HERE IS THE EXTREMELY SHORT BACKSTORY ON KYLE RITTENHOUSE TAKEN FROM CNN & Fox News:
Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, is accused of a single shooting incident during a night of unrest in Kenosha earlier this week that left two people dead and a third person seriously injured, authorities have said.
The teenager is a former member of a youth police cadet program with an affinity for guns, according to police and online profiles. In Grayslake, Illinois — about 10 miles from Antioch and 30 miles from Kenosha — Police Chief Phillip L. Perlini said the suspect in the shooting was a former Public Safety Cadet. That program is described online as offering youth the opportunity to explore careers in law enforcement. Due to the person’s age and state law, the chief said the department couldn’t comment further.
In a lengthy statement, the lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse, John Pierce, said prosecutors rushed to judgment in charging his client to appease “divisive” and “destructive” forces without analyzing Tuesday’s events.
“This was not a serious investigation,” Pierce said. “Rather, after learning Kyle may have had conservative political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens.”
HERE IS THE STATEMENT OF THE LEGAL TEAM:
The above statement provides a summary of the events from the view of the defense. Review the highlighted areas of the criminal complaint. The facts set forth scream self defense. Was Kyle Rittenhouse in imminent threat of death or great bodily harm? Based on the facts set forth, we know multiple attempts were made to disarm Rittenhouse. When someone is trying to grab your gun and disarm you, it is reasonable to conclude that if they get the gun away, they will do you harm with the gun. The use of deadly force in this instance is reasonable.
BOTTOM LINE: THIS WAS A POLITICAL PROSECUTION TO APPEASE THE MOB. IT IS SHAMEFUL THAT ONCE AGAIN WE SEE THAT SOMEONE IS BEING PROSECUTED BECAUSE OF POLITICS. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JUSTICE BEING BLIND? THE BLM PROTESTORS CLAIM INJUSTICE UNDER THE LAW BY THE POLICE, BUT YET APPLAUD THIS POLITICAL PROSECUTION? ISN’T IT INTERESTING THAT THEY ARE APPLAUDING ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SPOKE OUT AGAINST?
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail