After reading the same misinformation 30x today... Rittenhouse's mom did NOT

[WarGamer]

Social media users accused Wendy Rittenhouse of driving her son to Kenosha that day, sharing a picture of a woman who is not her as proof. In reality, she was 20 miles away in Illinois, getting a COVID-19 test required for her job and running errands with her oldest daughter, she said.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-kyle-rittenhouse-mother-kenosha-20201110-ikckkevit5epzjydc52szyog34-story.html



Just because you saw something on Twitter doesn't mean it's NOT bullshit.

[Haggard Celine]

1. It's an old rumor.

I first read months ago that she was the one who drove him there. Thanks for setting the record straight. What really happened was bad enough without it being embellished with inaccurate information.

[WarGamer]

3. Happens all the time and not just here...

After 3 shot and 2 deaths I don't think the story needs to be "juiced up"...

She's a single mom with a handful of kids... who worked a lot. I don't think she's the person to blame.

[raising2moredems]

18. Really??

She's a LE officer. Her MINOR child a) got an assault rifle and b) left the STATE. I've put her in the unfit mother category. How many times have we heard "where are the parents" when a non-Caucasian is arrested? DCFS should have removed any other children in the home once he was arrested.

[Bluethroughu]

23. She was in a bar in WI a few months back with her under age

Son having beers and taking pictures with the Proud boys...she's not mother of the year.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/4156448001

[underpants]

2. This is news to me.

Thanks.

[Lunabell]

4. Interesting that you took time out if your life to defend this woman.

Just...interesting.

[WarGamer]

6. I prefer to think of it as defending REALITY

[LiberatedUSA]

7. Are you saying that stating facts makes a person suspicious?

Doesn’t that go against the very core being of a Democratic voter?

[WarGamer]

8. +1000 nt

[Lunabell]

14. Oh no.

There's just soooo much more going on right now. Just interesting that his post is to defend this particular woman. Truth or not, just...interesting.

[TheProle]

15. Equally interesting:

The subtext of your posts seems to be that misinformation that benefits your worldview should be left to proliferate.

[Lunabell]

21. Not at all.

Just that it is interesting to me that this person's post is to defend a woman like that. It's also a truth that George Floyd had drugs in his system, but it has no bearing on his murder. Just interesting that the poster has chosen this particular topic.

Just that.

[Grokenstein]

24. Just interesting enough

for me to tap that little figure with the red "x" next to your user name.

[Lunabell]

26. Ok

Good for you.

[Orrex]

27. Racist assholes cite the drugs in Floyd's system as proof that he deserved to be killed

Assholes also falsely claim that the murderous racist Rittenhouse was driven to the protest by his mother.

Nothing is gained by promoting that falsehood, and refuting it is not a defense of the murderer's mother but rather a call to stop spreading bullshit.

Spreading that bullshit in fact helps to cast doubt on Rittenhouse's obvious guilt, because his asshole supporters then insinuate that the entire case against him is based in falsehood.

What's truly interesting is that you seem to be deliberately missing this fact in order to, what? Scold the OP for calling out bullshit?

To what end?

[stopdiggin]

16. there's still a load of innuendo

in your post(s). Both were certainly a slams, if not an attack. And it does smack of somebody that doesn't have any particular interest in the truth (as long as the 'agenda' is served?). What's 'interesting' - is that casual disregard - expressed so openly.

[Good egg]

19. Misinformation on all sides

I appreciate it when someone points out concrete examples of how misinformation is spread, no matter the reason for spreading it. Thanks, original poster for taking time to post this.

[LizBeth]

5. Good to know, thank you. I do not like lies where ever the come from or if serves me.

[Tribetime]

9. Does anyone know how he got the gun being 17

[WarGamer]

10. The article answers that

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-wisconsin-kyle-rittenhouse-gun-charges-20201109-hsi6h35ywvhgxdtsfrdom5zuau-story.html

From his (now) 19 year old best friend.And yes he's been indicted and charged with crimes.

[Tribetime]

11. Ok thank you👍

I would imagine that friend has some explaining to do

[WarGamer]

12. no problem.

[WarGamer]

13. explaining from a prison cell

He might get a harsher sentence than Rittenhouse.

[MrWiggles]

17. Nice idea.

But RITTENHOUSE murdered those people BEFORE covid 19 was even a thing.
There was NO vaccine back then and NO employer had ANY vaccine mandates.

The White wash of history, continues.

[radical noodle]

20. Rittenhouse murdered them in August 2020

Covid 19 was very much a thing.

Welcome to DU

[Drunken Irishman]

22. No lol this was in August, 2020. COVID absolutely was a thing.

And the poster said nothing about a vaccine but a test and YES tests existed in August.

Nice idea, tho.

[Orrex]

25. I'm baffled by truncated subject lines that

It always puzzles me when the subject line of an OP doesn't appear in the body of the message. Like, where does that truncated subject line come from? And why not either start the message body with the full subject line or use a different subject line instead?


Not to pick on this OP, but when I see subject lines like that, I always wonder what happened.

[Lunabell]

28. I don't care that people are lying about this woman.

She is not an innocent. She raised her son to hate and kill. She is a monster. This is not, in my opinion, the forum to defend her even against lies. She does not deserve one iota of sympathy from people who actually give a damn. She does not deserve to be exonerated in any way.