Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk.
Rittenhouse was invited by the collegeās Turning Point USA chapter to speak at the campus. However, the event was met with backlash from a number of students who objected to Rittenhouseās presence.
The 21-year-old gained notoriety in August 2020 when, at the age of 17, heĀ shot and killed two menāJoseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutzāat a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
He said theĀ three shootings, carried out with a semi-automaticĀ AR-15-style firearm, were in self-defense. TheĀ Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest where the shootings took place was held afterĀ Jacob Blake, a Black man, was left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot by a white police officer.
For anyone interested the full trail is still available online and is a very interesting watch for anyone even remotely interested in the US justice system. I do feel a lot of the commenters above may feel differently after watching the entire trial and viewing the evidence presented first-hand rather than skewed through the lenses of journalists from either side of the political compass.
I think that most critics of Kyle Rittenhouse donāt disagree with the carriage of justice as much as the disgusting capitalization of his person after the fact. And the entire rationalization for bringing a weapon to a protest is frankly sick, whether he used justified force or not.
This very thread is full of people saying that the judge was biased and lying with what actually happened.
edit: look no further that people are comparing the trial to OJ Simpson kek.
And those folks wouldnāt be commenting at all if he wasnāt paraded around like some āget away with murderā mascot. It was a massive and heinous childhood fuckup and heās giving speeches at colleges now like heās something one should aspire to be. Technicalities of the trial are not the real problem people have.
Bro all this crap started since day one, nothing is new here, all the parade and everything happened afterwards.
I think this is some russian bot propaganda thing, because it canāt be that the same lies from day one are still being repeated over and over, including the one that kyle shot black people.
To be fair I was under the assumption that he wasnāt intending to capitalize on this situation at all, he did surrender the firearm used and requested it to be destroyed after the proceedings concluded so that it wouldnāt be sold-off and used as some sort of political symbolā¦ It saddens me to learn that he is using such a tragedy to push any form of message other than a anti-firearm cautionary tale.
Yeah so I donāt think he went and killed some folks to get famous, I think he happened to kill some folks and got famous. And heās malaligned, certainly a dumb kid like most of us were.
My criticism of Kyle is more around conservative folks who want to lean into that dumb kid fuck up like itās something aspirational.
I think absolutely if you want to hold it up as a triumph of the justice system Iām with you. But as an example of a good human not so much.
Naw canāt watch the trial, then youād find out that Rosenbaum had an encounter earlier in the night at a gas station with a guy dressed like Kyle (but +plate carrier) who put out Rosenbaumās dumpster fire (the infanous āShoot me n-wordā video where Rosenbaum gets a pass to say āit.ā) Then a little while later the drone video where Rosenbaum, still starting fires, crouches behind a car while Kyle walks past, steps out supposedly saying he was going to kill Kyle, and chases him/throws the bag, corners him, someone fires a shot from the crowd (likely Ziminski) while Kyle gets trapped by cars, and turning around hearing a shot Rosenbaum grabs for the gun, so Kyle shoots him. Then he makes the phone call (IIRC to Dominick Black), hears āGET HIMā and he starts running, gets hit in the back of the head with a rock that takes him down, he rolls over as jump kick man gets a hit, points it but doesnāt fire as dude was already retreating, Huber hits him with the skateboard and attempts again to take his rifle, shoots Huber, and the other guy who just surrenders, then Gageās fake surrender (war crimes much?) then Gage takes one in the bicep, then Kyle gets up and continues running towards police.
Youād also find out that not only was all that justified, he never ācrossed state lines with the gunā as the gun lived in Kenosha at Dominickās house, and he could in fact legally possess the rifle at 17 due to local laws. Furthermore he worked in Kenosha and his dad lived there. While he did travel from his momās in Antioch 20mi away, Huber came from Silver Lake also 20mi away, and Gage came from 46mi away.
That wouldnāt be good, canāt learn the actual facts of the case, just gotta hang your hat on āhe shouldnāt have been there.ā