August 27, 2020

"While Mr. Rittenhouse is being pursued by the group, an unknown gunman fires into the air, though it’s unclear why."

"The weapon’s muzzle flash appears in footage filmed at the scene. Mr. Rittenhouse turns toward the sound of gunfire as another pursuer lunges toward him from the same direction. Mr. Rittenhouse then fires four times, and appears to shoot the man in the head. Mr. Rittenhouse seems to make a phone call and then flees the scene. Several people chase him, some shouting, 'That’s the shooter!' As Mr. Rittenhouse is running, he trips and falls to the ground. He fires four shots as three people rush toward him. One person appears to be hit in the chest and falls to the ground. Another, who is carrying a handgun, is hit in the arm and runs away. Mr. Rittenhouse’s gunfire is mixed in with the sound of at least 16 other gunshots that ring out during this time. As this happens, police vehicles just one block away remain stationary during the gunfire. Mr. Rittenhouse walks with his hands up toward the police vehicles. Bystanders call out to the officers that he had just shot people. The police drive by him without stopping, on their way to assist the victims."

From "Tracking the Suspect in the Fatal Kenosha Shootings/Footage appears to show a teenager shooting three people during protests in Wisconsin. We tracked his movements that night" (NYT).

The Times passes along this video by Daily Caller reporter Richie McGinniss:


AND: I ran across this — for what it's worth:

The short, bellicose, bald man in the maroon T-shirt appears to be Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, who was the first person to die. Here he is taunting "Shoot me, n-----":

195 comments:

rehajm said...

What's this 'we' stuff NYT? The twitterverse scooped you on the play by play and analysis yesterday.

Guess it's informative for those folks what don't believe anything that isn't in the NYT...

Paywall and all but I suspect they made the story palatable for it's readers by embellish...er...adding more 'truth.

Drago said...

The armed felons and rioters attacking people and looting and destroying cities are surprised that others can show up armed as well.

Not to worry lefties.

Joe Biden has now officially declared all the riots were created and sustained by Donald Trump to help in his reelection!

Congratulations! Your changing narratives have finally hit upon an interation where you can now criticize the violent marxist rioters!

Not a moment too soon I'd say, eh?

rhhardin said...

It's all entertainment to everybody. Watchers, participants, soap opera fans, legal experts, the underclass. The underclass is having a ball.

The interesting high-brow narrative is that civil society agrees to a state monopoly on violence, and here the state has withdrawn its promised protection of them. Where does the narrative go when the state uses violence on the citizens who take defense on themselves, the most incautious ones first of course. Maybe a story of hard-nosed prosecutors vs. jury nullification, a reminder to the state of its agreed responsibilities.

Freeman Hunt said...

It was fascinating to watch a video of this incident on Twitter soon after it occurred and then to read the reporting of the same incident the following morning. The reporting line was that a right-wing guy started executing protestors. Journalism is dead. Pravda in service to Wokeism.

rhhardin said...

Scott Adams blames teachers' unions. I blame not teaching good character. Run inner city schools more like military schools for a start.

Sebastian said...

Preview of coming attractions.

The rest of us have more to lose. We don't want civil war. Etc. etc.

We are holding back. But there comes a point when it's not just would-be vigilante kids standing up and responding.

Law enforcement protects the criminals and rioters first and foremost. Either the authorities establish order, or it will be established another way.

wild chicken said...

Too many short, bald, roided-up men looking for a fight.

Ken B said...

Good work by these NYT reporters. Will they get the Bari Weiss treatment?

rhhardin said...

The whole thing is a little bit boring, and so are the free movies on Amazon Prime. So many spend so long laying pipe and then the initial developments signal long stretches of boredome dealing with uninteresting combinations.

And the Amazon suggesting software doesn't take into account that you bailed out way early and gives you more and more of the same crap to try.

Silk was good though.

We need another outrageous development in black protests right away.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Guess what? Biden-Pelosi send in more/inspire more antifa nazi toddler mobs -- while leftwing mayors and governors insist police stand down. We are going to see more ordinary Americas with guns stand in to protect property from arson by leftwing mobs/leftwing terrorists.

Biden is now out there signaling to the leftwing goon-squad to keep it up.

gerry said...

The Democrats' internal polling must be getting really bad.

Nonapod said...

This is only going to get worse until something is done. Law and order must be reestablished. How is this not obvious to everyone? Why are violent riots allowed night after night? Why is this base criminality being excused, ignored, and downplayed?

Browndog said...

The only people covering these riots and citizen journalists and independent journalist. The NYT and WAPO piggy back off the eye-witness reporting to Voxsplain the news, telling you what you can plainly see with your own two eyes.

Why?

Because they have no actual reporting, and don't want people to notice. Which is why google will only direct search traffic to legacy media, as if they are the source.

stonethrower said...

Try to picture how all this ends.

Rabel said...

At 49 seconds, in the first Drew Hernandez video, on the left - what the hell is that guy carrying?

A BFG?

Roughcoat said...

His dying wish. Granted, scumbag.

WisRich said...

“Rushed toward him”? More like attacked him

Gusty Winds said...

"Mr. Rittenhouse is running, he trips and falls to the ground. He fires four shots as three people rush toward him. One person appears to be hit in the chest and falls to the ground."

They left out the part where this guy hit him in the head with a skateboard before being shot.

"Mr. Rittenhouse turns toward the sound of gunfire as another pursuer lunges toward him from the same direction. Mr. Rittenhouse then fires four times, and appears to shoot the man in the head."

They left out the part where the guy shot in the head was trying to light a car on fire at the dealership Master Rittenhouse was protecting.

It's the NYTs. They gaslight and lie like CNN.

5M - Eckstine said...

From the shipwrecked crew video montage it looked to me like the shooter was chased and physically attacked by a skateboard wielder before he shot back. All the victims had violent histories. We might want to consider drug testing these antifa types. It looks like they are all just out of jail and high on meth. nothing good comes from treating them as peaceful protesters.

Its a let down in civility to the extent where a teenager feels threatened enough to arm themselves to protect a business. That is the job of the Mayor of that town. The Mayor has exhibited no leadership. The Mayor shouldn't be in a leadership position.

Gusty Winds said...

Is it too soon to point out that Mr. Rosenbaum got exactly what he requested?

Expat(ish) said...

This is what I've been worried about all along.

These crowds of dopes have been trying to create a Kent State moment to make OrangeManBad leave office. They missed the key lesson from Kent state - if the shooters don't stop, most of you will die.

I am appalled and horrified by the property damage, but I'm really worried about a massacre.

-XC

NYC JournoList said...

The gas station confrontation is at three hour and four minute mark. The first shooting is 36 minutes later. See the whole night if you like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAMZpQfW3Bk&feature=youtu.be&has_verified=1

traditionalguy said...

Reminds Americans of a small militia once awaiting an invasion by a military force invading their town. I recall the orders given to them were not to fire on them, “...but if they want war, let it begin here” , said Captain John Parker to his minutemen on April 19, 1775 on Lexington Green in Massachusetts. And from there White Privilege began.

clint said...

A white, 36-year-old sex offender screams "Shoot me, n***a." over and over at the top of his lungs.

House Rep. Ayanna Pressley describes him as someone "who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives."

How much stranger can this year get?

Gusty Winds said...

Democrat Gov. Tony Evers failed all these people. Rittenhouse, Rosenbaum…all of them. The editorial in the Kenosha News condemning his inflaming rhetoric, lack of action and response to Kenosha’s requests for help are laid at his feet. Although he is such a cuck, he doesn’t make a move without Maggie Gau, his 32-year-old Chief of Staff who is the real Governor running Wisconsin into the ground.

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Roughcoat said...

Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, against violent criminals, and I will contribute to any defense fund set up for him.

daskol said...

What comes after vigilantes? Is there something like the grief stages for this "mindless destruction?" Because watch out Sheboygan.

Original Mike said...

"Mr. Rittenhouse then fires four times, and appears to shoot the man in the head."

I have yet to be able to discern that. I hear the shots, but I can't see what's going on. Maybe there's a video I haven't seen.

pacwest said...

How much stranger can this year get?

Oddly enough I have turtles on my 2020 bingo card. Don't ask, I don't have a clue.

DavidUW said...

Once again he should get a medal

SensibleCitizen said...

It is bizarre how the segregationist eugenicist position has merged with woke ideology. Or maybe it never diverged. It goes something like this:

"Because of two centuries of slavery, blacks in America are uneducated, unable to care for themselves, and their young men are violently aggressive."

