Also, given that friends and half his family lived there, he had more of a connection to the area than any of the violent, destructive scumbags rioting there. I can’t blame him for wanting to protect his community, especially one that the police abandoned when rioting began.
It is literally courageous to do good when so means putting yourself at risk. And that’s what he did. Since the moment he arrived at the area where rioting was going on, all of the evidence available shows him doing only good and altruistic things. He cleaned graffiti, he handed out water bottles, he gave first aid, he put out fires. He didn’t attack anyone, or threaten anyone, or even counter-protest. This is why nobody reacted negatively to his presence, obviously/visibly armed and all. There’s a reason no one freaked out when he showed up: because he was causing no trouble.
But after he’d been doing his thing for a while, he put out one particularly crazy individual’s dumpster fire. In response, he had his life verbally threatened, and soon after, literally/physically threatened, by said crazy individual.
Did Rittenhouse escalate or push back against that aggression? No. He fled. But the maniac did not let him run away. He chases him, and eventually cornered him. Then he lunged for Rittenhouse’s weapon. Three guesses what this man, who had literally screamed “I’m going to kill you” to Rittenhouse moments before, was planning on doing with that weapon, had he gotten a hold of it. Luckily, he was able to protect his own life from that maniac.
Then, he headed toward the police line to report what had happened. He said literally that when he was confronted and asked where he was going. In response, maniac 2 tried to kill him with his skateboard. He successfully struck him in the head, knocking Rittenhouse to the ground, but luckily was stopped before he could follow through with his second swing. Also luckily, the first strike didn’t kill him; a skateboard is plenty hard and heavy enough to kill someone with a fool force swing to the head.
Then, a third maniac pointed his illegally-possessed handgun at Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse reacted quickly and pointed his weapon at him also. In response, the maniac lowered his weapon. But it was a fake surrender, and when he thought he’d caught Rittenhouse unaware, he brought the gun back up and pointed it at his head. Luckily, Rittenhouse’s reaction time was fast enough to notice and fire first, injuring the maniac’s arm and eliminating the threat to his life. Then he immediately removed his finger from the trigger and returned to his feet, and resumed going to the police line. He reached it, and told authorities what had happened.
None of the above is a “take” or my opinion, it’s all established fact, in correct chronological order.
The only people remaining who think Rittenhouse did anything immoral or criminal on that day in Kenosha, are liars or the willfully ignorant. There is SO much evidence, up to and including video, that no other conclusion can be reasonably reached about said people.
Thugs should not riot, and members of communities being attacked by rioters are perfectly justified in protecting and preserving their communities to the extent they’re able and willing to, especially when the authorities they should be able to rely on to keep order, have completely abandoned that duty.
The rioters, and only the rioters, are the intruders. Blaming any member of that community for being present in their community while shitheads are wrecking up the place is absurd victim blaming and nothing more.
The comparison of a child being armed and forcibly thrown into the fray of a riot is an especially ridiculous false analogy. Also, a lot of that “property” is small businesses which literally are people’s livelihoods. They’re not just random buildings. You don’t have to kill someone to ruin their life, you know.
Let’s not pretend we don’t both know how blatantly obtuse you’re being.
Kyle Rittenhouse made the decision to go and try to protect his community, on his own. No one forced him. He also chose to legally arm himself for his own protection, as a precaution (a decision that proved to be very prudent). Then he went into town and spent hours repairing rioters’ property damage, and helped anyone in need who took him up on his offers of bottled water and basic medical aid.
Sounds like the perfect place for a 17 year old kid.
It was courageous of him to go to a potentially dangerous place like that just to try and undo some of the rioters’ damage. I’d rather a thousand of him be there, than any amount of the thugs who did things like burn down local businesses, and assault and injure people trying to stop them from doing so, even if it’s an elderly employee in his 70s holding nothing but a fire extinguisher.
Also, given that friends and half his family lived there, he had more of a connection to the area than any of the violent, destructive scumbags rioting there. I can’t blame him for wanting to protect his community, especially one that the police abandoned when rioting began.
