Kyle Rittenhouse Pleads Not Guilty to All 7 Charges

[phill4paul]

Not. Guilty.

Kyle Rittenhouse – the Illinois teenager who fatally shot two demonstrators at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the police shooting of Jacob Blake – pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to felony charges including intentional homicide.

Rittenhouse, who just turned 18 on Sunday, entered the plea during a brief video hearing.

Rittenhouse is accused of leaving his home in Antioch, Illinois, before traveling to Kenosha to team up with a group of armed adult volunteers who were in the city to allegedly protect private property from demonstrators protesting the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man who was shot seven times in the back and left paralyzed.

Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the killings, is charged with five felonies: first degree intentional homicide in the death of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36; first degree reckless homicide of Anthony Huber, 26, attempted first degree intentional homicide of Gaige Grosskreutz, 22, as well as two counts of recklessly endangering safety, for shots fired at others.

He also faces charges of being a minor in possession of a firearm, a misdemeanor, and with violating a curfew in effect on Aug. 25, a civil citation.

Rittenhouse was armed with a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle, and allegedly killed Rosenbaum after he threw a plastic bag at Rittenhouse – and missed – before coming towards him and attempting to wrestle away the rifle.

In video captured of the aftermath of the deadly altercation, various protesters can be heard shouting “get him” and “beat him up” after Rittenhouse fatally shot Rosenbaum. When Rittenhouse tried to flee down the street, he tripped and fell to the ground. Huber then struck him with his skateboard and attempted to take the rifle. Rittenhouse then opened fire, killing Huber and injuring Grosskreutz, who was armed with a handgun.

Rittenhouse turned himself in at a local police station in Antioch the morning after the shootings, where he apparently admitted to shooting protesters, according to records from the Antioch Police Department. He was with his mother when he walked into the police station before 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 26.

“I shot two white kids,” Rittenhouse reportedly admitted, adding that he had “ended a man’s life.”

Rittenhouse’s attorneys claim that their client feared death or bodily harm and acted in self-defense when he fired on demonstrators. They also claim that the charges are politically motivated and that the extradition violates the accused killer’s constitutional rights.

Conservatives and far-right figures have also sought to depict Rittenhouse as a patriot and heroic figure who took up arms to protect people and property from protesters for racial justice and against police brutality, and have raised enough money for the teenager to make his $2 million bail.

Others see Rittenhouse as a domestic terrorist and right-wing vigilante who arrived in Kenosha with the intent to incite, or even kill, protesters.

The Kenosha killings came three months after the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody, when the 46-year-old Black man was being restrained by police officers in Minneapolis in striking footage that was captured by bystanders and galvanized a massive wave of outrage and protests across the United States and worldwide.

The killing of Floyd, as well as other police-committed killings of Black people, galvanized a rapid upsurge in activism by communities opposed to systemic racism and police impunity who united under the banner of the Black Live Matter movement.

The protest movement, which was accompanied by scenes of widespread unrest in major metropolitan centers across the country unseen since the Civil Rights era, quickly became a fault line in U.S. politics. President Donald Trump blasted protesters as “terrorists” and aggressively pursued a hard-nosed message stressing the need to restore order in an unsuccessful bid to capitalize on the unrest to press his case for reelection in Wisconsin and other battleground states.

https://themindunleashed.com/2021/0...y-to-all-7-charges-in-deadly-kenosha-shooting

 

[69360]

They will eventually drop the charges. Just have to give it some time to get out of the news cycle and public awareness. The case is crap. He was arrested to prevent further looting and arson.

 

[CaptUSA]

They will eventually drop the charges. Just have to give it some time to get out of the news cycle and public awareness. The case is crap. He was arrested to prevent further looting and arson.

I think it's more likely they'll try to split the difference somehow. Convict on lesser charges. A full acquittal will bring it right back into the news and the left will lose their shyte.

Truth and facts are nothing to these people - perception is everything.

 

[Anti Globalist]

I think it's more likely they'll try to split the difference somehow. Convict on lesser charges. A full acquittal will bring it right back into the news and the left will lose their shyte.

Truth and facts are nothing to these people - perception is everything.

The only lesser charge they'll give him is being in position of a firearm under the age of 18.

 

[Matt Collins]

Kyle Rittenhouse pleads "Not Guilty"

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/9535...osha-shooter-pleads-not-guilty-to-all-charges

 

[CaptUSA]

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/9535...osha-shooter-pleads-not-guilty-to-all-charges

You know there's a search function, right?? http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?551751-Kyle-Rittenhouse-Pleads-Not-Guilty-to-All-7-Charges

 

[Anti Federalist]

Meanwhile:

No Charges Against Police Officers in Jacob Blake Shooting in Kenosha

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/01/05/jacob-blake-no-charges-kenosha/

Joel B. Pollak 5 Jan 2021

Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced Tuesday afternoon that no police would face criminal charges in the August 2020 shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake Jr., which triggered large riots in the Wisconsin town.

“No Kenosha law enforcement officer in this case will be charged with any criminal offense,” Graveley said, adding that Blake would also not be charged, and describing his review of the facts and the law as an “exhaustive investigation.”

Blake was shot seven times from behind after an altercation with police who were trying to arrest him on Aug. 23. Blake was wanted on charges that included sexual assault, and his alleged victim called 911 after he came to her residence. He fought police and evaded a Taser, allegedly reaching for a knife inside his car before he was shot. He is paralyzed from the waist down; he pleaded guilty to lesser charges in November and received two years’ probation in a deal with prosecutors.

The Black Lives Matter movement embraced Blake as one of its iconic victims; he was hailed by Democrats, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who met with Blake’s family and initially blamed police and “systemic racism” for the shooting.

Graveley began his remarks by pleading with the community that “rather than burning things down,” as happened after Blake was shot in late August last year, residents use his “narrow” decision about the prosecution to begin a “healing process.”

 

[69360]

The only lesser charge they'll give him is being in position of a firearm under the age of 18.

That charge is complete crap. If that were the case no kids could ever go hunting in Wisconsin alone and we all know that isn't the case.

 

[pcosmar]

“I shot two white kids,” Rittenhouse reportedly admitted, adding that he had “ended a man’s life.”

He ended violent Criminal Child molester,, involved in another Violent Crime.

and wounded two attackers.. both involved in criminal assault.

I CAN MUSTER NO SYMPATHY FOR THOSE CRIMINALS. I can only hope a jury agrees.. or a judge ends it first.