Is the solution to self-segregate and let them annihilate themselves? No... that didn't work. Black Americans were outperforming the white underclass -- until the Democrats started pumping welfare into their neighborhoods, the teacher's unions ruined their schools, and the eugenicist (Margaret Sanger) started putting abortion clinics on every corner.

At least the Democrats are consistent.

Temujin said...

The tip of the iceberg, folks. Whoever wanted this country to split apart is getting their wish.

I do hope there is a place for all the Althousians when the split occurs.

Jim at said...

We are holding back. But there comes a point when it's not just would-be vigilante kids standing up and responding.

That's pretty much what I was saying in an earlier thread. A 17-year-old kid did this. What do you leftists think is going to happen when older, more-experienced and better-trained people decide they've had enough?

Because that moment is approaching faster than you think ... if you're thinking at all.

hawkeyedjb said...

Two things that are bad, and almost always make matters worse than what preceded them: Riots and vigilantism. Both are the result of the withdrawal of lawful authority. In almost every case, authorities in the USA this year have refused to provide the citizenry with protection from riots and rioters. What comes next is awful but perfectly predictable.

I'm astonished that citizens of Portland haven't even made the first move to take things into their own hands. The rioters should consider themselves lucky, so far. But then the good citizens of that city elected Ted Wheeler, so they - like their mayor - may think the whole thing pretty cool. God help 'em, it isn't going to "burn out" like the mayor hopes. It's more likely to explode out.

Gospace said...

The one shot in the head? I'm waiting to see the postmortem on him. I read yesterday he had an entry wound, no exit wound. A 5.56 at that range- the heroes gun- there wouldn't be much of a head left as the bullet exited. At least that's what everyone who knows something about them says. Look at the shredded arm. Do you think a head would look any better?

He may not have shot that guy. Prosecutor is going to be awful embarrasses if that's the case.

Gusty Winds said...

Its amazing Rittenhouse actually hit three people. Unlike the riflemen who guarded CHAZ at the request of their local rapping warlord, Rittenhouse new how to handle and shoot a gun. People get nervous and miss deer when it's in their sights. It’s quite amazing that a 17-year-old in that situation, all video recorded, was able to maintain enough composure to hit his targets. It’s not easy. The people who got shot were fools. So is our Governor Tony Evers.

hawkeyedjb said...

"Because watch out Sheboygan."

I used to live there. It's a mostly white, mostly working-class place in which the residents - at least all the ones I knew - were heavily armed. So maybe, watch out rioters.

Michael K said...

This is what happens when people like Inga get what they want. They have never heard of unexpected consequences. Plus, they never watched "Death Wish."

Jim at said...

These crowds of dopes have been trying to create a Kent State moment to make OrangeManBad leave office.

What a lot of people forget about Kent State is that it happened in 1970. And what happened in 1972?

Michael K said...

Roughcoat said...
Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, against violent criminals, and I will contribute to any defense fund set up for him.


I sent money yo Stacey Koon's family while he was in prison on the double jeopardy conviction.

If these cases go to the feds, it will be the only way we ever see justice.

rehajm said...

All the victims had violent histories.

When you're a convicted felon and/or in the sex offender registry, rioting is a job that pays well. All cash dollars, too! No need to convert Euros...

Yancey Ward said...

Just disgusting that the NYTimes leaves out the part where one of the dead guys hit/tried to hit Rittenhouse in the head with skateboard. Seriously- the writer has the fucking video right there in front of him, or at least claims to have watched it like Inga did yesterday.

William said...

At first glance, Rittenhouse looks like a decent enough kid. There's no way of viewing Rosenbaum as anything but an asshole. Nonetheless, Rittenhouse's life is effectively ruined, and Rosenbaum will join the list of holy martyrs. It's quite a list. Well, at least I can call Rosenbaum a scumbag and not be accused of racism.

Matt Sablan said...

I want to know if the phony medical's gun had been fired.

narciso said...

he's in the hands of the creole obama, raoul, that's nearly as bad as keith ellison,

BarrySanders20 said...

Someone shot a handgun behind Rittenhouse and Dead Guy #1 Rosenbaum when Rosenbaum was chasing him and seconds before Rittenhouse ventilated Rosenbaum's temple. I bet he thought he was being shot at. (Interesting that Rosenbaum is a convected sex offender who did 12.5 years in jail). No more sex offending for him.

Later, Dead Guy #2 Skateboard Dude runs up from behind and swings his board at Rittenhouse's head, barely misses, and then tries to take the gun. He grabs it by the barrel, but it has a sling attached to Rittenhouse, so as soon as the sling tightens, the muzzle is pointing directly at Skateboard Dude's stomach and it looks like the gun goes off, maybe because Rittenhouse still has his finger on the trigger of a gun that is being pulled away from him. (Interesting that Skateboard Dude has domestic abuse convictions). He made several bad decisions and will no longer have the opportunity to abuse, foreign or domestic.

Guy #3 had a handgun and was 3 feet away and, after pretending to surrender, certainly looked like he was going to use it when Rittenhouse fired a round that permanently "disarmed" him.

That's what I see.

Krumhorn said...

It's hard to visualize how all this ends with a generally acceptable outcome. Since resistance by any means necessary is the leftie mantra, a Trump win in November will likely ignite the afterburners. Even a 40 state sweep that amounts to a repudiation of the lefties will just signal that they have to yell louder and even more aggressively in order to wake up the unwoke.

We don't need to speculate on the outcome of a Biden win. Sarajevo comes to mind.

- Krumhorn

Megaera said...

There was gunfire from other sources at the time the headshot guy was dropped, and at least once source was quoted as reporting KR said he didn't shoot him. It will be interesting to see the ballistics report from the PM.

As for the pretend "medic" (pretty sure felons don't get EMS certification, even in Wisconsin, and they for sure aren't allowed to pack heat when working) I have seen not a byte of video showing him ministering to a single soul, so the whole "medic" thing seems to have been a lie for his personal benefit. Irony Alert: he was reported to be toting a tourniquet around, which the real first responders actually used on him.

Drago said...

And now LLR-lefty Chuck and his antifa/democrat/media pals are totally screwed.

After GoFundMe shut down the legal defense fund for the Justified Shooter, Lin Wood has announced he is taking the case on for free.

Lin Wood was destined to retire a few years back and take it easy.

But ever since he saw what LLR-lefty Chuck's beloved leftist media and politicians are doing to conservatives, he decided to fight against those lefties instead.

And now, hot off victories over Chuck's media pals in the Covington case, Lin Wood will be taking on those same loser lefties again!

And unlike Chuck, Lin Wood is a real attorney with real victories under his belt.

Inga said...

All those guns. How many times have I heard that an armed society is a polite society?

Michael K said...

Linn Wood, the lawyer who represented the Covington kids, has now offered to help the 17 year old, Rittenhouse. More civil rights than criminal defense.

whitney said...

He randomly shot and got a pedophile and a domestic abuser. These are Charming people

chickelit said...

So if armed citizens are defending themselves and others, why the hell do those communities continue to pay the do-nothing police? That seems unsustainable - both fiscally and physically.

Roughcoat said...

Evers, and his failure to confront the situation, reminds me of the scene in the 1971 movie "Nicholas and Alexandra" when the Queen Mother Maria Fedorova visits her son in 1916 at his military headquarters to berate him for his failures to act decisively against the Central Powers and in dealing with mounting internal strife:


Queen Mother Maria Fedorova: I wish your father were alive.

Tsar Nicholas II: Don't throw him at me.

Queen Mother Maria Fedorova: He knew how to be a Tsar. He'd have burned Vienna down, stomped on the Germans, and shot the strikers, ANYTHING to give Russia peace. And HE'D certainly would've known how to deal with Rasputin.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

The collective left are calling Rittenhouse a "white supremacist"

On what grounds? anyone who shows up to protect private property is a white supremacist now?

Shooting in Kenosha Just the Beginning of Civil War in America Says Prediction Expert

Team Biden pouring gas on the fire.

Meade said...

"What a lot of people forget about Kent State is that it happened in 1970. And what happened in 1972?"

Democrat presidential candidate, Joe Biden, I mean, George McGovern loses every state except Massachusetts.

Inga said...
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Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Freeman Hunt - Journalism is dead.

