Kyle Rittenhouse, charged in Kenosha
protest homicides, considered himself
militia
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
by
Gina Barton
&
Bruce Vielmetti
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
8/26/2020 3:12:25 PM
Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with shooting three people — two of them fatally — during a Kenosha protest Tuesday evening, thought of himself as a militia member trying to protect life and property, according to videos, interviews and social media posts.
Video shot in the hours before the shooting shows Rittenhouse hanging out with older armed men, who tell the reporter they're protecting a car lot. Rittenhouse then introduces himself as Kyle.
He also did a video interview with the Daily Caller in front of a boarded up building.
"People are getting injured and our job is to protect this business,"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/26/2020 3:14:45 PM (No. 521602)
Not “considered himself”. He had seen the bulletin and joined this militia:
Earlier in the day, the Kenosha Guard created a Facebook event called “Armed Citizens to Protect our Lives and Property.” The invite was picked up by the far-right website Infowars.
The Facebook page, which was taken down late Wednesday morning, calls Kenosha Guard a social club. But a post signed “Kenosha Guard Commander,” written to Kenosha Police Chief Miskins, says this:
“As you know I am the commander of the Kenosha Guard, a local militia. We are mobilizing tonight and have about 3,000 RSVP’s. Our effort has made the national media. I ask that you do NOT have your officers tell us to go home under threat of arrest as you have in the past. We are willing to talk to KPD and open a discussion. It is evident, that no matter how many Officers, deputies and other law enforcement officers that are here, you will still be outnumbered.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
volksford 8/26/2020 3:26:11 PM (No. 521619)
BLM Antifa if they aren't militias what are they?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 8/26/2020 3:37:49 PM (No. 521638)
He says he's a member of a militia. That's something the leftists should understand since for years they've been saying that according to the Second Amendment the only people who can own guns are the militia.
I get a kick out of the media that for months have been referring to the rioters as 'peaceful demonstrators' not rioters but when someone finally fights back they're accused of being part of a vigilante group.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ScottC 8/26/2020 3:43:53 PM (No. 521648)
I saw the video and the shooter has a clear case of self defense.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 8/26/2020 3:47:30 PM (No. 521654)
Kid’s a damned hero, from what I can tell. Protecting the homeland.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Blizzard 8/26/2020 4:05:39 PM (No. 521676)
100% self-defense. More of these fascist rioters should have been put down at the start and this would be over by now.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Right Time 8/26/2020 4:10:15 PM (No. 521681)
If Kenosha and state police would have done their job, the violent riot would have been nipped in the bud. At worse, it would have been the uniformed police that would have shot this vermin.
Kyle did KPD's job for them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rabblerouser 8/26/2020 4:16:10 PM (No. 521692)
Anyone find it odd that not only have they only identified 1 of the 3 people shot, but the UK papers are running photos with the protesters faces blurred out? Check out the Sun and Daily Mail.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 8/26/2020 4:27:28 PM (No. 521708)
Not going to be able to find a jury who will convict him, is my bet.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 8/26/2020 4:27:39 PM (No. 521709)
Somebody had to do it! Release him tomorrow... You know, like you would a rioter/anarchist.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/26/2020 4:31:32 PM (No. 521714)
The important thing in these circumstances is, if you are forming a militia, that you move and act as a unit. DO NOT act alone. First of all these cowards won't generally go after groups of armed men. Secondly, having the support of comrades steadies your nerves and prevents violence out of fear or simple reflex.
And the group MUST stand together in support of their members. Get body cams and record the action. Have evidence so you aren't reflexively acvused of crimes when you're defending yourself.
And know that in ANY Democrat controlled cities you are, in effect, behind enemy lines. The police may be quietly for you, but the political leaders are not.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 8/26/2020 4:36:22 PM (No. 521722)
Right on #5. If there is a trial, I would love to be on the jury.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
67cj5 8/26/2020 4:38:55 PM (No. 521726)
The first rioter he shot in the head was a completely separate incident prior to this attack. Scuttlebutt on the interwebs say he was being charged and fired?
In the second incident: The first attacker limped away with what looked like a broken ankle but no bullet holes in him, the dead guy was beating the kid with a skateboard, the guy that got his arm mostly blown off was holding a handgun and preparing to attack, the other 4 or 5 other attackers broke off when the bullets started flying. It was a kill or be killed situation, he did what he had to do.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 8/26/2020 5:07:31 PM (No. 521761)
#12, excellent point. Never fight alone, it doesn't work. You have to have somebody covering your back, and flanks.
The military trains that the absolute minimum combat formation is a fire team, which is typically four men, a full auto weapon, a grenadier (M4 with a grenade launcher under barrel), a rifleman, and a team leader.
Doctrine is to normally function at the squad level (10-12 men), leader, medic and two fire teams of four men. But still, fight in teams, never alone.
And minimum is about four men, far better is ten, or a platoon of two or three squads. Even the exceptionally skilled special ops folks almost never go below 6 men, and they are damn near supermen.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 8/26/2020 5:07:47 PM (No. 521762)
The protesters attack people and burn businesses and someone shoots a couple of these idiots and he's the bad guy?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/26/2020 5:07:56 PM (No. 521763)
Inevitable, and this is just the beginning. As long as the right ones get blown away, I don't particularly care about the circumstances.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 8/26/2020 5:09:10 PM (No. 521765)
#2, still just nibbling around the edges a tiny bit.
If the antifa thugs have any brains (hugely unlikely) they will stand down. I suspect that the militia will not stand down.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 8/26/2020 5:25:48 PM (No. 521786)
Notice the goof with the pistol who got shot in the arm was wearing a paramedic hat.
They're having rioters wear medical insignia to disguise their true intentions.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 8/26/2020 5:32:34 PM (No. 521795)
The streets cleared out pretty quick once rifle fire occurred. It'll be interesting to see if it's a little quieter tonight.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
NYbob 8/26/2020 7:46:35 PM (No. 521918)
My Militia is pretty small. So far it's just me, but I am my own bodyguard so it all works out. Years ago a class III sex offender was going to move into our neighborhood, next to a family with kids. He would have been unsupervised most of the day. The neighbors protested, but no one burned anything. While the street 'debates' were going on, a woman who never would have approved of firearms before this incident, said she was thinking about getting a gun. There is going to be even more of that thinking in the future.
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If he had been on the other side, it wouldn't be a problem, right ?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rytwng 8/26/2020 10:17:31 PM (No. 522016)
He used the Mayor Daley rule, shoot to kill. Two less rioters.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Crosscut 8/26/2020 10:54:59 PM (No. 522047)
Useful idiot, unfortunately. His life is ruined.
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