There’s a lot of attention to the shooting of multiple people last night in Kenosha.
Police have arrested 17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse and charged him with murder.
Liberals are already off to the races, calling him a “white supremacist” murderer and of course, always blaming President Donald Trump. Of course there is nothing to support this, his background simply suggests he was supportive of the police.
But if you look at the video, there are likely going to be big problems with legally trying to make that stick.
While all the facts are not yet clear, enough facts have come out to suggest that he may have been protecting himself, the question may be was his response a legally proportionate response to the attacks on him.
If you look at the video progression of what happened that we have available, the first video shows Rittenhouse allegedly running into a service station, being chased and attacked, with something being thrown something at him. That first shooting happens, he calls someone, possibly 911 while the Daily Caller’s Richie McGinness tries to give medical aid to the guy who was shot, taking off his shirt to use to staunch the bleeding in his head.
Another angle of the shooting and moments after. Can see @RichieMcGinniss and others on scene giving aid. He was right next to the victim when the shooting happened.pic.twitter.com/CVfdc1DIQx
— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) August 26, 2020
Here’s a video sync that breaks it down.
WATCH: A video sync of the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting in Kenosha, WI with multiple camera angles and object highlights. pic.twitter.com/61XMCdHcmK
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 26, 2020
Rittenhouse then leaves, being chased by multiple people, he’s thereafter attacked by one man with a skateboard and another pulls a gun on him, and he allegedly shoots them, killing one.
BREAKING: as the shooter fled the scene to surrender to the police
BLM rioters attacked him, he then fired back over what appears to be a scuffle to get control of his weapon
Details are still unclear. I was up front on the initial shooting only
pic.twitter.com/tB7O2JKUUn— ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) August 26, 2020
This picture shows that at least one of those two people who confronted him had a handgun.
Guy that was shot in the arm was still holding his pistol. Was the "militia guy" murdering or defending. Video shows him running away before firing. pic.twitter.com/bE0ZOJtEwQ
— PachucoBro (@PachucoBro) August 26, 2020
Earlier, he gave interviews to two separate reporters about what he was doing there, armed in Kenosha.
As he explains in one interview to the Daily Caller’s Richie McGinness, he was there to help protect the businesses and to help people who get hurt with his medic bag, that he may be “running into harm’s way that’s why he has his rifle.”
I interviewed the alleged shooter before the violence started.
Full video coming soon: pic.twitter.com/G3dVOJozN7
— Richie🎥McG🍿 (@RichieMcGinniss) August 26, 2020
Elijah Schaefer also interviewed him.
CONTEXT: I spoke with the alleged shooter earlier in the night who stated he was there to protect property
He did not make racist comments, condemn #BLM, or mention political motivations for his actions
He said that he was there to protect property & was carrying a firearm pic.twitter.com/ViYUB65tiy
— ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) August 26, 2020
Schaefer says that he was offering medic help to BLM people so that it’s unlikely he’s a “white supremacist.”
The #KenoshaRiot shooter was offering medical help to #BLM rioters earlier in the night
So the whole premise that he was a white supremacist or the shooting took place due to political disagreements become more difficult to prove
Also, he stated why he was armed and there https://t.co/ThS1B0Royo
— ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) August 26, 2020
That’s weird, I have him on video offering medical help to BLM rioters
It’s such a weird world where we have black white supremacists
Jewish Nazis, and now white supremacists who offer aid to Black Lives Matter & kill white people
He sure sucks at white supremacy-ing https://t.co/zkovwYWQ8r
— ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) August 26, 2020
While police have now charged him with first degree murder, it’s going to be challenging to make that stick, given the circumstances. Police may re-evaluate once they see all these videos.
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