Posted on 10/30/2021 6:52:18 PM PDT by RandFan
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — From the moment Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people on the streets of Kenosha during protests over the police shooting of a Black man, he’s personified America’s polarization.
The 17-year-old from Illinois who carried an AR-style rifle and idolized police was cheered by those who despised the Black Lives Matter movement and the sometimes destructive protests that followed George Floyd’s death. He was championed by pro-gun conservatives who said he was exercising his Second Amendment rights and defending cities from “antifa,” an umbrella term for leftist militants.
Others saw him as the most worrisome example yet of vigilante citizens taking to the streets with guns, often with the tacit support of police — a “chaos tourist,” in the words of the lead prosecutor, who came to Kenosha looking for trouble.
Though Rittenhouse and all three men he shot are white, many people saw racism at the heart of Kenosha — an armed white teen, welcomed by police to a city where activists were rallying against a white officer’s shooting of a Black man, and allowed to walk past a police line immediately after shooting three people.
That division is likely to be on display at Rittenhouse’s trial, which opens Monday with jury selection. Rittenhouse, now 18, faces several charges, including homicide — and could see a life sentence if convicted.
“It’s another battle in what has become the central story of our time —- the culture wars,” John Baick, who teaches modern American history at Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts, said.
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See what the lying media wants then to see?
The defense video effectively broke down moment by moment what took place. Self defense.
Why are so many Antifa guys pedophiles?
AR ‘style’ rifle? what the heck is that?
Why has the white, ‘Rat violins stopped?
A sane State government would have pinned a medal on this kid.
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‘SCOTT BAUER’ - THIS guy is one of the major DIVIDERS in America, today! Totally by design, Comrades. Totally! FU-AP!
*SPIT*
“Americans see what they want to see”. Just like George Floyd. The guy who O.D.d while a cop was killing him.
FUAP
AP is terrified that self-defense by deplorables will be enshrined via stare decisis by the Rittenhouse precedent.
It’s not “antifa”, it’s Antifa.
Ass Press weighs in, naturally - their real complaint is that the country doesn’t see what AP wants them to see, and the reason must be...wait for it...racism. Despite all the principals in the case being white. See, the riots were about a black guy getting killed by the police and so were righteous and so resisting them is racist. Follow all that? Me neither.
Not really.
Americans see the young man is a hero.
Only liberals think he did something wrong.
A non-Colt AR. M-4gery.
And of course to the AP, the right is the delusional side. Never mind that the prosecutor is pursuing the absolutely ludicrous claim that in a self-defense case, it doesn’t matter who is the aggressor.
That’s a pretty good description of the traveling Antifa goons.
HOGWASH! Asinine Press reports what they want you to believe. This is not “objective journalism,” it is propaganda.
AMEN ^^^^^^
Peeps should just leave other peeps alone.
No mandates.
I didn’t see anything about Rittenhouse shooting in self defense. Is it in the article? I’m not going to click it.
The neglect of that crucial point is appalling.
Gaslighters gonna gaslight. Spell out the terms for lawful defense, and each of his shootings clearly falls within that realm.
In addition, the media and the left claim that he’s the “vigilante” - which isn’t what self defense is - even as they defend at least two of his “victims” as merely trying to disarm him, i.e. enforcing a gun control law they believed Rittenhouse was violating, i.e. they were the ones being vigilantes (because it’s not their job to enforce the law, that’s what cops are for).
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