Posted on 08/29/2020 9:24:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This simple fact destroys the narrative being peddled by the mainstream media that he had “crossed state lines” to harm the rioters.
In a statement by Rittenhouse’s legal team at Pierce Bainbridge, provided to the Gateway Pundit, they explained that “after Kyle finished his work that day as a community lifeguard in Kenosha, he wanted to help clean up some of the damage, so he and a friend went to the local public high school to remove graffiti by rioters.”
Additionally, the weapon Rittenhouse was using to protect himself and others never crossed state lines.
“Later in the day, they received information about a call for help from a local business owner, whose downtown Kenosha auto dealership was largely destroyed by mob violence,” the statement continues. “Business owner needed help to protect what he had left of his life’s work, including two nearby mechanic’s shops. Kyle and a friend armed themselves with rifles due to the deadly violence gripping Kenosha and many other American cities, and headed to the business premises. The weapons were in Wisconsin and never crossed state lines.”
When Rittenhouse arrived at the mechanics shop, he and others stood guard to prevent further destruction. Later that night, long after the 8 p.m. curfew had passed, the police began to disperse a group of rioters. His lawyer, John M. Pierce, explains that while dispersing the mob, they maneuvered a mass of individuals down the street towards the auto shops. Rittenhouse and the others were threatened and taunted, but he did not react. “His intent was not to incite violence, but simply to deter property damage and use his training to provide first aid to injured community members,” Pierce says.
After the situation seemed to be diffused, Rittenhouse became increasingly concerned about people who were injured at the gas station, so he went in that direction with his first aid kit. He helped those he could find who were injured, either by administering aid or directing them which way to go for help beyond what he could offer.
The statement says that by the final time that Rittenhouse returned to the gas station and “confirmed there were no more injured individuals who needed assistance, police had advanced their formation and blocked what would have been his path back to the mechanic’s shop. Kyle then complied with the police instructions not to go back there. Kyle returned to the gas station until he learned of a need to help protect the second mechanic’s shop further down the street where property destruction was imminent with no police were nearby.”
“As Kyle proceeded towards the second mechanic’s shop, he was accosted by multiple rioters who recognized that he had been attempting to protect a business the mob wanted to destroy. This outraged the rioters and created a mob now determined to hurt Kyle. They began chasing him down. Kyle attempted to get away, but he could not do so quickly enough. Upon the sound of a gunshot behind him, Kyle turned and was immediately faced with an attacker lunging towards him and reaching for his rifle. He reacted instantaneously and justifiably with his weapon to protect himself, firing and striking the attacker,” Pierce explains.
Additionally, Rittenhouse stopped to ensure care for his attacker, hardly sounds like someone who had went to the riot with intent to kill.
“Kyle stopped to ensure care for the wounded attacker but faced a growing mob gesturing towards him. He realized he needed to flee for his safety and his survival. Another attacker struck Kyle from behind as he fled down the street. Kyle turned as the mob pressed in on him and he fell to the ground,” his legal team says. “One attacker kicked Kyle on the ground while he was on the ground. Yet another bashed him over the head with a skateboard. Several rioters tried to disarm Kyle. In fear for his life and concerned the crowd would either continue to shoot at him or even use his own weapon against him, Kyle had no choice but to fire multiple rounds towards his immediate attackers, striking two, including one armed attacker. The rest of the mob began to disperse upon hearing the additional gunshots.”
Rittenhouse then attempted to turn himself in, but was told to keep moving. He went and turned himself in to his local police that evening.
“Kyle got up and continued down the street in the direction of police with his hands in the air. He attempted to contact multiple police officers, but they were more concerned with the wounded attackers. The police did not take Kyle into custody at that time, but instead they indicated he should keep moving,” the statement says. “He fully cooperated, both then and later that night when he turned himself in to the police in his hometown, Antioch, Illinois.”
The legal team says that “in a reactionary rush to appease the divisive, destructive forces currently roiling this country, prosecutors in Kenosha did not engage in any meaningful analysis of the facts, or any in-depth review of available video footage (some of which shows that a critical state’s witness was not even at the area where the shots were fired); this was not a serious investigation. Rather, after learning Kyle may have had conservative political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens. Within 24-36 hours, he was charged with multiple homicide counts.”
Rittenhouse is now being represented by some of the best legal minds in the country at Pierce Bainbridge, with help from Nicholas Sandmann’s lawyer Lin Wood.
On Friday, his legal team obtained a several-week continuance of his extradition hearing to September 25th. The lawyers say that this is an attempt to slow the rush to assassinate his character and destroy his life.
“Kyle, his family, the team at Pierce Bainbridge and his other lawyers intend to fight these charges every step of the way, take the case to trial and win an acquittal on the grounds of self-defense before a jury of his peers,” the statement reads.
The legal fees and other costs of Kyle’s defense will be provided through donations to #FightBack Foundation Inc., a Texas 501(c)(4) foundation created by John Pierce and Lin Wood to protect law- abiding American citizens whose rights are being trampled on by state and local governments that are more concerned with appeasing mobs than protecting those rights.
