Kyle Rittenhouse won’t be charged for gun offense in Illinois: prosecutors

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  1. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    Ok 25 - 50 times :)
     
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    If you have a job somewhere, do you belong there? Rittenhouse had a job in Kenosha.
     
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    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    What was his job.?
     
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    He was a lifeguard.
     
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    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    A lifeguard in the middle of the city at night armed :)
    In addition, he was furloughed !!!!

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...0200826-xdww3peuj5ddbimcj4vikx63y4-story.html
    Court records indicate that Rittenhouse worked as a lifeguard at a YMCA in suburban Lindenhurst. A YMCA spokeswoman told the Tribune that Rittenhouse was a part-time employee who has been furloughed since March because of the pandemic.
     
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    You don't care what his intentions were but you have no problem declaring what they are. You have declared him guilty and you have done so based soley on your own conclussions. And then you get upset when people apply the same standards to you. That is hypocrisy. Either prove your claims of him looking for trouble or admit that you have no idea what is going on or you're a liar.
     
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    And where was he working after that? You don’t know? You stop there?

    Here’s his lawyer and what they are going to argue in court:

    Pierce argues that when Rittenhouse finished his shift as a lifeguard in Kenosha last Tuesday, he decided he wanted to help clean up damage in Kenosha left amid unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

    https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-new...ongfully-charged-after-acting-in-self-defense

    So I really don’t know what to tell you. You can believe he is lying. You can’t actually prove they are though. Who says he was working for the ymca that day? No report does. They don’t mention if he was brought back. They do mention he was fired AFTER the arrest, so he was still employed by the YMCA at the time the event occurred. BTW, Lindenhurst is in Illinois not Wisconsin. So who was he life guarding for in Wisconsin? No one is quite sure yet.
     
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    Good grief how more excuses are you going to make :)
     
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    Seems like you’re using a job he had been furloughed from in another state to claim he couldn’t have a job in Kenosha. Realities aren’t excuses.
     
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    The reality is he wasn't working in WI :)
     
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    Wow, I didn’t know I was wrong to go to another state. Well, it’s time I learned this about America.
     
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    When one side is the aggressor attacking the other side. And the other side acts in self defense. Then yes it is self defense for one side. Unless you want to pretend that nothing happened.
     
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    Like I have been saying, Rittenhouse didn't belong there.
     
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    The incident occurred in Wisconsin. The fact that he’s not being charged in Illinois is irrelevant.
     
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    It's America, he has every right to be there as anyone does.
     
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    There’s a thing called tempting fate. He should have not tempted fate.

    If you have a right to be anywhere, go to certain neighborhoods in Compton California or The the south side of Chicago and tell them about your rights.
     
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    "Tempting fate" or not, you have a right to be where you have a right to be.
    If someone disagrees and tries to illegally remove you by force, you also have the right to act in your own self-defense.
     
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    So now we can victim shame? She shouldn't have been wearing that skirt because she was tempting fate. Same rules and standards apply. You don't get to have it both ways.
     
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    What were you wearing when it happened?
     
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    It doesn't matter what you've been saying. You're not the final arbiter of where people "belong" or not. He was well within his rights to travel the 19 miles from Antioch to Kenosha. In America, we don't arbitrarily restrict people's right to travel based on mdrobster's feelings of whether they belong or not, a fact for which I am very grateful.
     
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    What do you mean he didn't belong there? He drove twenty miles to join with others protecting businesses from hundreds and thousands of rioters, many of whom(rioters) were from elsewhere. In fact, none of them should have been there causing mayhem. At least the teen was there to do good. I drive fourteen miles to go grocery shopping. Do I not belong there? Had the rioters not rioted, the teen and others would not have been there. And had the rioters not chased and assaulted him, he would not have been forced to shoot them in self defense. Part of me thinks he is a foolish teen who made matters worse. Another part of me marvels at his courage, decency, and idealistic motivations. Either way, he is neither a bad person nor a murderer. Truth be known, the do nothing politicians killed those rioters. Look there.
     
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    Fine, and now he is facing charges. He didn't belong there, he went looking for trouble and found it.
     
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    Yeah that's why he was walking alone :)
     
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    Yeah, why blame the violent mobs or the do nothing politicians when you can blame the idealistic teen with a speck of courage.
     
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    He did not belong there and he is not the law.
     

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