It was dead the day they attacked Nick Sadnman for a look on his face.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

I just got bitched out by my Trump-hating wife after she saw the last few seconds of the video where Rittenhouse walks right by the Kenosha cops and is not arrested. (Because he was White and the Kenosha cops are racists!)

I was told that all of this was Trumps fault because he wouldn't stop tweeting.

I was also told that this heralds the coming of a new dawn where middle-aged White men, like me, will become pariahs and that I will probably never be employed again.

I take all of this as a sign that Trump is going to win...Bigly!

Jupiter said...

"Roughcoat said...
Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, against violent criminals, and I will contribute to any defense fund set up for him."

At least three GoFundMe's have been set up for that purpose, and GoFundMe has closed down all of them. Meanwhile, they fund BLM and have accounts set up for the vermin Rittenhouse had to shoot. GoFundMe is Left Fascist scum. If you contribute to a GoFundMe, be sure to tip $0.00.

5M - Eckstine said...

It's a string being pulled tight into a knot.

Once tightened all the internet influences will know where they fall. Also will all the voters.

Violence is a boundary. People will make a conscious choice. Freedom for all comes only with one of these candidates for president. Hilary is one of the biggest anti American scoundrels out there. She can't bear an election loss. Says burn it all down. She has no boundaries or decency.

Yancey Ward said...

LMAO at you, Inga.

You did notice, didn't you, that there were exactly two incidents there, one of which was a traffic violation? Why didn't you just write, was arrested for operating a firearm while smoking pot?

Drago said...

Inga comes out in full support of rapists, domestic abusers, convicted felons with weapons all of whom attack random individuals and burn cities to the ground. And its all on video! All of it! Not just part of it edited for a lefty/LLR-lefty purpose.

How does Trump do it?

How does he make it so easy to have our leftists/LLR-leftists expose how horrible they are in such a willing fashion?

You have lefties/LLR-lefties screaming insults at paraplegics and military veterans standing for the flag today after last night's RNC convention.

LOL

It's amazing.

These idiot lefties/LLR-lefties are doing it to themselves.

Matt Sablan said...

Weird Inga doesn't post a link. I know why. Because those charges are the wrong guy. https://www.blackwestchester.com/kyle-rittenhouse/

Inga, that's just sloppy.

Oso Negro said...

Inga - Since when are juvenile records public information?

JPS said...

Jim, 3:12:

"What do you leftists think is going to happen when older, more-experienced and better-trained people decide they've had enough?

"Because that moment is approaching faster than you think ... if you're thinking at all."

Geez, I hope not.

Recently I found an old paragraph I saved, a comment by Larry Correia, paraphrasing a friend of his about political violence:

"for most people on the left political violence is a knob, and they can turn the heat up and down, with things like protests, and riots, all the way up to destruction of property, and sometimes murder… But for the vast majority of folks on the right, it’s an off and on switch. And the settings are Vote [and abide by the result, win or lose], or Shoot Fucking Everybody. And believe me, you really don’t want that switch to get flipped...."

I don't know if that's exactly right, but there's at least some truth in it. And I really don't want that switch flipped.

BarrySanders20 said...

Inga, your sleuthing skills are poor. The Kyle Rittenhouse at issue is 17 years old. The Kyle Rittenhouse you found on CCAP was born in April 1989. All of those matters you listed are in Rock County.

The 17 year old has two traffic tickets issued in early August - one for speeding and one for improper license. Both Kenosha County. None of the other items you listed are him.

Drago said...

Inga: "All those guns. How many times have I heard that an armed society is a polite society?"

Inga makes a good point here.

We neglected to mention that leftists/marxists/LLR-leftists are too volatile to have weapons, but that's just something we have to live with Constitutionally.

One other point for Inga the Russian Collusion Dead Ender, one of your Howard's Heroes was a felon and wasn't supposed to have a gun.

tsk tsk tsk

Not to worry. From what I understand, he won't ever make that mistake again, will he?

Jupiter said...

I still haven't seen any evidence that Rittenhouse shot Bald Napoleon. There were multiple people firing guns, I suspect one-armed medic among them, and I think at that range, Rittenhouse would have body-massed the asshole, not shot him in the head. His training is very good.

I am also wondering about the first guy who attacked him on the ground. It looks to me like Rittenhouse fires, white-pants flips over him and lands hard, then gets up and limps off. Could be from the fall, but I wonder if he took a round in the ass, and maybe suddenly remembered that it would not go well for him if the police were to run his fingerprints.

Drago said...

Poor Inga.

She doesn't know that as of a few hours ago the entire lefty/dem/LLR-lefty narrative on the riots has changed and the dems expect all their moron minions to adapt to the new talking points.

Remember, as of this afternoon, according to the dems, ALL the riots were created and facilitated by Donald J Trump in order to help his reelection campaign.

By tomorrow morning, Inga the Sheep will be bleating that it was the russians all along who were funding the BLM/antifa/marxist/democratical terrorist rioters.

Guaranteed.

Jupiter said...

"Offense Description: FAILURE TO OBEY TRAFFIC OFFICER/SIGNAL".

See, Igna? Like we said, the courts have gone soft. Hardened criminals, crossing against the light, then let off without even a slap on the wrist, to wander the streets and gun down innocent child molesters and wife beaters. Sad.

Rick said...

Mr. Rittenhouse turns toward the sound of gunfire as another pursuer lunges toward him from the same direction. Mr. Rittenhouse then fires four times, and appears to shoot the man in the head.

Note the propaganda effort:

First encounter:

The NYT tries to imply the second person is running in response to the same trigger as Rittenhouse [RH]. In reality the second runner is chasing RH. This is provable by noting he threw something at RH. Since this fact makes the initial presentation unsupportable the NYT omits it from their description understanding the left supporters will follow their lead in pretending this didn't happen.

Second encounter:

As Mr. Rittenhouse is running, he trips and falls to the ground. He fires four shots as three people rush toward him. One person appears to be hit in the chest and falls to the ground. Another, who is carrying a handgun, is hit in the arm and runs away.

Not "as they" rush toward RH, after they rush him. Also omitted is that one attacker gives RH a flying kick which connects but not solidly (this person escapes). The second attacker hits RH with a skateboard - again not solidly - and RH shoots him afterward (this is the second fatality).

The third person had initially rushed him but paused as the second neared RH. RH pauses in return. Only after this person re-starts his movement toward RH does RH fire again (this is the arm-wound survivor).

In every instance of shooting RH was attacked while attempting to retreat.

Notice every single omission and misrepresenation by the NYT is exculpatory to Rittenhouse. Their goal is to write the narrative which best protects BLM and Dems (i.e., themselves). They have no interest in the full set of circumstances or the truth.

This is going to end up like the Sandman / Covington Kids case where the left's own videos are going to prove the media narrative wrong.

Drago said...

Matt Sablan: "Weird Inga doesn't post a link. I know why. Because those charges are the wrong guy. https://www.blackwestchester.com/kyle-rittenhouse/

Inga, that's just sloppy."

The democraticals who fed Inga all those lies about collusion and the hoax dossier and Kavanaugh and Ukraine and even how Trump feeds goldfish in Japan already know she does not have a functioning brain and will simply parrot any and all nonsense fed to her.

And here she does it again!!

And this will always be a classic.

Not even LLR-lefty Chuck can make an error of this magnitude by one of his lefty pals disappear.

Ken B said...

Inga
Do you believe those misdemeanour convictions establish that he is a “white supremacist”?

Matt Sablan said...

So Inga. Why didn't you include the link this time? You usually do. Why when you're posting libel did you forget? This is bad faith. It isn't sloppiness. You didn't give us the primary source, a rarity. Why? We know you know how to make links.

Am I wrong and you are that sloppy when it is convenient for you but only then?

Ann Althouse said...

Ugh. Inga at 4:06 PM. Check your work. Just because it excites you doesn’t make it true. You put that up long after it was debunked.

Inga said...

Thank you for pointing out that this is the wrong Kyle Rittenhouse, Matthew. I certainly wouldn’t want to disparage your young hero who just killed two people and cost another one his arm by attributing charges to him that belong to another. That would be so unfair. This kid has enough trouble he’s going to be dealing with for the rest of his life.

Jim at said...

All those guns. How many times have I heard that an armed society is a polite society?

Well, two of your thugs no longer have the opportunity to be domestic terrorists, and one of them is on the Injured/Reserve list.

