Eighteen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for fatally shooting two men and wounding a third. He traveled to Kenosha, Wis., to protect local business owners and provide medical aid after two nights of destructive riots. Rittenhouse, who was trained as a lifeguard, brought a medical kit and an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle.
Within 48 hours of the chaotic events, he was charged with two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, recklessly endangering safety and illegal possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under the age of 18. The gun charge was later dropped, but the politically ambitious district attorney, a Democrat, overstepped reason and acted in his own political self-interest to charge Rittenhouse so quickly.
In all that I have seen (a gun pointed at his head, etc.), Rittenhouse acted in self-defense and had no ill intent. One of his attackers, Joseph Rosenbaum, was a child molester, and one of the other guys had a felony charge.
According to a statement from Kenosha Police, of 175 people arrested in Kenosha during the looting and riots, 102 live outside the community. None are in jail now.
Black Lives Matter protesters, largely white, millennial, liberal college brats and most of whom were not from Kenosha, soon realized they were no longer in a Seattle or a Portland full of hipsters, grunge bands and spineless citizens. They were in Wisconsin, filled with open gun-carry folks of German descent.