
posted on
08/26/2020 1:08:04 PM PDT
by
caww
(Every politician should serve two terms; one in office, and the second in jail)
To: Fury
I agree 100%. No sympathy for the victims.
To: caww
To: caww
guy in black jump suite looks crazed excited by it all.All fueled by drugs, like Floyd.
416
posted on
08/26/2020 1:09:24 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(#openupstateny)
To: Magnum44
unknown now perhaps you can spot that if you watch the 5 hour YT vid.
417
posted on
08/26/2020 1:10:31 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: PIF
are u sure of the caliber? Given the chunk of meat blown out of the pistol wielding assailant's bicep later on, I'm pretty sure that if he had shot the first guy in the head with his rifle it would have made a more immediately fatal injury. Can't say about the caliber.
To: spacejunkie2001
I find it amusing. You guys are the first ones to point out when the libs are reacting based on their feelings and not facts.
And yet, here you are, walking around with a war woody over this child playing Call of Duty in the streets.
You are such an armchair warrior.
Call me when you take to the streets. Which means, I will never hear from you. You are the worst kind of persontrying to incite people. Yet, you stay safe in your basement.
Stop cheering the fact that kids are fighting your battles.
To: Vermont Lt
I want to know where this kid’s team was during all this.
What was the plan?
420
posted on
08/26/2020 1:14:05 PM PDT
by
Fury
(.)
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