It’s not courageous to allow and encourage a 17 year old kid to be put in a dangerous situation where he may be killed to protect some property.
That’s a garbage take.
It is literally courageous to do good when so means putting yourself at risk. And that’s what he did. Since the moment he arrived at the area where rioting was going on, all of the evidence available shows him doing only good and altruistic things. He cleaned graffiti, he handed out water bottles, he gave first aid, he put out fires. He didn’t attack anyone, or threaten anyone, or even counter-protest. This is why nobody reacted negatively to his presence, obviously/visibly armed and all. There’s a reason no one freaked out when he showed up: because he was causing no trouble.
But after he’d been doing his thing for a while, he put out one particularly crazy individual’s dumpster fire. In response, he had his life verbally threatened, and soon after, literally/physically threatened, by said crazy individual.
Did Rittenhouse escalate or push back against that aggression? No. He fled. But the maniac did not let him run away. He chases him, and eventually cornered him. Then he lunged for Rittenhouse’s weapon. Three guesses what this man, who had literally screamed “I’m going to kill you” to Rittenhouse moments before, was planning on doing with that weapon, had he gotten a hold of it. Luckily, he was able to protect his own life from that maniac.
Then, he headed toward the police line to report what had happened. He said literally that when he was confronted and asked where he was going. In response, maniac 2 tried to kill him with his skateboard. He successfully struck him in the head, knocking Rittenhouse to the ground, but luckily was stopped before he could follow through with his second swing. Also luckily, the first strike didn’t kill him; a skateboard is plenty hard and heavy enough to kill someone with a fool force swing to the head.
Then, a third maniac pointed his illegally-possessed handgun at Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse reacted quickly and pointed his weapon at him also. In response, the maniac lowered his weapon. But it was a fake surrender, and when he thought he’d caught Rittenhouse unaware, he brought the gun back up and pointed it at his head. Luckily, Rittenhouse’s reaction time was fast enough to notice and fire first, injuring the maniac’s arm and eliminating the threat to his life. Then he immediately removed his finger from the trigger and returned to his feet, and resumed going to the police line. He reached it, and told authorities what had happened.
None of the above is a “take” or my opinion, it’s all established fact, in correct chronological order.
The only people remaining who think Rittenhouse did anything immoral or criminal on that day in Kenosha, are liars or the willfully ignorant. There is SO much evidence, up to and including video, that no other conclusion can be reasonably reached about said people.
Say it with me now: 17 year old kids should not attend deadly riots.
Thugs should not riot, and members of communities being attacked by rioters are perfectly justified in protecting and preserving their communities to the extent they’re able and willing to, especially when the authorities they should be able to rely on to keep order, have completely abandoned that duty.
The rioters, and only the rioters, are the intruders. Blaming any member of that community for being present in their community while shitheads are wrecking up the place is absurd victim blaming and nothing more.
That’s all there is to it.
Just say the racial epithet.
Uh… are you implying only one race was doing the rioting? Wow, you guys really are shameless.
I’m noticing what you were implying.
And police shouldn’t murder people – how far back do you want to go?
You’re advocating for arming children and sending them in to defend property. That’s fucked, my guy.
The comparison of a child being armed and forcibly thrown into the fray of a riot is an especially ridiculous false analogy. Also, a lot of that “property” is small businesses which literally are people’s livelihoods. They’re not just random buildings. You don’t have to kill someone to ruin their life, you know.
Let’s not pretend we don’t both know how blatantly obtuse you’re being.
Kyle Rittenhouse made the decision to go and try to protect his community, on his own. No one forced him. He also chose to legally arm himself for his own protection, as a precaution (a decision that proved to be very prudent). Then he went into town and spent hours repairing rioters’ property damage, and helped anyone in need who took him up on his offers of bottled water and basic medical aid.
He did literally nothing wrong that day.
You’re so full of shit to act like he wasn’t there to get into trouble and larp as medic.
You’re right, he wasn’t forced. So he should have stayed the fuck home.
Instead he entered a predicable situation, and predictably, it turned deadly.