I consider that to be a great start towards returning to a polite society.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

Inga said...
All those guns. How many times have I heard that an armed society is a polite society?

8/27/20, 3:44 PM

The leftist assholes were stupid enough (almost as stupid as you) to attack an armed 17 year old.

Shed more tears for the pedophile scum who got shot. Inga's martyr!

Inga said...

“Ugh. Inga at 4:06 PM. Check your work. Just because it excites you doesn’t make it true. You put that up long after it was debunked.”

Althouse, you think it excites me? I just saw it and I put it up. It may have been sloppy, but NO it certainly doesn’t excite me. That’s a wierd thing for you to think.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

Inga is terribly eager to spread lies and slander about a 17 year old.

Rick said...

Matt Sablan said...
Inga, that's just sloppy.

Sloppy isn't the right description. She parrots the left's propaganda. Saying she's sloppy implies she thinks for herself.

Original Mike said...

"Inga, that's just sloppy."

Why do you assume it was an accident?

Anonymous said...

Inga's folks were 90-IQ religious maniacs, and not surprisingly so's she. She can give it out--she cannot take it.

Drago said...

Inga: "I certainly wouldn’t want to disparage your young hero who just killed two people and cost another one his arm by attributing charges to him that belong to another."

Inga the Russian Collusion Dead Ender insists she would never engage in disparaging the person she just disparaged and lied about.

That is so very Inga, isn't it?

Third Coast said...

Gospace @ 3:13 is right. If there's 5.56 entry wound, there sure as heck would be a messy exit wound. With all of the other shots fired at the same time, it makes me wonder if it was perhaps a pistol bullet that killed #1.

Original Mike said...

"I still haven't seen any evidence that Rittenhouse shot Bald Napoleon."

Bald Napoleon. LOL.

I watched the video of the confrontation down the street that proceeded the shooting. That guy was one big asshole. Didn't realize at the time he was one of the ones who ended up getting shot. Not surprising.

Mr. Majestyk said...

Note to delf: Never scream at an armed individual to "Shoot me, n_____". Further note to delf: if I ever ignore above advice, do not under any circumstances charge at such armed individual.

Matt Sablan said...

"Matthew. I certainly wouldn’t want to disparage your young hero who just killed two people and cost another one his arm by attributing charges to him that belong to another."

-- Three adults attacked a child; I'm going to lay the blame squarely at their feet. All three of them had multiple opportunities to STOP attacking the child who continually attempted to escape them. There were hundreds of decisions, many of them bad, that put the kid in the street with those three adults. Many bad decisions made by both sides.

But the proximate bad decision was made by each of the three adult men who have a history of violent, criminal behavior, which this time, they were met with immediate consequences.

It sucks that Kyle was forced to defend himself; his parents let him down by leaving him out there alone. The governor and police let him down by ceding control to rioters. The other adults present let him down by not stopping adults chasing a kid -- and look at that kid. He does not look 17.

The last decision before Kyle's "Shoot this man" decision? For the red t-shirt guy, who we now know is a pedophile who has raped or sexually molested at least one child in the past, seemed oddly fascinated on this one, and was willing to use racist slurs on people casually while spoiling for a fight, the last decision before Kyle shot him? "Ok, this kid has ran for a block and a half from me; I've now got him cornered and he's fired a single warning shot at me. I will charge him." Bad choice. I wish he'd made a different one; he didn't.

The skateboard guy? The man who we know now has repeatedly beaten one of his domestic partners and threatened her with further violence if she testified against him? His last choice was, "OK. We have knocked this kid we have chased for over a block to the ground; I can either use this chance to de-escalate the situation, or I can attempt a killing blow with my skateboard." Well, that's wrong. After, despite being older and stronger, failing to kill the child who was on the ground with his surprise attack, he decided to wrestle with the gun -- the gun the kid pointed at him *and did not pull the trigger on.* The kid offered him a chance to back off; he chose not to take it. He could have chosen differently, and did not.

The phony medic, who surprisingly has the least disturbing background of the three? His last decision before being shot, after seeing his friend lose, despite having the jump on the kid, was: "I know I have just surrendered to this kid who has twice shown restraint when shooting, but, I will instead, hope that, after multiple blows to the head, I can use my gun to shoot the wounded child on the ground." He now will probably lose his arm.

All three of these adults were given the chance to NOT commit a deadly assault. They chose not to.

Kyle isn't a hero; he's a kid who was put in a bad decision because the adults in his life failed him; the government failed him; and three predatory adults thought they could take a kid.

LilyBart said...

Likely he has sufficient cause for a self-defense argument.

Matt Sablan said...

Third Coast: I'm not an expert on bullets or firearms, but the damage done to the phony medic's arm lends some weight to a less powerful weapon is what hit the man in the head. It's also possible it hit at a weird angle, that his weapon maybe misfired and didn't fire as powerful a shot, or any number of things.

The autopsy will hopefully put it to rest; the kid seems to think he shot him (judging by the audio in some of the videos), which is why I tend to think that's most likely.

Drago said...

OM: "I watched the video of the confrontation down the street that proceeded the shooting. That guy was one big asshole. Didn't realize at the time he was one of the ones who ended up getting shot. Not surprising."

Was he the rapist dude or the domestic violence dude?

I mean, both are "spark of divinity" acts according to Inga, Supporter of the Party of Infanticide, so maybe it doesn't matter.

Matt Sablan said...

Phony medic admits to friend that he wanted to kill Kyle: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1299086141329563648/photo/2

Maybe ends up as hearsay, but... man, if I'm Lin Wood or whoever is defending the kid, I'm screenshotting that. That statement alone gives us the third attacker's frame of mind and makes it clear that Kyle had to shoot him.

Drago said...

Again, pay close attention.

Sometime over the next 12 hours Inga and LLR-lefty Chuck will get their new talking points and begin to describe the Dark Trump Conspiracy That Secretly Funded The Riots Even Though The Innocent And Naive Democraticals Only Wanted To Bring Healing To America.

The Great Transference Project to lay all the riots at Trump's feet is already fully underway on the left and in the media.

Drago said...

Of course, a critical component of the democraticals Great Transference Project will be to convince everyone that there were no racially divisive riots during the obambi administration.

This was also kicked off today by Biden claiming there were no riots during the 8 years of the obama/Stasi-spying/Biden/Weaponized Intel Administration.

And no "journalist" pushed back because...duh.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Inga - all that Biden Pelosi encouraged leftwing nazi antifa terror. Arson, burning down innocent lives, etc...

your cool with it, right? So polite.

LA_Bob said...

"Inga is terribly eager to spread lies and slander about a 17 year old."

Unless that 17-year-old is someone who would have looked like Obama's son had he had a son.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

The 3 shot (2 killed) in #Kenosha, Wisc. at the BLM riot have been identified.

Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, was the first one killed. Video allegedly shows him chasing teen shooter & throwing something at him. Rosenbaum was a registered sex offender for a sex crime involving a minor.

Anthony Huber, 26, was shot & killed in Kenosha, Wisc. at the BLM riot. He was filmed chasing down the armed teen and hitting him when he was on the ground with a skateboard. He has a criminal history that includes charges of battery & repeat domestic abuse. #KenoshaRiots



Inga is sad. Her leftwing terrorists got the short end of the karma stick. If you're gonna riot and burn and loot - there might be some risk, Inga.

We know you and your fellow travelers on the radical left are A-OK with the leftwing terror.

StephenFearby said...

Roughcoat said...
"Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, against violent criminals, and I will contribute to any defense fund set up for him."

Attorney Lin Wood to Defend Kyle Rittenhouse After GoFundMe Shuts Down His Fundraiser

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/08/27/lin-wood-to-defend-kyle-rittenhouse-after-gofundme-shuts-down-his-fundraiser/

3:30 pm on August 27, 2020
George Floyd Died of Health Complications from a Fentanyl Overdose — He Was Not Murdered By Minneapolis Police

https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/08/27/george-floyd-died-of-health-complications-from-a-fentanyl-overdose-he-was-not-murdered-by-minneapolis-police/

Who also said last night:

shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
·
15h
I will defend Kyle Rittenhouse.

32 years practicing law.
22+ years as a federal prosecutor.
7 years a criminal defense attorney.

It would be a pleasure battering the prosecution in this case.

Original Mike said...

"Was he the rapist dude or the domestic violence dude?"

Rapist dude.

Inga's time would be well spent reading this: [ Charging Kyle Rittenhouse with first-degree murder is facially absurd​] before making further pronouncements.

