Alleged Kenosha Killer Loved Cops, Guns, Trump, and 'Triggering the Libs,' Former Classmates Say

[Nevilledog]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kpj4b/alleged-kenosha-killer-loved-cops-guns-trump-and-triggering-the-libs-classmates-say

Kyle Rittenhouse loved cops, guns, President Trump, and “triggering the libs,” according to some of his former classmates at Lakes Community High School in Lake County, Illinois. His clothes were often branded with pro-police slogans, and he carried a Blue Lives Matter phone case, one student said.

Some of his classmates joked that he’d be a mass shooter one day. “I personally believe he went to Wisconsin with the intent to kill,” said one former classmate, who asked not to be identified out of fear for their safety.

Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder in the killing of two Black Lives Matter protesters Tuesday night in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He’d traveled there, he claimed, to help “protect people,” during the ongoing protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. Blake’s family says he’s now partially paralyzed.

While Rittenhouse was only enrolled at Lakes Community High School for the 2017 to 2018 academic year, he left an impression. Students reached by VICE News described him as short-tempered and easily offended.

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[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Another member of the "Well Regulated" Militia

AKA: Self-appointed guardians of white supremacy. Heavily armed with no discipline, no chain of command, no accountability.

[StevieM]

2. Eventually they are going to get a chain of command.

And that will make them even scarier.

[KG]

3. there's no fucking alleged about it

[dalton99a]

4. "If you said anything bad about Trump, he'd threaten you"

Typical Trump trash

[crickets]

5. All the signs were there for years - even Rittenhouse's classmates could see them.

Who drove him to Kenosha? Who picked him up and drove him home? How in the world did he get access to an AR 15 rifle? Who gave him that gun? Why are these questions not being asked and answered in the media?

Btw, notice the plentiful photos of him running around with that gun are not being published in news articles; most often it's just a picture of him cleaning graffiti. Even news articles are shifting the narrative by choosing the most positive public face he chose to publish online about himself.

[d_r]

7. My wife told me

That his mother drove him there and dropped him off, with an ar-15.

[crickets]

8. Thanks, d_r. I've heard that too, but I haven't read about it other than in social media.

I searched around a little and found two articles stating that he drove himself, but this information isn't widely reported, so it's still somewhat unclear. What isn't unclear is that a 17 year-old had no business with access to an AR-15, much less the ability to wander freely in public with it.



I guess the details will come out over time.

[rockfordfile]

6. Not surprised