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Big Crazy feeding the Little Crazy |
Mod: The dog whistles have become fire alarms, and the streets are now in flames.
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January (
Buzz Feed News link): The law enforcement–obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in
Kenosha,
Wisconsin, during protests for
Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a
Donald Trump rally in January.
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse’s social media presence is filled with him posing with weapons, posting “
Blue Lives Matter,” and supporting
Trump for president.
Footage from the
Des Moines,
Iowa, rally on Jan. 30 shows
Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a
TikTok video from the event.
Seven months later,
Rittenhouse went with his rifle to the third night of
Black Lives Matter protests in
Kenosha after police shot
Blake, a
Black man who is now paralyzed as a result, according to his family.
Rittenhouse attended as an armed vigilante, supposedly assisting police and protecting property in an unofficial capacity. Instead, he allegedly prowled the protest with a gun. Videos captured him fraternizing with law enforcement and attempting to get their attention.
By the end of the evening, he was considered a fugitive on the run. He was arrested Wednesday morning in
Antioch,
Illinois, and is expected to be extradited to
Wisconsin to face charges of first-degree intentional homicide.
Rittenhouse’s mother did not respond to a request for comment. The
Lake County Public Defender’s Office, who represented him in court today, told
BuzzFeed News it does not comment on active cases.
Wednesday’s arrest record from
Antioch police states that
Rittenhouse “fled the state of
Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for the offense.” According to public records,
Rittenhouse lived in
Antioch, which is about 20 miles away from
Kenosha, with his mother and siblings and worked as a lifeguard at the local
YMCA.
Mod: Much more at the link. The next story deals with a reprehensible Fox News dirtbag who is obviously feeding off these murders.
Tucker Carlson Justifies Kenosha Shootings: Vigilante Kid Did What ‘No One Else Would’ (
The Daily Beast link):
Tucker Carlson on Wednesday rallied to the defense of vigilante kid
Kyle Rittenhouse, who allegedly shot and killed two protesters in
Kenosha,
Wisc., on Tuesday night, telling his
Fox News viewers that the 17-year-old merely “decided to maintain order when no one else would.” Earlier on Wednesday,
Rittenhouse was arrested in Illinois and charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the slaying of two people and the injuring of another during Tuesday night’s protest over the police shooting of
Jacob Blake.
The teenager—whose social-media profiles were rife with
Blue Lives Matter content—reportedly traveled to
Kenosha and co-mingled with other armed vigilantes looking to protect local businesses.
Carlson, whose racist rhetoric and fear-mongering over the
Black Lives Matter movement has sparked internal turmoil at
Fox, began his broadcast by grumbling that “big media organizations do their best to downplay” the violence around the country while airing footage of chaos in
Kenosha.
The
Fox News star went on to show a video clip of a victim dying of a gunshot wound to the head, noting that
Rittenhouse has been charged with his murder. At the same time, he portrayed the teenaged gunman as a victim himself. Saying he was “unsure” what the video of Rittenhouse shooting two individuals amounts to, Carlson said a court will decide if it “qualifies as self-defense” before seemingly justifying the suspected gunman’s vigilante-style tactics.
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