StephenFearby said...

Roughcoat said...
"Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, against violent criminals, and I will contribute to any defense fund set up for him."

Attorney Lin Wood to Defend Kyle Rittenhouse After GoFundMe Shuts Down His Fundraiser

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/08/27/lin-wood-to-defend-kyle-rittenhouse-after-gofundme-shuts-down-his-fundraiser/

3:30 pm on August 27, 2020
George Floyd Died of Health Complications from a Fentanyl Overdose — He Was Not Murdered By Minneapolis Police

https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/08/27/george-floyd-died-of-health-complications-from-a-fentanyl-overdose-he-was-not-murdered-by-minneapolis-police/

Who also said last night:

shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
·
15h
I will defend Kyle Rittenhouse.

32 years practicing law.
22+ years as a federal prosecutor.
7 years a criminal defense attorney.

It would be a pleasure battering the prosecution in this case.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Matt Sablan @ 5:07

#truth

-- Three adults attacked a child; I'm going to lay the blame squarely at their feet. All three of them had multiple opportunities to STOP attacking the child who continually attempted to escape them. There were hundreds of decisions, many of them bad, that put the kid in the street with those three adults. Many bad decisions made by both sides.

But the proximate bad decision was made by each of the three adult men who have a history of violent, criminal behavior, which this time, they were met with immediate consequences.

It sucks that Kyle was forced to defend himself; his parents let him down by leaving him out there alone. The governor and police let him down by ceding control to rioters. The other adults present let him down by not stopping adults chasing a kid -- and look at that kid. He does not look 17.


excellent post. Inga won't understand any of it. She adores all her leftwing antifa nazis. Working hard for Pelosi and Biden. She doesn't have a single negative thing to say about leftwing antifa violence and criminality. Arson is fine and dandy when done in the name of her precious Trump hate.

exhelodrvr1 said...

The asshole who survived said (according to a friend) his only regret was not drawing his pistol sooner and killing Rittenhouse

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Russia Russia Inga spreading leftwing lies again. Wow - so shocked.

rhhardin said...

The endgame is no result for the November election owing to counting impossibilities.

Matt Sablan said...

Here's a question I've had, but wasn't sure how to phrase.

Everyone keeps claiming that Kyle R. is a racist or had racist motives in his shooting. So... why aren't any of the people he shot... black?

traditionalguy said...

Evers has zero energy and mumbles into a face mask. How did he ever gat elected Governor? It must. Have been std. Dem ballot fraud.

Quaestor said...

Rioter were then triggered by it...

My gawd, the damage the left has done to our society is incalculable. Rioters are not robots. Rioters do not take the passive voice.

Laslo Spatula said...

Follow the media arc from Sandmann to Rittenhouse.

Same dishonest intent, but the stakes keep getting higher, because the media keeps adding fuel to the flames.

And the child abusers and domestic violence cretins that keep getting hurt? The bloody shirt loses its effect in the Land of Out-of-Fucks-to-Give.

To quote the ever quotable DLR: Somebody said "Fair warning", Lord, strike that poor boy down.

I am Laslo.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Video evidence appears to show first Kenosha shooting victim charging shooter, using N-word while taunting militia members

"As new details continue to emerge concerning a deadly confrontation between rioters and a militia group in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a new video appears to show that the first victim charged at the shooter, who appeared to be attempting to retreat behind a car, and threw an object at him.

It also appears that the first shooting victim of the bloody night may have been the same person who was caught on video before his shooting, taunting a member of an armed militia with the N-word and daring him to "Shoot me."

Earlier in the evening, shortly before the shooting, Townhall writer Julio Rosas caught video, which he posted to Twitter, of some protesters involved in an increasingly agitated discussion with members of a "militia" that was apparently present in an attempt to protect Kenosha businesses from damage caused by rioting and/or looting.

In the clip, one bald white, bearded individual who was seen wearing a maroon shirt, white sneakers, and carrying a white plastic bag begins to taunt one of the militia members (some of whom were black), saying, "shoot me, n*****!"

I knew that leftwing turd was a racist skinhead.

_____________________________________________________
Here is someone named Ayanna Pressley - providing one example of the BS coming from the left:

@AyannaPressley
"A 17 year old white supremacist domestic terrorist drove across state lines, armed with an AR 15.

He shot and killed 2 people who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives."

riiiioght. 2 white skinhead antifa freaks prowling for arson and violence... who attempted to attack the 17 year old.

Darrell said...

If you try to kill me you're going to meet Osiris shortly. It doesn't require a second thought.

Drago said...

Just one kid with one weapon gets attacked by a mob of armed criminal recidivist Howard's Heroes and he alone, after giving each of the antifa cowards a chance to back off, takes out 3 of these violent marxist fools.

This was precisely the scenario that Howard assured me could never happen because only our Normandy Invader-like antifa heroes had the guts to do anything.

Yet here we are.

The best part?

The police did not come to the violent marxist anti-police antifa babies defense.

effinayright said...

Once again , Inga shows us that she's a vicious version of the ditzy Emily Litella.

Never mind...

Michael K said...

Sometime over the next 12 hours Inga and LLR-lefty Chuck will get their new talking points and begin to describe the Dark Trump Conspiracy That Secretly Funded The Riots

I think Inga got hers and is now on the "guns" theme. I'll tell you one polite society. That residential neighborhood in Kenosha when the BLM assholes started to move in and a resident fired a couple of warning shots. The shitbirds took off in a hurry.

Michael K said...

Inga's hero saying he wished he had killed that kid. Well I can understand being mad the kid got the drop on you.

Criminal record, of course, like all Inga's heroes.

Rick said...

Reddit Link to many Kenosha Videos


Here's video of the first person killed throwing something at Rittenhouse (43 seconds in) and continuing to chase him. This includes some slo-mo and zoom-in analysis which helps clarify the sequences.

Mary Beth said...

Oddly enough I have turtles on my 2020 bingo card. Don't ask, I don't have a clue.

They're attacking.

gpm said...

>>House Rep. Ayanna Pressley describes him as someone "who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives."

Ugh. She's my rep (hope I'm using the right pronouns). Will be going to vote against the latest, entitled, useless Kennedy running for Senate next Tuesday (unfortunately, that means voting in favor of Markey, but what can you do?), but she's running unopposed.

--gpm

Drago said...

We also have this happening today:

Texas cabbie accused in 'honor killing' of teenage daughters didn't want to raise 'whores,' wife recalled

"Yaser Abdel Said was arrested this week after spending more than 12 years on FBI's most-wanted list."

Uh oh. An islamist has killed his 2 daughters for becoming too westernized.

You know what that means: lots and lots of Inga comments criticizing American Christians.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

The kid shouldn't have traveled from Illinois to be there. Never seek out trouble. But he's a kid and kids do dumb stuff. He wanted to be a hero, defending the lives and property of the innocent.

But he's not the villain Inga clearly hates so much (because he shot at her little darlings - a pedophile and a fake medic who intended to murder the 17 year old.) Inga hates him because he dared to defend himself when attacked.

If Rittenhouse had been murdered by that "medic" - another medical person who shares Inga's morals - Inga would simply ignore the murder and consider that he got what he deserved. But Inga's leftist darlings were hurt and that makes Inga soooooo very angry!

Quaestor said...

Inga writes: I just saw it and I put it up.

What a ridiculous dodge quite the equal of a war criminal's only following orders defense. There's a lengthy and illuminating volitional chain between the verbs Inga chooses to share unless she's nothing but a mindless "monkey see, monkey do" cipher.

You owe us a detailed explanation, Inga. Or do you want the whole Althouse commentariat to conclude you're as brain-rotten as my most puerile jokes about you have strongly implied?

Browndog said...

Charging someone you know is armed, already shot someone, is not indicative of someone in control of their actions. It defies basic survival instinct.

It is indicative, however, of someone tweeking on Meth. All these rage fueled amp fests are drug induced, yet everyone wants to pretend these actions are just honest, heart felt emotions by sober thinkers seeking "justice".

Time to be honest.

alanc709 said...

Matt Sablan said...
Phony medic admits to friend that he wanted to kill Kyle: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1299086141329563648/photo/2

Maybe ends up as hearsay, but... man, if I'm Lin Wood or whoever is defending the kid, I'm screenshotting that. That statement alone gives us the third attacker's frame of mind and makes it clear that Kyle had to shoot him.

