Case against Kyle Rittenhouse
The Persecution of Kyle was that he had no right to defend himself against a violent mob that was assaulting him.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2021-11-22 |
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| The left cares about innocent/framed people languishing in prison by over-zealous DA/Prosecutors | Except Kyle Rittenhouse. |
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| Rosenbaum was a bipolar mental patient (and serial pedophile) that was off his meds, and who minutes earlier was daring anyone in earshot to shoot him and yelling, in Rittenhouse's presence, “If I catch any of you guys alone tonight, I’m going to fucking kill you!” He was chasing Kyle, who was running away, and tried to take Kyle's gun when he was shot. |
The prosecution argued in opening that the defendant had not acted in self-defense when he shot three people. They had witness after witness admit that Kyle was fleeing, never the aggressor, and that the aggressors were all charging Kyle and preventing him from escape. They had successfully kicked him multiple times, smashed a skateboard across his head, hit him in the back with an unknown liquid, and was trying to disarm or incapacitate him, before Kyle shot. Their final witness admitted that Kyle only fired at him, after he pointed a loaded gun at Kyle causing the prosecution to face-palm themselves in front of the Jury. This was the same prosecution witness whose best friend tweeted from his hospital bed, that his biggest regret was that Kyle shot first.
The prosecution closed the case saying that while Rittenhouse acted in self-defense but that he forfeited his right to self-defense by provoking Joseph Rosenbaum by putting out a dumpster fire that Rosenbaum had set and was attempting to push toward a line of police cars, or that maybe Kyle had once swept Rosenbaum (let the muzzle of the gun, momentarily point in Rosenbaum's direction). Somehow, either of those acts meant Kyle gave up his right to self defense.
The prosecution seriously argued during summation that Kyle should have let Rosenbaum and the other thugs who were assaulting him, to disarm him and let himself get beaten, "Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right?" (Those are the prosecutions words). That was the defenses case: that we should trust felonious thugs with long rap-sheets, because only good guys beat people and try to burn down cities.
Cause and effect[edit | edit source]
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| It doesn't matter if Rosenbaum was intending on killing/harming Kyle, it matters if it was reasonable for Kyle to assume Rosenbaum was a deadly threat based on his actions |
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| 10x as many people are killed each year by hands and fists as by AR-15's. |
Prosecutions case seems to revolve around:
- You can’t use a gun for self defense — thus by bringing a gun, self-defense is nullified. That's a lie, not the law. You don't have a duty to die, nor is just having a gun a provocation.
- That after chasing down Kyle, and threatening to murder him, and trying to take the gun, and beat Kyle, that Rosenbaum was not a deadly threat?
- The prosecution admitted Kyle feared for his life (with good reason)… which proved the case of self defense for Kyle.
Remember, none of this would have happened if:
- the press/BLM/Antifa hadn’t of lied about the justified killing of a bad guy and provoked a mob of violent miscreants
- if the local authorities had shut down the riots the first or second night because they had been burning down things
- if the leftist DA's and Judges had held the criminal attackers in prison for prior crimes
- If during the night the rioters were not trying to burn things and assaulting people that were trying to stop them (what Kyle was doing)
Way, way way, down the list of proximate causes was Kyle bringing a gun to a riot to defend himself while he helped and protected people and property.
Think of this — if Kyle is guilty of defense, while violent people are in the process of assaulting him, what does that make the Capitol Cop that shot Ashley Babbit, for offering no threat at all? (A 105 lbs weaponless woman who just wanted to give a few congressmen a piece of her mind, and NO threat to the officer).
Testify[edit | edit source]
There was a lot of drama and hand-wringing around whether Kyle should have testified. The prosecution hadn't made it's case, and despite them violating Kyle's civil rights (and creating grounds for appeal) by implying him not testifying was evidence of guilt -- Kyle testified anyways.
Kyle handled himself well, and obsiously wanted his day in court to testify his innocence and what happened. As well as show that he was shooken up by being assaulted by 4 felons who tried to kill him, and forced him to kill them. But the prosecution got a couple of shots back. Like Kyle lying/oversimplifying and saying that day he was an EMT, instead of just a Jr. medic with training in EMT. Or a few other minor points. And the pundits had opinions on why he should have NOT testified. [1]
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🔗 Links
- RedState: Dismembering Prosecutions fallacies
- Legal Insurrection: Weak Defense Closing
- Bearing Arms: Case against Kyle
- Truth about guns: Self defense narrative
- AR15.com: Early thread on what happened
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- ↑ Kyle's self-testimony:
