Vigilantes who drive far from home looking for people to murder are not heroes.

[StrictlyRockers]

Kyle Rittenhouse was not defending his castle. He wasn't defending his own neighborhood. He wasn't defending his own town, or even his own state. He went looking for trouble, and he found it. He wound up murdering two people and injuring a third.

Their line seems to be that he was defending himself from a "terrorist with a skateboard", and he just happened to have an assault rifle with him. So he's a vigilante hero for killing protesters that he just happened to point his gun at and shoot because he got scared!! His victims were not innocent, did you not see the skateboard?!

This is straight bullshit. He's a murderer who should spend the next 50 years of his VERY young life in prison for the horrible mistake he made. Bye, boy. You fucked up.

Kyle's not a hero. He's a murderous asshole who deserves the prison time he's about to get. No excuses. Rule of law. Bye.

Link to tweet

[ProfessorGAC]

1. They.Are.Terrorists!

Crossing state lines, armed to the teeth, provoking trouble with political motivations is terrorism.
Not heroism or patriotism.

[StrictlyRockers]

3. Just saw this quote, and I'm going to remember it and use it.

Trump supporters are saying that - "It's not OK to vandalize stuff in reaction to people getting killed, but it's OK to kill people in reaction to people vandalizing stuff."

[ProfessorGAC]

6. I Like It!

Glad you tossed that in!

[napi21]

2. The absolute worst thing I've heard about Rittenhouse is that his MOTHER drove him there! The

killing was not only done by him, it was mama too! Just as the getaway car driver is guilty of the bank robbery, so is SHE guilty of murder!

[Nevilledog]

4. Who do you think gave him the gun or let him have one?

She's as guilty as him.

[sl8]

5. Where have you heard that?

I've seen the same thing posted at least a dozen times here at DU, but never a response when the poster is asked for a source.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. It's Still Unclear

His statement says he stayed in Kenosha from the night before after volunteering as a lifeguard. How he got there the day before is unexplained.
But, USA today had a pic yesterday of his mom, in fatigues and armed, at a counterprotest in Madison a couple days before.
So, she's obviously pro-violence. It would not be surprising that she chauferred him to & from.

[sl8]

9. Can you provide a link to that picture?

Because we also had a picture of "his mom" (on DU), in fatigues and in Madison, that turned to be bogus. The poster did delete it after it was pointed out that it was false.

On edit:
Regarding her driving him, assuming she did drive him to Kenosha, did she drive him to work, or drive him to the protest?

It would not be surprising to me, either, if she chauffered him to & from, but since I don't know, I avoid stating that she did (or didn't).

If we don't know whether or not she drove him, do you think it's appropriate for people to keep posting that she did.?

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Try This

USA Today, yesterday.
I don't know if the picture of her is there, but it's a fact check piece rebutting that she was in Kenosha.
They have issued no correction about ID'ing her in Madison.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/01/fact-check-photo-doesnt-show-kyle-rittenhouses-armed-mom-kenosha/5682081002/

[sl8]

13. So, that fact check says '"false"

I'm not sure I'm getting your point. They say that that's not a picture of Rittenhouse's mother.

It’s unknown whether Rittenhouse’s mother had any involvement in bringing her son to Kenosha that day — but the image alleging to be mother and son is a fabrication, using a photo from a different place and time.

Our ruling: False
A composite photo purported to be Kyle Rittenhouse's mother, Wendy, is not her. It is an image from a protest in Madison, not from a Kenosha protest. It’s cropped from a larger image of a handful of people with guns standing outside the state capitol two days earlier. We rate the claim FALSE.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. My Error. I Misread

I attached the false to only the location & date of the photo.

[napi21]

16. Here is a link to article. I originally heard it on qan MSNBC news program but I can't find now.

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2049430254331/wendy-rittenhouse-calls-grow-for-kyle-rittenhouses-mother-to-be-arrested-for-driving-son-20-miles-with-his-ar-15

[sl8]

18. Thanks.

Appreciate the response.

Doesn't really say much. "These are the questions some are asking ...",and "Some believe ..." . The whole "article" is a mix of quotes of social media and speculation. One of the tweets listed, the one with the bogus picture of the mom, has since been deleted.

Was there something in particular at that link that you found credible?

[abqtommy]

7. Yup. Charge everybody involved, Mom for complicity and tRUMP for incitement...

[cwydro]

17. I've only seen that here.

I have no idea if she did or not, but I’ve seen no link to it.

An ABC news clip said he worked in Kenosha, lived about 20 miles away, and an adult moron gave him the gun in Kenosha.

[Jeebo]

10. They're not vigilantes, either.

I probably should look up the dictionary definition of the word before posting these comments, but I'm just going with what I've always understood that word to mean. A vigilante is somebody who has some moral or ethical or perhaps even legal justification for his or her extralegal violence. The people he goes after are thugs who deserve what they get. Like in that Charles Bronson movie. That boy, on the other hand, has NO such justification for what he did. He's just a murderer and a thug himself. He's the kind of person true vigilantes go after. He's not at the VIGILANTE end of the vigilante-thug interaction, he's at the THUG end.

-- Ron

[Sedona]

11. Call them what they are...

Brownshirts

[Initech]

15. Yes, this asshole should not be celebrated! He is a murderer, plain and simple.

And he should be treated the way we normally treat murderers. And neither should those assholes from St. Louis be celebrated, nor should that smirking douchebag from Kentucky. These people are violent, attention seeking pieces of shit, and should not be rewarded for their bad behavior.