8/27/20, 5:11 PM

Still admissable under hear-say exceptions for statements against penal interest.

eddie willers said...

In all these riots, I keep seeing grown men with skateboards.

What's up with that?

Gahrie said...

There's a reason why the Left tries to say that object truth is a White thing.

gilbar said...

Our Poor Igna said...
I just saw it and I put it up.


hey all! cut our poor igna some slack.
She's admitted to us, that as a senile old lady, suffering from dementia;
she's Not Capable of conscious thought. She just sees stuff, and puts it up.
It's really kinda sad, in a way. Poor Igna

I'm Not Sure said...

Inga said...

"Althouse, you think it excites me?"

Are you kidding? If you were a guy, you'd still have a boner.

Gahrie said...

I am appalled and horrified by the property damage, but I'm really worried about a massacre.

In the 18th and 19th centuries these riots would have been met with grapeshot and massed musketry long ago.

n.n said...

At least three GoFundMe's have been set up for that purpose, and GoFundMe has closed down all of them. Meanwhile, they fund BLM and have accounts set up for the vermin Rittenhouse had to shoot.

Go "Fund" Me. The satire writes itself.

Matt Sablan said...

"In all these riots, I keep seeing grown men with skateboards.

What's up with that?"

-- Watch the video and you'll see. The skateboard assailant uses it to catch up to the kid. Then, after another of his party sucker punched the kid, and a separate one kicked the kid in the face, he picks up his skateboard and attempts to kill the kid with it.

PubliusFlavius said...

"Just disgusting that the NYTimes leaves out the part where one of the dead guys hit/tried to hit Rittenhouse in the head with skateboard. Seriously- the writer has the fucking video right there in front of him, or at least claims to have watched it like Inga did yesterday."-YW

Bruh

The lie of OMission is the stock and trade of deceitful 'reporters' the world over,

you didn't think the nyt's was a 33rd Degree Deciever?

Bruh

;)

Nichevo said...

All three of Kyle Rittenhouse's attackers were evidently in that initial scuffle at the gas station. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they were part of the team of Hard Men that antifa uses as shock troops. If that guy who first took the flying kick at Rittenhouse on the ground after he stumbled could be identified, I wonder if he would also profile as a real bad guy.

The three perpetrators also may have been surveying the crowd of defenders at the gas station, in order to cull the herd and select individuals who might be profitably targeted. So they may have thought they could get over on the seventeen-year-old as the weakest link. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

So a rapist, a strangler, and a medic without much sense of the Hippocratic Oath, set out after one young boy, and he takes out all three of them. I'd like to buy him a non-alcoholic beverage. If he had a go fund me, if those criminals would allow it, I would be there.

DanTheMan said...

>>The kid shouldn't have traveled from Illinois to be there. Never seek out trouble. But he's a kid and kids do dumb stuff.

Careful. I got barbecued in another thread for saying that. Some of Ann's regulars think he's a hero.
My position is he is a warning that our mayors and PD's should heed before things get much worse.

The Crack Emcee said...

The back-drop to all of this is a cabal of racist cops

America needs a reparations study, to tell our citizens what they've done. Since they won't say.

The Crack Emcee said...

Gahrie said...

"In the 18th and 19th centuries these riots would have been met with grapeshot and massed musketry long ago."

And that's exactly what century you idiots belong in.

DanTheMan said...

>>In all these riots, I keep seeing grown men with skateboards.

They aren't grown men. They are adult babies having a temper tantrum.

Browndog said...

Yea, about Kyle having a court appointed attorney:

Lin Wood
@LLinWood

The #FightBack Foundation legal team is heading out to meet with Kyle & his family. Several great local & national lawyers have joined team led by John Pierce @CaliKidJMP
. Michelle Malkin @michellemalkin
is also hard at work. True Patriots.

Thanks you for outpouring of support.


Too much at stake for all of us if this prosecution is allowed to stand.

Browndog said...

A lot of people are going to be surprised at all the shooting that took place that night-

by Antifa.

Luckily they never learned how to aim.

Michael K said...

You owe us a detailed explanation, Inga. Or do you want the whole Althouse commentariat to conclude you're as brain-rotten as my most puerile jokes about you have strongly implied?

Inga owes no one an explanation. She is an idiot and what she posts is the latest thought that has crossed what passes for her mind. No judgement. No introspection. Just reflexes. Poke a squid and get ink. Inga sees something that looks real to her and you get ink again. Just a squid.

PubliusFlavius said...

For your consideration:

"When the time finally came, he put his foot on the show’s neck, and for almost four minutes wouldn’t let up the pressure."

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/grammys-2020-best-worst-wtf-moments-943689/best-of-the-night-tyler-the-creator-burns-the-grammys-down-943693/


..O and what about the emo wench Du Jour?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&sxsrf=ALeKk03DxhNaGtiUdhWl7CAB-Rq0diT9CA%3A1598575237086&ei=hVJIX9DZBNWz0PEPnO-hmAI&q=billie+eilish+mask+grammys&oq=billie+eilish+mask+gra&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAxgAMgIIADoECAAQRzoECCMQJzoECC4QJzoLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6CAguEMcBEKMCOgQIABBDOggILhCxAxCDAToFCAAQkQI6CAgAELEDEIMBOgIILjoLCC4QsQMQkQIQkwI6BwguELEDEEM6BQguELEDOgUIABCxAzoECC4QQzoKCC4QsQMQQxCTAjoHCAAQsQMQQzoHCC4QQxCTAjoECAAQCjoECC4QCjoGCAAQFhAeUK5fWNeDAWD4kwFoAHABeACAAbwBiAGTEZIBBDUuMTOYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&sclient=psy-ab

Masks and Neck death's served with a Kobe killing as an appetizer....someone just pointed this out to me.

wildswan said...

Just want to add in, that this kid was with a group of adults but was separated from them by the police because he stepped away from his group and then was not allowed by the police to return. So the police threw this kid out among the Mostly Peacefuls where the Completely Peaceful police dared not go themselves without an armored car. The rest was almost inevitable - that the Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Mob, chased the kid, assaulted him, and (possibly) got shot by him, while the Peaceful police Completely Did Nothing. (It's possible that the head wound injury is not from a rifle; and it's possible that the skateboarder wrestled for the rifle and pulled the rifle to himself and pulled the trigger.) I don't think this kid's life is over - I see him as if he were my brother. I wonder why anybody thinks it was OK to separate him from his friends or to chase and assault him.

Browndog said...

eddie willers said...

In all these riots, I keep seeing grown men with skateboards.

What's up with that?


Tactical weapons.

Antifa is constantly training and adapting.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Last night of the RNC. Trump can seal the deal by giving Rittenhouse a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Susan said...

Every year on Veteran's Day our Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter gives a special assembly to our high school students. It is the ONLY reason we have school that day. At the end of the assembly, where survivors of our various wars talk about their experiences fighting overseas, all the students except the seniors are dismissed. Then. One by one. The men who lied about their age, some as young as 14 at the time, tell about how THEY spent their service years. There is never a single peep from any of the kids as they listen to what the "children" of years gone by have done to secure liberty for our country. It is a sobering moment for the 18 year olds who have had a cushy life.

So yeah. I have heard plenty of stories, all true, about how even younger boys are able to stand up for their community. So it doesn't surprise me at all that there are still young men who are willing and able.

Except for the fact that THERE ARE young men willing and able in this day and age.

So, of course, he has been arrested and his attackers are going free. Because that is how the world works in the cloud kookoo land of lefty run cities.

Original Mike said...

eddie willers said...
"In all these riots, I keep seeing grown men with skateboards.
What's up with that?"


People don't grow up anymore.

Big Mike said...

More information. Kyle Rittenhouse will have Lin Wood acting pro bono to support his legal defense team. Mr. Wood is the attorney who represented Nick Sandmann in his suits against CNN, The Washington Post, and other media riff-raff.

Michael K said...

This case is going to get huge and the left has really stepped on its collective dick.

The kid should not have been there but the records of the dirtbags he shot will be big stories for months.

Michael K said...

Crack, aren't you on your way to Africa yet? All this racism.

Nichevo said...

DanTheMan said...
>>The kid shouldn't have traveled from Illinois to be there. Never seek out trouble. But he's a kid and kids do dumb stuff.

Careful. I got barbecued in another thread for saying that. Some of Ann's regulars think he's a hero.
My position is he is a warning that our mayors and PD's should heed before things get much worse.


