Posted on 08/29/2020 7:47:29 PM PDT by sickoflibs
Subtitle :"'Kyle did nothing wrong. He exercised his God-given, Constitutional, common law and statutory law right to self-defense,' defense attorney John Pierce said."
A 17-year-old charged in two shooting deaths amid a chaotic demonstration in Kenosha, Wis., earlier this week feared for his life after being attacked by rioters who chased and beat him, his attorney said Friday.
In a lengthy statement, the lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse, John Pierce, said prosecutors rushed to judgment in charging his client to appease "divisive" and "destructive" forces without analyzing Tuesday's events.
"This was not a serious investigation," Pierce said. "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."
The shootings were recorded via cellphone and circulated online.
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IBTZ
The local TV propagandist (oops i mean reporter) informed me that the saintly guy who ended up dead was merely trying to “disarm” Rittenhouse (not beat the crap out of him).
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