The people he shot were the people who attacked him. And ONLY the people who attacked him. No innocent bystanders. Nobody who was “just rioting” or “just committing arson.” He ONLY shot the people who attacked him, all of whom could have killed him had he been unarmed.
He didn’t go to Kenosha to shoot people. He brought a med kit and his EMT training (he was in a firefighter/EMT cadet program), he helped at least two injured people (that I’ve heard about), and he ran around with a fire extinguisher putting out fires, including the dumpster that people were trying to push into a freaking gas station.
He ONLY fired his weapon when he was on the ground being lunged at by an agitated, violent man who (though Kyle didn’t know this at the time) had just gotten out of a psychiatric hospital and had earlier been convicted for severe crimes against 5 children aged 9-11. This man had also directly threatened to kill Kyle multiple times and throughout the night had tried to provoke him (and failed). Again, Kyle didn’t shoot him because of threats or because of his record. Kyle shot him when Kyle was on the ground with this guy lunging at him and grabbing his (Kyle’s) gun.
The next myth is that Huber and Grosskreutz were just trying to stop an active shooter. The problem is that as far as we know, neither of them knew that Kyle had shot Rosenbaum.
Grosskreutz testified, and his video recordings support this, that he ran up to Kyle and asked him what was going on. In the video, Kyle says “I’m going to get the police.”
Grosskreutz testified that he misheard Kyle and thought he said “I’m working with the police.” Grosskreutz testified he had no other knowledge of who Kyle was or what had happened at that time.
On only the (false) information that Kyle was “working with the police” (perhaps an informant), Grosskreutz pulled his gun and went after Kyle.
Kyle fell because he was lightheaded from having just had to shoot someone. He gets jump-kicked in the head by an unidentified man, fires two shots, and the man who kicked him runs off, never to be seen again and never coming forward as a witness.
Then Huber hits Kyle with his skateboard (and if allowed to continue Huber easily could have killed Kyle with that skateboard, those things can do damage) and Kyle shoots Huber, who stumbles away and goes down.
Grosskreutz approaches Kyle with his hands up, and Kyle LOWERS HIS WEAPON. Then Grosskreutz moves closer, and simultaneously reaches to grab Kyle’s gun and points his own pistol at Kyle’s head.
Again, only at that moment, with Grosskreutz moving to take Kyle’s gun and with a pistol pointed at Kyle’s head, only then does Kyle shoot. He strikes Grosskreutz in the bicep, which stopped the threat. Remember, the goal in self-defense is not to kill, it’s to STOP the threat. Sometimes that results in the threat dying. Other times it results in a “vaporized” (Grosskreutz’s word) bicep.
After all that, Kyle reaches the police who still had no idea what was going on, didn’t understand that Kyle was surrendering, and actually pepper sprayed him for approaching them. Kyle does not shoot anyone else.
If Kyle Rittenhouse was intending to hunt rioters, he could have killed so many more people. If he was intending to use deadly force to protect property, he certainly would have killed several more people.
Instead, he showed up to clean up graffiti and render first aid to the very rioters that the media is accusing him of hunting. He also put out fires, one of which could have killed many people if the rioters had been allowed to push the flaming dumpster into a gas station.
Please actually watch the trial. Or read articles/watch videos from people who actually know what they’re talking about, like Attorney Andrew Branca and Rekieta Law.
CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other media outlets have OUTRIGHT LIED about basic facts from the trial. Not just “framing.” They literally have told you things that are factually untrue.
So many people this week are waking up and realizing that Kyle wasn’t a white supremacist, didn’t shoot any black people, and didn’t “go hunting” as the media claimed.
Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks (super leftist) admitted she was wrong and said that in fact it does look like Kyle was the one being attacked.
Stop repeating things you heard on MSNBC and do a basic level of research!