Not. Mutually. Exclusive.

Original Mike said...

"The best part?
The police did not come to the violent marxist anti-police antifa babies defense."


Not a lot to be pleased about in this event, but at its core it's about rioting lefties trying to emasculate the police. Well, they got what they wanted.

Original Mike said...

"That residential neighborhood in Kenosha when the BLM assholes started to move in and a resident fired a couple of warning shots. The shitbirds took off in a hurry."

That was funny. They seemed shocked that anybody would stand up to them.

Freeman Hunt said...

Talked to a friend who is on the left today. He's been talking to other friends on the left, regular people not activist types. "I don't think they get it. People like us are watching this unchecked violence, and we won't say anything about politics, but we'll go vote Trump in November." Wonder if that's true of many people.

clint said...

This bit is still confusing me: "He left that dealership, and police prevented him from returning."

This seems like the spark that set everything off. Once Rittenhouse was alone, he must have looked like easy prey to the violent felons who had been trying to pick a fight with the whole group of armed folks, only half an hour earlier.

Have we heard anything about what the police were thinking?

Original Mike said...

@AyannaPressley
"A 17 year old white supremacist domestic terrorist drove across state lines, armed with an AR 15.
He shot and killed 2 people who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives."


AND burn down the local businesses.

DanTheMan said...

>>People like us are watching this unchecked violence, and we won't say anything about politics, but we'll go vote Trump in November." Wonder if that's true of many people.

Freeman, I suspect some will react that way, but most lefties will vote for Biden, assuming that if meany Trump is gone and 'that nice old man' is president, all the rioting will stop.

Matt Sablan said...

I'm still confused: If this guy was a white supremacist... why didn't he shoot any black people?

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

David Dorn's Widow Eviscerates the Black Lives Matter Narrative

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

REal Media updates at Andy Ngo

Andy Ngô
@MrAndyNgo
·
5h
"GRAPHIC: A friend of the man who rushed at the #Kenosha teen with a pistol and was shot in the arm has posted an update about his status. Doctors were able to save Gaige Grosskreutz's right arm. The friend says Gaige regrets not being able to kill the teen."

+++Rouges gallery of white leftwing antifa fascists getting arrested and re-released over and over.

Yancey Ward said...

And it turned out to be the wrong Rittenhouse? I am rolling on the floor laughing right now!

walter said...

clint said...This bit is still confusing me: "He left that dealership, and police prevented him from returning."
--
Yes..that.

Narr said...

I laughed when I saw Skateboard Shithuber bleeding out, and the rabble mewling, "call the cops! call the cops!"

Lacking an open thread, I'll say goodnight with the two things I'll be sure to mention to my D-leaning family and friends when asked.

1. As much as one might admire Kamalalala's record of putting tens of thousands (or more?) of young Black men behind bars as an ambitious prosecutor in the racist War on Some Drugs, there's something I just don't like about her.

B. As much as the Dims promise to continue funding the vital work of the Society for the Prevention of Infants of Color, there's something I just don't like about them.

Narr
Windy night ahead!





walter said...

I especially enjoy the "hunter" theme being bandied about. Only a really crappy hunter shoots only after multiple threats and retreats.

Quaestor said...

Crack, aren't you on your way to Africa yet?

Ain't no rent subsidies in Africa.

Megaera said...

Gahrie: that was, after all, how young Lieutenant Bonaparte literally made his bones -- so to speak. Seems increasingly clear to me that if they keep this up the Left is going to get exactly what they're begging for, a Man on Horseback, and if that happens things won't end well for them.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Arson is A-OK by top cop kamala and her poppy. As long as the antifa are nice left-leaning fascists. Does someone need a diaper change? Good boy, poppy. yes yes - the check from the Ukrainian energy company is in the mail. Where's my purse? Hunter can have this fist full of ones to hold him over.

Gospace said...

It appears the head shot was a graze. Charging documents are out. I found a link to them earlier on google drive- but can't find it again...

Anyhow- a large part of the charging document consisted of statements Rittenhouse made to the police on scene. Now if an adult comes up to a policeman and volunteers information that could be incriminating and the policeman just listens without asking questions, it's all admissible in court.

Rittenhouse is a minor. Seems to me any statement he made, even volunteering beforehand, is going to end inadmissible because as a minor- he cannot knowingly nor unknowingly waive his right to silence. Matter of fact, once any police found he was under 18- they should have told him to shut up. In order for anything he said to be admissible- it would have to have been made with a parent, guardian, or legal representative present. Is that a correct interpretation?

Gospace said...

And right after I said I couldn't find the charging document again- someone posted it on Facebook.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m9sDjYr1Nj_fpFr9bTycWPG8tS2aPDeL/view

eddie willers said...

The kid should not have been there

Tucker got in trouble for pointing out the obvious. He said because no mayors would stand up to the violence, you now have 17 year old boys in the streets with rifles.

Boy, the liberals got mad about that.

Quaestor said...

Gahrie: that was, after all, how young Lieutenant Bonaparte literally made his bones

One supposes Megaera is referring to the famous "whiff of grapeshot" incident of 13 Vendémiaire IV. By then Napoleon had been a general for nearly twenty-two months, having achieved the rank of Brigadier General on 2 Nivôse II. When he defended the Directory against a royalist mob (i.e. 18th century Bernie Bros) he was Major General Bonaparte.

At the Seige of Toulon, held by most historians to be Napoleon's first action as a commander, he was a captain of artillery.

Moondawggie said...


As a former Navy Medical Officer, I can assure you that medics and corpsmen are not allowed to carry weapons, in accordance with the Geneva Convention. Only Medical Officers (doctors) are allowed to do so in order to protect their patients.

So quit referring to the pursuing handgun-equipped rioter as a "Medic;" he was an armed rioter trying to attack an opponent who (while running away from conflict) was armed with a rifle. The dude shot in the arm was hardly a "Medic."

As for the dead dude who pursued the kid and then tried to him on the head with his skateboard, I'm reminded of the words of Sean Connery in "The Untouchables:" (I'm paraphrasing here) "Ain't it just like a woke moron to bring a skateboard to a gunfight?"

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Think about it, all you enlightened, nuanced, woke progressives.

Matt Sablan said...

"... the defendant and Rosenbaum continue to move across the parking lot and approach the front of a black car parked in the lot."

-- The adult man chases the child. They don't "move across" the parking lot.

"A loud bang is heard on the video, then a male shouts, “Fuck you!”, then Rosenbaum appears to continue to approach the defendant and gets in near proximity to the defendant when 4 more loud bangs are heard."

-- That's a pretty clear self-defense claim. If the shot came from the kid, then he either missed or unwisely shot off a warning shot. Either way, he only fired *once.* In hopes the attack would end. The adult then decided the attack would not end. The kid, realizing he was in immediate jeopardy, ended the threat as quickly as he could. (More to come)

Matt Sablan said...

"the defendant had moved from the middle of Sheridan Road to the sidewalk and that is when McGinnis saw a male (Rosenbaum) initially try to engage the defendant."

-- Unless the police say McGinnis is lying or wrong, this reinforces self-defense. The kid was trying desperately to avoid this adult, who we know now also was a child predator.

"McGinnis stated that the defendant pulled it away and then raised it. McGinnis
stated that right as they came together, the defendant fired."

-- Didn't realize the kid held fire THAT long. I thought he fired as soon as the attacker charged him for the last time. He actually... let the guy "come together" and almost touch his gun. That's going to be pretty hard to argue not self defense.

"Then a male in a light-colored top runs towards the defendant and appears to swing at the defendant with his right arm. This swing makes contact with the defendant, knocking his hat off."

-- The "appears to swing" is kind of cute since the next sentence is: "Yeah. Someone sucker punched the kid." Notice how they separate the "kid gets sucker punched" part of the description from "he tripped" part? It kind of removes the causal relationship between the two. More accuately, almost immediately after being sucker punched, he falls to the ground *because he had just been punched in the back of the head,* a surprise attack that very likely counts as lethal force.

"As the defendant is on the ground, an unidentified male wearing a dark-colored top and light-colored pants jumps at and over the defendant... It appears that that person was not hit as he then runs away from the defendant."

-- Another very odd way to describe someone trying to kick a man on the ground. Note the important thing here, that will be key to the kid's self defense claim. When the man turns to run away... the kid *stops firing at him.*

"When Huber reaches the defendant it appears that he is reaching for the defendant’s gun with his left hand as the skateboard makes contact with the defendant’s left shoulder."

