My officers did nothing wrong in allowing teen gunman to walk away after allegedly killing 2

[CatWoman]

My officers did nothing wrong in allowing teen gunman to walk away after allegedly killing 2 protesters, Kenosha police chief says

“There was nothing to suggest this individual was involved in any criminal behavior,” Chief Dan Miskinis said Friday, explaining the abnormal circumstances his officers were in.

Kenosha police Chief Daniel Miskinis on Friday tried to rationalize why his officers allowed a teenage gunman to walk away from the scene after he allegedly killed two people with an assault rifle earlier this week — a situation that led to heavy criticism of the department.

Cellphone videos show that in the moments after the Tuesday night shooting, Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, walked toward police while carrying a rifle with his hands up — as if to surrender — as people nearby shouted to alert officers that he was the shooter. But officers did not attempt to stop him and Rittenhouse kept walking. He eventually made his way back to his home town of Antioch across the border in Illinois, where he later turned himself in.

“There were a lot of people in the area, a lot of people with weapons, and unfortunately, a lot of gunfire,” Miskinis said Friday during a news conference in Kenosha.

“So, what the officers were walking into, or driving into in this case, was a shots fired complaint, not a shooting, not a person down complaint. We have had many of those over the course of this unfortunate event,” he said.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/28/21406055/kyle-rittenhouse-jacob-blake-dan-miskinis-kenosha-shooting-police-protesters?fbclid=IwAR0ARr-9w6b6G2b2Bq7qLFoPNCJOO5Cwuux5FovJEbC4HJVSiy5Y4AY14Rk

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Again, this guy needs to go, sweeping this under the rug..."its a riot this sh*t happens".

that is really taking a stand on things dude. Doesn't even have the balls to just out right back the shooter.

[boston bean]

2. Except for the fact he was surrendering himself to them with an AR 15 strapped to his chest.

[onecaliberal]

3. So an unarmed black man was shot in the back 7 times for walking away

From police. But this white asshole carrying a Rifle Wales away from cops and that is okay... only a hatful soulless piece of garbage can’t see this.

[SamKnause]

4. Liar !!!

People were shouting he just shot someone.

People on both sides of the street were shouting he just shot someone.

They were pointing to him and saying he just shot someone.

You can bet your ass if he was black they would have paid attention to the people shouting.

[dalton99a]

5. This racist police chief has to go.

[CatWoman]

9. i read yesterday the ACLU was pushing for his resignation

[Cha]

15. Good! & he can thank the police who let the shooter

go for it.. and the way he's rationalizing it.

[Iliyah]

6. He claims he have not even reviewed the tape of . .

shooting of J Blake.

[dalton99a]

10. He doesn't have a TV or internet

[Blue_true]

7. So when a number of people are pointing at a guy saying "he just shot someone", that doesn't

warrant his cops at least detaining the guy? The police chief is a disgrace, he should be fired ASAP.

[SlogginThroughIt]

8. Shots fired and he has an AR-15

Shots fired and he has an AR-15 and they don’t think they might need to know about him? Or at least ask him some questions.... Fuck this. If he were black they would have done that regardless of if there were reports of shots fired.

[Blue_true]

13. And people were pointing at him saying that he just shot some people.

That chief is showing the incompetent and morally corrupt leadership that resulted in a cop putting seven bullets in a man’s back.

[NNadir]

11. Now if he was black of course, he'd be riddled with bullets, as we know from his officers...

...behavior for a person who didn't have a gun and wasn't murdering people.

[MagickMuffin]

12. Shots FIRED complaint

not a shooting, not a person down complaint."

People were screaming at the enforcers Rittenhouse was an active shooter. But hey, he was invited by the enforcers to begin with so why would they arrest their invited guest?

[Cha]

14. Looks like the fucking shooter did the Kenosha Police's

work for them. Too dense. They can shoot a Black man in the back 7 times but they can't arrest a white shooter when he's walking toward with his AK.

They BLEW IT

[mzmolly]

16. Rather, "my officers did nothing"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Amazing