Of all the video that has been shown of Kyle Rittenhouse, I think these two seconds, shown in this Tweet are perhaps the most important.
https://twitter.com/firstcitizensam/status/1299087825854316549
First of all (and this has nothing to do with the rest of this post), holy shit!
That camera angle captures the exact moment where a human bicep turns to mist. Actual mist. A cloud of aerosolized arm.
Gaige Grosskreutz is a lucky man, had that bullet been one inch lower it would have severed his humeroradial joint and blown his arm off.
You can also tell the complete and utter shock that Mr. Grosskreutz experienced at getting shot. The way he jumps and turns away.
That is the crucial point of that video.
Antifa and the activist media Left are pushing the narrative that Kyle Rittenhouse was there to commit murder.
But when Mr. Rittenhouse had the drop on Mr. Grosskreutz, spraying part of his upper arm into the Wisconsin night air, Mr. Grosskreutz turned and fled and Mr. Rittenhouse DID NOT shoot him in the back.
The threat was retreating and there was no need for a followup shot.
Furthermore, you notice that the guy to the right of Mr. Grosskreutz immediately puts his hands up and Mr. Rittenhouse does not point his rifle at him. Again, if as Antifa says, he was there to cause casualties, his control after he fired to do a threat assessment is contradictory to someone there to commit a mass shooting.
Those two seconds, I believe more than any other segment of video, truly demonstrate that this was self-defense and not premeditated murder.
And from other angles there were plenty of other Antifags to be seen running past/backpedalling from the encounter.
Good News.
It is confirmed that Kyle and his parents accepted Attorney Lin Wood’s offer to represent them.
There is also a charitable 501(c)(4) donation page for his defense.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-nick-sandmanns-attorney-lin-wood-takes-kyle-rittenhouses-defense-pro-bono/
If he was there to commit murder wouldnt he have started shooting way sooner AND fired more than 3 shots?
If he went there to commit murder he wouldn’t have given interviews and talked to police. He would have found a hidden position with good visibility and shot from there.
This. This exactly.
It’s amazing Gage didn’t have an AD at that time either in reaction. I’d think he might have been chamber empty, or trying to hold at gunpoint except the trigger is forward while he’s later ruinning his muzzle crown.
I wonder if it was a contact shot due to the damage, very similar to what the gas pressure will do with a contact shot but I can’t tell from the video.
There is also a pic while the arm guy is still whole,moments before getting shot with his hands up and in extreme close proximity. That also shows to me imo that Kyle was effectively evaluating threats since he didn’t shoot him until actually accted by him.
I’d also say a 17 year without the training demonstrated better use of force judgement thanany cops….
Derp, should have watched the video first, clearly not a contact shot. Gas pressure is a hell of thing still I guess.
Here is a link that has the pic I was talking about. It is in a heavy article, though I think I saw it on twitter originally.
https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1228205254.jpg?resize=782,521
I love how the whole media is focusing on the “unarmed” status of the people attacking him (he didn’t actually point the pistol AT him, exactly, so that’s okay, apparently). As if a mob of angry people armed with fists and skateboards (and a large number of probably illegal guns) needed to be carrying firearms to present a threat to a person. I guess you are supposed to wait until the mob has you surrounded and your limbs all restrained, and start actively beating you to death, and THEN maybe it’s okay to use lethal force on them. Of course, they will have taken your gun away by that point, if they don’t actually turn it on you.
The whole point of this trial is to discourage anyone from taking any action at all against the rioters. They won’t let the police do anything, and they sure aren’t about to let civilians attempt to discourage them. The only allowed response if to let the rioters have the streets and hide at home. Of course Ritterhouse wasn’t trying to stop rioters, he was volunteering as a medic, trying to keep the situation safe and under control, and he had no intention of using his gun until he was forced to. Perhaps he would have been wiser to go unarmed, trusting the mob not to beat him to severely…or not…but since he WAS armed, the response was the correct one. An armed person cannot allow an obvious assailant to close the range and get to arms reach, or the gun is worse than useless. The idiots attacking an armed man expecting the law to protect them (while engaging in anarchy and violence themselves) are the ones who caused this to happen.
I can only hope that the prosecutor knows damn well that these charges can’t stick and is only using this to pressure others from taking up arms, in effect sending a message. The trial won’t be over for months, and in the meantime others will think twice before daring to oppose the mob,lest they end up forced to defend themselves and tried for murder as well. It would still scar Ritterhouse for life and put him through months of hell and torment, but it’s better than the alternative: that they are actually attempting to destroy a decent young kids life for daring to defend himself. But knowing leftists, it’s probably the latter.
Hard to believe anyone could watch the video of what happened and find him guilty, but these lawyers are wizards at twisting the law to meet their requirements. Thank God Ritterhouse has some good lawyers of his own. I was ambivalent about the situation until I watched the video, but now I don’t see how he could nave reacted differently. His only crime was being there at all, really, and that applies to ALL of them running around burning and looting, carrying guns.
I also think someone was shooting at him. What else would the additional shots fired immediately after he shoots Grosskreuz be? I think the gunman who fired the first shot while he was being chased (possibly also directed at him) saw him shoot the first man, and fired a number of shots at him, but missed, which led him to retreat, fearing for his life (more than he would have with just an angry mob shouting for his blood, that is), and which explains his readiness to use the rifle again. He thought they were shooting at him, and he may have been correct.
There’s STILL a lot of people who think that the kid set up with a machine gun and mowed down half a parade.
That’s the public relations battle we’re going to continue to fight.