Rittenhouse didn't just illegally bring a gun to a volatile area, he lied about being an EMT.

[Baitball Blogger]

Just how much leverage do you give an adolescent to make mistakes that lead to the death of people around him? That is almost rhetorical, given that we had a case a few years ago that successfully pleaded a case of Affluenza. But, Rittenhouse isn't from a rich family. His best defense is that he's white and this involved protesters that conservatives don't like. He might not be charged with murder, but there has to be consequences for what he did, or it's open house on double standards.

[Walleye]

1. He's not rich. But he has powerful right wing hate-group money behind him

Of course I think his mom should be charged with something too. Reckless endangerment at least

[bikernks]

2. Kyle Rittenhouse

Was not taken out of state by his Mom to participate in the riots. He was in Kenosha because that’s where his Dad lives and he was visiting him. Dude is a shithead but his Mom had nothing to do with this. I don’t know why, for the life of me, this rumor that his Mom drove him there and gave him the gun, won’t go away. Part of me thinks it’s because some people don’t want it to go away.

[Walleye]

4. Wow that is a different story from what I'm hearing. I feel sorry for his mom if that's the case

She obviously loves the boy he’s well taken care of

[Sympthsical]

13. The mom had nothing to do with it.

People keep saying "out of state" or "crossing state lines" for some reason, and I don't know why. It makes it sound like he came from far away to insert himself into Kenosha. He lived twenty miles away from Kenosha. His father lived there. His job was there. Antioch is literally along the Wisconsin state line.

I think the state line thing started because people thought the gun was in Illinois. It wasn't. Rittenhouse's friend stored the gun in Wisconsin.

I think somewhere very early on in the story, one aspect got mixed in. Rittenhouse's mother drove him to the police station to turn himself in - that is true. And that grew into a story about how his mother drove him to the protest.

His mother driving him to the protest and a gun crossing state lines are two things that were disproved very, very early on, but the narrative ran with it and just won't let it die. It's not a good look, because it says a lot of people haven't read simple, easily researched facts about the case before spreading misinformation.

[Walleye]

15. Thanks for clearing that up. That makes it a different story.Blame it on the older boys.

And blame it on the kid. He’s showing absolutely no remorse or sympathy for the people he killed and their families. Sociopath is right

[Pachamama]

5. The mother drove a minor with a deadly weapon obtained illegally across state lines

Explain to me how she has nothing to do with this…

[Yarnie]

12. No, she didn't

And, the weapon didn't cross state lines. It had been in the possession of a friend in Wisconsin.

[jimfields33]

18. Link please.

[BlackSkimmer]

22. No, she didn't. nt

[Champp]

6. Link?

Please provide a link to the information you are citing, since it runs counter to the widely held narrative.

[Chille]

9. almost like the narritive

having others think he killed POC when everyone is white

[Champp]

17. No link, no can have confidence in the counter assertion

Too much propaganda nowadays. Claims require evidence (N.B. Republicans still in an intimate and toxic embrace with THE BIG LIE).

[MrsCoffee]

10. He testified he went there for the riots.

Mr Rittenhouse said on the stand he was in town because he had seen the destruction caused by the unrest. In particular, he mentioned seeing on social media that a police officer had a brick thrown at his head.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59239853

[Effete Snob]

14. Who are you going to believe?

Rittenhouse or some internet rando?

[mcar]

24. He testified yesterday that he drove from his job

to his friend's house in Kenosha. Of course, he had to admit that he doesn't have a drivers license but drove all the time anyway.

So, we have a 17YO who is home-schooled, has no drivers license but drives anyway, gets friends to buy him weapons and pretends to be a cop/EMT/firefighter.

Oh, and he also lied about being in nursing school.

I kind of think his mother either couldn't control him or was shielding him because he's mentally ill.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. One count of intentional homicide, one of reckless homicide and one of attempted homicide,

so that is murderous.

[WHITT]

7. Oh

but it would be prejudicial to point out Rittenhouse is a LIAR.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Many times over.

I would be sick to my stomach if I were a juror in that court and discovered that information after the verdict.

[SheilaAnn]

25. And a lousey actor, I hope that sticks with him for eternity..He will always be laughed at. n/t

[FBaggins]

11. Why would that matter?

Prosecutors should feel free to charge him with impersonating an EMT if that’s a crime.

But it isn’t going to help them prove murder.

[Effete Snob]

16. Yep

Rittenhouse was up to no good, but if the point is that every teenager who embellishes and lies is a murderer, then we're going to need some pretty big prisons.

I'm not steeped in the twists and turns of this thing, but it tangential erodes his credibility, if that matters.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. It matters. There is a terrible precedent being set where young white men are allowed

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to be reckless murderers. It doesn't pair well with the incitement to violence that is going on in the right.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Impeaching a defendant's credibility is a court strategy.

[FBaggins]

21. Of course... but there's video.

No problem proving that he thought more of himself than was justified… or even that he had a vigilante mindset. And there should be little trouble convicting him of violating the age rules for carrying a gun.

But you can’t overcome reasonable doubt on a murder charge when the video shows him running away until the person chasing him tries to grab his gun. Add a prosecution witness that tells the jury that the chaser literally threatened his life?

Impeaching his credibility just doesn’t get you anywhere in the face of the video and the prosecution’s own witnesses

[BlackSkimmer]

23. And unfortunately, one of the men he shot also had a gun. In his hand.

These stupid fools think guns make them more manly. I doubt any of them learn from this.

[Claire Oh Nette]

26. There will be no murder conviction

because Rittenhouse has not been charged with murder. He's charged with First-degree reckless homicide, and illegal use of dangerous weapons charges.

He'll be convicted on the illegal gun possession charges--Rittenhouse testified he brought the AR-15 because it was his Right, and the Prosecutor shot that down--he was a child, not an adult. It was illegal to have that weapon, and he knew it. He admitted to asking his pal to make a straw purchase.

His medic/property protector defense is fabricated bullshit. He's a liar, and another home schooled poster boy. He's guilty on all charges, as he inserted himself into a situation then created the very threats to his own life that he feared. Real life turned out not to be just like Call of Duty. The judge is the biggest deterrent to justice in the case.

[FBaggins]

27. It's possible for a prostitute to be raped

You can’t say “he shouldn’t have been there and he shouldn’t have a weapon… therefore he can’t claim self defense”