Starker on 5/12/2021 at 21:50
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Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder agreed with the defense about the June fight and interactions Rittenhouse has had with the Proud Boys. He deferred a decision on the pharmacy video but said he was inclined to exclude it.
It was during discussion about that video that Binger said prosecutors have infrared surveillance footage that he said shows Rittenhouse chasing Rosenbaum, who was the first person Rittenhouse shot.
Rittenhouse attorney Mark Richards maintained it was Rosenbaum who started chasing Rittenhouse, yelling out, “Kill him!” He said Rosenbaum cornered Rittenhouse in front of a row of cars in a parking lot and threw a bag at him before trying to grab Rittenhouse's gun.
Binger said the surveillance footage shows Rittenhouse chasing Rosenbaum with a fire extinguisher before Rosenbaum turned to confront him. Binger said Rosenbaum was probably trying to push the barrel of Rittenhouse's rifle away.
Oh wow... That pretty much seals it. Not only was he fantasising about shooting people before, it looks like he actively antagonised the first victim.
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During a hearing Friday on several motions, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger asked to argue at trial that Rittenhouse subscribes to the Proud Boys' white supremacist philosophies and violent tactics. Binger pointed out that Rittenhouse was seen at a bar with members of the white nationalist group's Wisconsin chapter in January and traveled to Miami days later to meet the group's national president.
Yeah, if you go meet the leader of the Proud Boys, fat chance you didn't know what you were doing. Btw, these are the Proud Boys, according to their founder (NSFW, as it contains explicit calls for violence): (
https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1306805724975046659)
No wonder they are lavishing praise on the shooter and holding rallies in appreciation for him. This fits right with their agenda.
june gloom on 5/12/2021 at 22:40
Quote Posted by Azaran
This is a lot different than "Crazed shooter goes on an unprovoked rampage against unarmed protestors", which is what I was led to believe by the media when this whole thing started.
I mean, I know most media outlets, left & right, are filthy weasels who selectively edit the truth, but that's a new low
Before I say anything I need to point that the media is primarily centrist/neoliberal in its ideology. There is no mainstream "left-wing" media outlet, at least not in the English speaking world.
Anyway, don't be suckered in by the reactionaries in this thread trying to justify murder. There is no good-faith argument for what Rittenhouse did. The details of how he acquired the gun are irrelevant. The details of the situation that resulted in him using that gun are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that he brought a gun to a demonstration against police violence as part of a counter-protest. Why? What narrative was he responding to? What narrative has he become part of?
Tocky on 18/12/2021 at 05:24
Just saw this and knew it went here.
[video=youtube_share;-c8stoUN2x4]https://youtu.be/-c8stoUN2x4[/video]
