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Kyle Rittenhouse texts pledging to ‘murder’ shoplifters disillusion his ex-spokesperson
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
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Wait you mean when he grabbed a rifle and traveled an inordinate distance to the scene of a riot and shot two people to death, he wasn't just an innocent bystander after all?
Slight correction, he only drove about 30 minutes. Wikipedia says he left Antioch IL which is 5 miles south of the state border to go murder protesters.
Only way he really went out of his way is if he road the Metra commuter train from Antioch to Kenosha since each are the terminus of different Metra routes, and this was probably outside of normal Metra operating hours. Plus he doesn't strike me as someone who would take a 5 hour train ride to travel 20 miles
Note: I just picked the Metra stations in both Antioch and Kenosha for the below map. I don't care enough to bother getting more accurate than that
The real point here is that he was not in danger until he sought it out. He didn't suddenly find himself a bystander in a dangerous situation, he went out of his way to place himself there. He actively sought this situation out, placed himself in harm's way, put in active effort to get himself involved. He then acted like he was just defending himself when he found the exact situation he'd been actively seeking, just so that he had a convenient excuse to shoot some black people.
Cool. Doesn't matter.
They need to try him again in court.