“A 17-year old child should not have to take up arms in America to protect life and property. That is the job of state and local governments. However, those governments have failed, and law-abiding citizens have no choice but to protect their own communities as their forefathers did at Lexington and Concord in 1775,” Pierce said. “Kyle is not a racist or a white supremacist. He is a brave, patriotic, compassionate law-abiding American who loves his country and his community. He did nothing wrong. He defended himself, which is a fundamental right of all Americans given by God and protected by law. He is now in the crosshairs of institutional forces that are much more powerful than him. But he will stand up to them and fight not only for himself, but for all Americans and their beloved Constitution. We will never leave his side until he is victorious in that fight.”
Or "Lefty".
I think they said he is being held in a juvenile detention facility in IL
Just like with Nick Sandmann, the media crucified this until the truth comes out. I hope he sues their shorts off just like Nick did.
...crucified this kid until...
I prefer “Lefty”.
Great post. Thank you.
I feel completely energized after reading his lawyer’s statement.
4chan thinks they have tracked down the other shooter. They are archiving everything and sending it to Kyle’s atty.
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Now, the chase to reveal the other shooter.
“He was doing the job the cops wouldn’t do.”
Yes, it took a single, lone young patriot to step into the void left by a criminal-supporting governor and mayor, and police who obeyed when ordered to not do their duty to protect the civil rights and safety of the people. I’ve been waiting to see who would rise to the occasion to take out the trash. Adults stood by and watched their monuments being torn down, cities looted and put to the torch and the laws flaunted. The “men” of America were cowardly, passive sheep. Kyle has changed that now, and he has become a hero, a brave male Joan of Arc, whose bravery will be followed by that of others. I predict that Kyle will be remembered and praised long after this embarrassing time for our country’s manhood has passed.
Often, sh*t happens. Truckers take a wrong turn into a mob area, and get beat up. A road can end up in a dead end, with an attacker blocking your retreat. Etc. This brave boy handled the situation extremely well considering overwhelming odds against him. I expect a movie will be made chronicling his ordeal, culminating in being declared innocent in court.
Do you suppose they'll put up a statue in the public square, to replace one of the ones that had been torn down?
The "white supremacy" these miscreants claim to oppose only means protection of life and property.
There was an article from ABC trying to make the three assailants heroes. The article said that the 1st punk, 36 years old, “threw a plastic bag at Kyle and attempted to take the weapon from him. Yeh, sure, ... threw what we are to believe was a harmless plastic bag toward a guy holding a gun...Crappy reporting as usual.
Oh, and then that 26 year old skateboarder ... ABC reports...”According to court records, [punk #2] had a skateboard in his right hand and used it to ‘make contact’ with Rittenhouse’s left shoulder as they struggled for control of the gun.” Yeh, right “make contact” ....
And the 3rd punk, the “medic” with a hand gun that he approached [Kyle] after punk #2 was shot. No one asked why does a “medic” wears black at a nighttime protest, and why would a “medic” with nothing but “peaceful intentions” carries a loaded handgun.
None of the 3 punk commies appear to be from Kenosha. One of them will be called to testify, and it won’t be a good day for him when cross examination occurs. Those two facts (black garbed medic and gun) plus more ... like his membership in Antifa and riot history will become part of the case.
“4chan thinks they have tracked down the other shooter. They are archiving everything and sending it to Kyle’s atty.”
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OUTSTANDING! I hope the attorneys are archiving ALL the online stuff. It WILL begin to be “disappeared”.
He’s a minor, not sure he’ll be bail eligible. In CA minors aren’t eligible for bail, don’t know about IL. Usually minors who commit infractions that aren’t considered dangerous are released to the custody of their parents.Obviously, with the ridiculous murder one charge, he’d be considered dangerous.
Amen. His pluses outweighed his minuses a thousand to one.
the guy who was shot and lived will now always be known as the “one armed dude”
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That guy needs to be convicted for his crimes that night and bankrupted. I can think of other names for him that are unfit to print here.
Yes, ... the blood of the deceased and injured punk mercenaries not from Kenosha is on the hands of the mayor and governor. Had they done their jobs, enforced the law and made a show of force ... none of this would have happened. These two politicians are despicable.
That being said, the system has to work its process now. I have no doubt there will be a trial. Hopefully this kid will be acquitted.
I’d like to know if he had a registered gun, and does he have conceal carry in WI? Of course the DA won’t go there because it will further undermine his case.
Come on, guys. Look at the videos. That attacker did NOT “get his arm shot off” or “his upper arm blown off.” It was just a large-cavity soft tissue wound— the part of the skin and muscle, mostly biceps, just above the inner crook of the arm (front part of elbow joint area), that is, the distal biceps area just proximal to the antecubital fossa. There appeared to be no fracture at all of the arm bone (humerous) or elbow joint at all—the entire right upper extremity had normal appearing structural integrity (no weird angles, no floppiness, no abnormal bending, no exposed bone), and he was still gripping and had control of his handgun. That’s just a very typical soft tissue wound from a high velocity round at an angle in and almost immediately out of soft tissue only. There still could be a fracture of the humerus, but if so, it was salvageable.
https://twitter.com/HAv2RtrnVdeoTps/status/1299156806405627905/photo/1
Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) Tweeted:
GRAPHIC: A friend of the man who rushed at the #Kenosha teen with a pistol and was shot in the arm has posted an update about his status. Doctors were able to save Gaige Grosskreutz’s right arm. The friend says Gaige regrets not being able to kill the teen. https://t.co/2gJmnnroTF
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