-- That's another very round about way of saying, "Huber attempted to hit the defendant in the head and missed." They then describe how the defendant, on the ground, already hit at least once in the head, possibly more, is then wrestling with an adult man for his gun. The gun discharges, maybe the kid shot deliberately. Either way, if you wrestle with someone on the ground after trying to crack their skull open from behind... it is very hard to argue *the guy on the ground who just got sucker punched and attacked, and let the last person who attacked him and backed off go is using more force than needed when he hits you with a single shot, and doesn't fire any additional shots when you stop attacking.*

"After shooting Huber, the defendant moves to a seated position and points his gun at a third male, later identified as Gaige Grosskreutz, who had begun to approach the defendant."

-- This makes this sound like this is sequential, like a movie. No. Gaige is approaching the kid the entire time, with a gun in his hand, and looking to join the dogpile, which if the kid hadn't had a gun, would already have had two adult men beating on him, one with a skateboard. It isn't that Huber gets shot, then Gaige starts moving. Gaige is moving in to attack the entire time; he only hesitates with his hands up and gun out after Huber is shot. He then decides, screw it, and tries to kill the kid again.

This charging instrument is weak tea.

Megaera said...

Questor: I freely admit to being less of a Bonaparte authority than you might prefer (though I will note that the Committee of Public Safety had dropped him in September from the list of generals for his refusal to serve in the Vendee, so it isn't all that obvious to me what his precise rank was when Barras sought him out in October) but my actual point about the natural consequences of unpopular civil unrest seems to me still to stand.

Narayanan said...

Gospace said...
It appears the head shot was a graze. Charging documents are out. I found a link to them earlier on google drive- but can't find it again...

Anyhow- a large part of the charging document consisted of statements Rittenhouse made to the police on scene. Now if an adult comes up to a policeman and volunteers information that could be incriminating and the policeman just listens without asking questions, it's all admissible in court.

Rittenhouse is a minor. Seems to me any statement he made, even volunteering beforehand, is going to end inadmissible because as a minor- he cannot knowingly nor unknowingly waive his right to silence. Matter of fact, once any police found he was under 18- they should have told him to shut up. In order for anything he said to be admissible- it would have to have been made with a parent, guardian, or legal representative present. Is that a correct interpretation?
-------------==============
what if they charge him as adult?!

Chris N said...

A useful analogy?

The three shooting victims are to Inga what Crack is to Althouse.

Not fully equals, but rather people who fall on a gradient fulfilling high abstractions, moral judgments and deep needs.

Too much armchair psychologizing?

RichAndSceptical said...

Democrats are playing a very dangerous psyops game with the American people. They are responsible for every single death, every burned or looted business, every fire burning in these cities, every injured cop, and on and on.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Nice catch Gospace! A .223, (at close range), would have obliterated that skull. Likely not even enough to ID the guy. A Viet Nam vet I worked with described a head shot effect as "cleared out his housing". Another shorter description was "pieces".

BUMBLE BEE said...

5.56 velocity @ 50 yds. = 2990 feet per second, energy = 1100 foot pounds. Grazed his head? Hmmm!

Rusty said...

Inga said...

"Althouse, you think it excites me?" I think you're still mopping the floor with your bush.
Blogger Michael K said...
"Crack, aren't you on your way to Africa yet? All this racism."
Are you kidding? The civilized parts of Africa want nothing to do with American blacks. They consider them spoiled and lazy.


Nichevo said...


DanTheMan said...
>>People like us are watching this unchecked violence, and we won't say anything about politics, but we'll go vote Trump in November." Wonder if that's true of many people.

Freeman, I suspect some will react that way, but most lefties will vote for Biden, assuming that if meany Trump is gone and 'that nice old man' is president, all the rioting will stop.


No, the lefties of my acquaintance still blame the riots on the right, or claim that the right is who they fear - white supremacy and all.

n.n said...

A civil rights leader who stands against the Some, Select Black Live Matter mob (neo-KKK) who invades people's neighborhoods, who obstruct people's freedom of movement, who intimidate and assault grannies, men, women, and children, and extort redistributive change from businesses in a diversity racket.

n.n said...

the right is who they fear - white supremacy and all.

Diversitists? Pro-Choice? Redistributive change? The Nazis were leftists.

n.n said...

Crack, aren't you on your way to Africa yet?

Ain't no rent subsidies in Africa.


They still practice slavery, cannibalize [black] albinos, sacrifice children openly in reproductive rites, lynch each other in retributive change... Some areas are irredeemably, rabidly diversitist (e.g. racist, sexist).

bbkingfish said...

More white-on-white crime. Senseless, but nobody even talks about it, let alone demonstrates or organizes against it.

I think this is an unfortunate, but somewhat predictable, byproduct of six months of record unemployment. Over a million jobless claims a week 23 out of the past 24 weeks.

When they lack the means to support themselves, people find trouble. CPA membership peaked in the U.S. during the Great Depression. And criminal activity soared. Chicago had over 1,300 criminal gangs, and the police did nothing about it, for the most part. Then, as in this case, they mostly stood by and watched.

Thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims in Kenosha. No one deserves to feel such pain.

Todd said...

eddie willers said... [hush]​[hide comment]
In all these riots, I keep seeing grown men with skateboards.

What's up with that?

8/27/20, 6:33 PM


Well being a Baristas with a worthless SJW degree, student loans, and living in mom's basement does not generally produce the wealth a collage graduate might have expected, to afford a car and its related expenses. So greasing up the wheels of the skateboard you have owned since you were 14 is at least transportation.

pokerone said...

gpm wrote: "House Rep. Ayanna Pressley describes him as someone "who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives."

Ugh. She's my rep (hope I'm using the right pronouns). Will be going to vote against the latest, entitled, useless Kennedy running for Senate next Tuesday (unfortunately, that means voting in favor of Markey, but what can you do?), but she's running unopposed."

There is a black conservative running a write-in campaign against Pressley, Rayla Campbell. She's bright and articulate. Please consider voting for her on primary day. For more info visit: http://raylaforcongress.com/

gilbar said...

Rittenhouse is a minor. Seems to me any statement he made, even volunteering beforehand, is going to end inadmissible because as a minor- he cannot knowingly nor unknowingly waive his right to silence.

they're planning on charging him as an adult

Douglas B. Levene said...

The legal issue is whether Rittenhouse was in fear of his life, that is, whether he has a self-defense claim, for either shooting. I suppose that will eventually be a jury issue, unless he pleads out.

A possibly related issue is whether Rittenhouse was violating the law by openly carrying. The NYT claims that it is a Class A misdemeanor under Wisconsin law for a 17-year-old to openly carry. What say you, Prof. Althouse? Even if that was a misdemeanor, I don't think that would affect the self-defense claim, but I'm not a Wisconsin lawyer and will defer to those who are.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Lets see reparations - payment to the families of 360,000 Union soldiers (republicans) dead from direct conflict involvement + Riot damage costs... Guess you gotta pony up there Mr.EMCEE!

Gravel said...

Blogger Inga said...
All those guns. How many times have I heard that an armed society is a polite society?

How much violence was there in Kenosha the day AFTER the shooting?

What's that? None? (at least according to wikipedia: "Protests continued peacefully with chants and sidewalk art in a park near the courthouse, followed by a march. Riot police and National Guard troops did not have a visible presence. [41]")

Indeed, an armed society is a polite society. But you have to convince the impolite once in a while.

Gravel said...

Purely anecdotal, but the number of people I have met recently who say things like "I have never wanted a gun before, but I do now" is very surprising.

Not anecdotal - over 2M people bought their very first guns in the first half of 2020.

Richard said...

In hindsight, the video of the Great Baldini inviting deadly force seems strong evidence of Karma. May he reincarnate as a fetus destined to meet "Dr." Gosnell.

Marc in Eugene said...

I don't see why it can't be said, on the one hand, that the Rittenhouse fellow ought to have stayed at home etc etc and, on the other, that 'he is a hero'. I don't know that I'd use that term myself (because I don't know his motives, nor the exact sequence of that night's events etc) but they aren't necessarily mutually exclusive propositions. Circumstances make the man, sometimes.

Rosalind said...

Emcee said: And that's exactly what century you idiots belong in.

Again, isn't your "community" getting tired of always being the stalking horse of the Democratics?