Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
One thing I got from these last three months of rioting: I’ll never see a skateboarder with the same innocence as before. My thinking is they are Open Carrying an impact weapon and I don’t know the bastards.
A 17-year-old Illinois resident has been arrested by police for first-degree murder after allegedly fatally shooting two Wisconsin protesters on Tuesday evening.
Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois, was charged in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and labelled as a “fugitive of justice”, according to Lake County, Illinois Clerk of Courts public records first obtained by the Daily Dot.
The Antioch Police Department made the arrest on Wednesday after the suspect allegedly fled Wisconsin for his home state following the shooting.
“(The suspect) fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for that offence,” according to the document.
17-year-old arrested for murder and fleeing state after Kenosha shootings that left two dead
There is a legal term/principle/idea whereas if you flee the scene of a crime, you are nailing yourself with an assumption of guilt. Andrew Branca has mentioned more than once I am ashamed I keep forgetting the name.
This kid just made his case 100 times harder than it should have been. I still believe the shootings were justified till the evidence says otherwise, but his damn running away makes for wavering beliefs.
If you have to remove yourself from the scene of an incident because of safety reasons, do so while on the phone with 911 or call them as soon as you can explaining why you had to move and where you can be found.
PS: Yes, the question of WTF was a 17 year old doing there is running around in the cranial penthouse looking for a logical answer.
UPDATE: Reader Rob Crawford was right. Andrew Branca was once again nice enough to share a long explanation in Facebook.
Andrew Branca
The phrase you’re looking for is “consciousness of guilt evidence,” but it’s inapplicable to this case. It’s intended to apply to persons who are attempting to avoid actual criminal liability by flight or tampering with evidence or lying to the police. Think “Bernie Goetz fleeing subway car after shooting the men who attacked him, and running to CT to hide” as a more classic example of consciousness of guilt flight. That’s not what happened here.
Here, Rittenhouse immediately turned himself over to police while still at the scene of the shooting, so he clearly wasn’t attempting to avoid responsibility or identification or avoid prosecution–he knew the authorities knew who he was and where they could find him.
More likely the Trayvon-Martin-aged Rittenhouse simply didn’t understand that he was prohibited from just going home, if going home meant leaving the state.
I know the complaint against him states that he was fleeing for purposes of avoiding prosecution, but that’s a presumption–note there’s no evidence cited in support of that claim. And if I had $1 for every profoundly defective and falsified criminal complaint I saw in an apparently clear-cut case of self-defense, I’d have more BMW motorcycles in my garage.
Rittenhouse is apparently, based on known evidence, no more guilty of murder in this event than Officer Chauvin is guilty of murdering George Floyd or Officer Rolfe is guilty of murdering Rayshaad Brooks or the McCloskeys are guilty of unlawful use of weapons when facing down a threatening mob outside their home. These charges and prosecutions are all political theater for the benefit of the Progressive fascist team, which these days often includes the local prosecutor.
One of this day I am gonna get hit with a bill from Andrew and I am gonna need a massive fundraiser.
In the meantime, I will plug again his very good and necessary book. Kidding aside, get the darn thing and read it cover to cover at least twice.
I’m ripping off the video from Miguel’s last post.
Now of I’m following this correctly, the mob threw an object that looks like a Molotov cocktail at the shooter. He ran, they chased him, they jumped him and tackled him, then one guy kicked him. It was then as he was being rushed my more members of the mob, one of which had a Glock in his hand, did he from a seated position score three hits. Two fatal and one debilitating.
I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me like he fully executed every duty to retreat.
Antifa and their supporters, however, must control the narrative. In that, they must be the victims.
So this is the smear they are perpetuating.
After tonight, I feel it’s very important to stress the following.
– The police will allow right wing terrorists to murder protestors as they see fit
– The killer planned to kill (he was wearing plastic gloves)
– Protestors N E E D to arm themselves. No longer optional.(1/?) pic.twitter.com/gLdUfzR6NY
— lvcifer ? (@AnarchoLvcifer) August 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/rabbidbunnyz/status/1298488694614003714
People are yelling "Call the Police" after a suspected white supremacist runs thru the streets of Kenosha shooting people…..
but they don't realize that white supremacists groups are working WITH the police to carry out these ambush shootings
— Tariq Nasheed ?? (@tariqnasheed) August 26, 2020
A white gunman opened fire on protesters against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, killing two people Tuesday night. @lgmandelabarnes says "we can't even act surprised that this happened" and that the threat of white militias has been ignored for too long. pic.twitter.com/FO6HC7rvs3
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) August 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/savantifa/status/1298522967983321088
They are pushing the hoax that this was a coordinated murder between white supremacists and police.
They are doing the shooter (I will not repeat that information).
I fear for this young man’s life. That the mob will come to his home for vengeance.
This is Antifa weaponizing social media against us.
If we defend ourselves they will destroy us online and attempt to set a narrative to destroy us in court.
It makes for an understandable timeline.
Hat Tip To Art Not-Mullen
The guy in the brown shirt was seen earlier last night taunting the armed citizens at the gas station in Kenosha with both attitude and asking to be shot. I am not saying it was him, that remains unconfirmed, but the guy who got that grazing head shot sure seems to be the same.
Here is the video of the taunting: Fast forward to around 1:08.
Here’s the video from earlier pic.twitter.com/0euVaBhGE1
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) August 26, 2020
And the person shot in the head.
There is no reason for anybody to buy one, yet he did and in minutes. Isn’t that hypocrisy?
I am going with fake Marine and picture stolen from somewhere.
Apparently this was an unarmed “peaceful protester” shot by those evil White supremacists packin’ AR 79s. /sarcasm off>
Click here for a video of the wounded protester. It is quite graphic