Has anyone figured out why Rittenhouse kid was wearing blue sterile gloves? nt

[LiberalFighter]

[underpants]

1. So he didn't leave prints

when he raided a bakery.

[Aristus]

2. They looked more like fairly standard non-sterile clinical exam gloves.

Sterile procedure gloves are usually un-dyed or buff-colored.

[RockRaven]

11. Yup. Those blue gloves are almost universally non-sterile nitrile gloves.

Used in medical exam situations, first aid situations, as PPE, and also sold at hardware stores and construction suppliers for any time where a home owner or tradesperson does not want to come into contact with many paints/stains/adhesives (though not resistant to all solvents).

As noted by others, he was either signalling other right wing authoritarian shitheads by some sign known to themselves, or cosplaying as someone who would normally be wearing such things like EMS.

[Triloon]

3. he was wearing them in an earlier photo

from the same day, when he was scrubbing graffiti of a wall. With rifle hanging around neck.

[Vadem]

4. He was wearing blue gloves to tell the cops that he supported

them, i.e., the blue line! That has been reported in various
articles I have read. True or not, I don't know.

[Celerity]

5. multiple reports said is was part of a LARP as a cosplay 'street medic'

[cayugafalls]

6. This makes sense. He is on video saying he has a medic bag, the bag seen in the clips.

Plus he is a kid.

Who knows what was going through his mind.

[Midnight Writer]

9. I saw someone claim he had helped someone who was hurt that night, before he started killing.

He had apparently been there for hours. I also saw pictures of him scrubbing graffiti.

Balance that with a video of him throwing fists on a girl, sucker punching her from behind, no less. I don't think that was the same day, though he is wearing the same crocs.

Like you say, who knows what was going through his mind?

[Celerity]

12. Rittenhouse was born January 3rd, 2003. He is exactly 2 months to the day too young to have

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even voted for Trump this time around, let alone 2016. He was not even yet a teenager yet when Trump took that fateful downward escalator ride in Trump Tower on June 16th, 2015. He is a new, pure distillation of Trumpian times and Trumpian fascistic agitprop. It is already an assembly-line of terror-programming, and will only get worse, whether Trump is tossed out on his arse on January 20th, 2021 or not.

[Frasier Balzov]

18. You accidentally dragged Harry Truman into this.

[Celerity]

19. lol, fixed, eeek

thanks for the heads-up

[tblue37]

7. He was also cosplaying as a medic. He carried a medical kit, as well. He fancied himself a

hero and a healer.

[xmas74]

8. His might be the wannabe medic angle

The III%ers around here supposedly wear them so if stuff goes down they can ditch them and they won't show positive if tested for GSR.

I'm not joking. Someone made a half joke about wanting to shoot his ex on a local page and several of the local III%ers jumped in and reminded him to get "blue or purple" med grade gloves so if he's tested for GSR it will show negative.

They're pretty brazen in public nowadays.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Then cops should have known the kid was up to no good.

[xmas74]

13. They knew.

Militia members reported the KPD was corralling the protesters towards them.

[peggysue2]

14. I thought it was a signal

To the cops that he and his ilk were on the side of the police. Regardless.

The 'citizen militia' in all it's questionable legitimacy.

[LuckyCharms]

20. +1

[brush]

16. No gun powder residue and hands/arms.

[WhiteTara]

17. someone suggested to eliminate

powder burns.

[TheBlackAdder]

21. Perhaps planning to attend the Fascist Circle Jerk and Prostate Exam Party later in the evening?

[Crunchy Frog]

22. You gotta be sanitary when you're out killing people.