First of all, crossing a state line when you think there might be deadly force involved is best left to professional rioters.
Secondly, defending your own property from rioters is also far easier to sell to a jury than randomly showing up far from home.
Nonetheless, the criminal complaint against Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot several "mostly peaceful" rioters in Kenosha provides pretty strong evidence of lawful self-defense, once he put his mouth into the lion's mouth.
The criminal complaint relies on a statement from a journalist for the Daily Caller that the first dead rioter confronted Rittenhouse, throwing stuff at him, then tried to wrestle the rifle away from Rittenhouse, at which point he shot thug and accidentally shot the reporter.
Subsequent shots were fired as the mob chased and surrounded Rittenhouse. The second rioter had a skateboard in his hands while attempting to disarm Rittenhouse. (It's time for skateboard control!) The third rioter shot had a handgun in his hand at the time.
This seems like an easy self-defense claim, but Kenosha is a public university town. I suspect therefore that "being armed while Republican" is a capital crime.
8/27/20 New York Daily News tells us more about the victims:
Online arrest records show Huber was arrested several times on battery, drugs and other charges. Rosenbaum had an open criminal case on battery, disorderly conduct and domestic abuse charges, according to the Wisconsin Circuit Court website. His previous record could not immediately be confirmed.
Captain's Journal has a screen capture of Rosenbaum's sex offender registry page. Try and find that on lamestream news. Interesting, he was in Kenosha for his job as a lifeguard.
His law firm put out a statement, Rittenhouse was working that day in Kenosha as a lifeguard, after his shift joined the graffiti cleanup crew at the local public high school, then was supplied his rifle in Wisconsin for the purposes of saving what was left of an auto dealer, "including two nearby mechanic’s shops".
ReplyDeleteThis latest account says the precipitating event was the most out of control rioter getting upset that Rittenhouse had provided a fire extingusher that had put out a fire in a dumpster the rioter had pushed up against another building. Rittenhouse was then going to protect another mechanic’s shop when the chase began. The closing comments by Herschal Smith.
This may be one of the most videographed CQB events in history. Kyle won. That makes them angry. It makes Antifa/BLM angry, and it makes the Kenosha DA angry.
Maybe Rittenhouse should have gone back home that day after his shift. But without men like him, how much of US civilization is going to be left standing as Antifa/BLM/RevCom sweep through the nation?
Lawyer's statement.
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Related article. Note that Nick Sandmann's attorney Lin Wood and Pierce Bainbridge founder John Pierce set up a legal defense fund for Rittenhouse.
https://wkow.com/2020/08/28/attorneys-say-accused-kenosha-shooter-acted-in-self-defense/
"once he put his mouth into the lion's mouth."
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Jeff: noticed that almost soon as I posted it. You must have seen it immediately.
ReplyDeleteThe criminal complaint relies on a statement from a journalist for the Daily Caller that the first dead rioter confronted Rittenhouse, throwing stuff at him, then tried to wrestle the rifle away from Rittenhouse, at which point he shot thug and accidentally shot the reporter.
ReplyDeleteSubsequent shots were fired as the mob chased and surrounded Rittenhouse.
The wielders of weaponized autism have discovered a lot more since you posted this and most of us replied. Check the blog of my above first link (but be warned the picture of Rittenhouse destroying the last attacker's upper right arm is necessarily gory; it's important in demonstrating the latter's feigned surrender had turned into him being inches from lining up his handgun with Rittenhouse's head).
Outline of additional details from memory:
The reporter at most appears to have gotten hit by a fragment of something, or a very superficial graze. Rittenhouse appears to have fired 4 rounds in quick succession at the first attacker, 3 hitting.
Later when he was on the ground, he was first attacked by someone doing a jump kick which looks to have connected (maybe the lawyer has claimed that). Rittenhouse got off a shot, from a still it looks like it might have been roughly straight up parallel to the attacker (the video will tell), who along with other pursuers decided to back off, and Rittenhouse didn't shoot anyone who wasn't in contact distance or a few feet more, actively attacking, and the first two trying to take his rifle.
Next came the skateboard wielder, who landed what could have been a fatal hit if he were more competent, after that, one shot to the chest did him in. Then came (if I remember correctly) "my hands are up in surrender, ignore than I'm continuing to approach you while holding a gun in my right one."
3 attackers at the end, 1 shot fired each, 16 additional shots have been counted during the whole sequence from we're not entirely sure except for the first one (see linked blog, that shooter who fired up in the air could be an Antifa leader). Also appears to clear a jam or what have you; Rittenhouse did better than probably any of us who haven't practiced a lot with an evil black rifle, once he went mouth to mouth with a bunch of Antifa lions :-).
And a lot of people are reconsidering the merits of single point slings; without one, Rittenhouse might not have retained his rifle and per the last "victim" would
have been shot and killed. With a multipoint sling he probably wouldn't have been able to shoot at so many crazy angles and would have been killed. Note all 3 "victims" appear to have been felons, and obviously were crazy and/or drugged up enough to attack someone armed with an AR-15, and contra the claims of the cuck reporter, every still I've seen of Rittenhouse shows him properly handling it.