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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,419 posts)
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 05:22 PM Aug 2023

Kyle Rittenhouse complains that lawsuits make it 'harder for me to move on with my life'



Kyle Rittenhouse is being sued by the estate of the man he killed, complains that lawsuits make it 'harder for me to move on with my life'


The estate of Joseph Rosenbaum filed a lawsuit on August 25 against Rittenhouse, along with several police officers and personnel whom the suit accuses of negligence, wrongful death, and 13 other claims, Texas Scorecard first reported.

Rosenbaum, who was 36 years old and struggling with mental health issues, encountered Rittenhouse on August 25, 2020, amid civil unrest following a police shooting of Jacob Blake. He chased Rittenhouse, who ultimately shot Rosenbaum four times, killing him.

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Prior to this latest lawsuit, Huber's father and Grosskreutz each filed civil suits against Rittenhouse, according to Newsweek.

"If they take me down, they will take the rest of us down with them," Rittenhouse, who has become a right-wing hero for gun rights, said at the time, per Newsweek.

"These lawsuits are making it harder and harder for me to move on with my life," Rittenhouse told Texas Scorecard. "It is extremely difficult to go outside without fear of being harassed or assaulted because of the lies spread in these lawsuits. No one should have to continue to defend the fact that they acted in self defense."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/kyle-rittenhouse-is-being-sued-by-the-estate-of-the-man-he-killed-complains-that-lawsuits-make-it-harder-for-me-to-move-on-with-my-life/ar-AA1fQXFZ
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Kyle Rittenhouse complains that lawsuits make it 'harder for me to move on with my life' (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 OP
You know what else makes it hard to move on with life? usedtobedemgurl Aug 2023 #1
THIS! 👍 TheBlackAdder Aug 2023 #3
10000% nt Quixote1818 Aug 2023 #9
+++++++++ emulatorloo Aug 2023 #14
+! struggle4progress Aug 2023 #16
Putrid little shit. Aristus Aug 2023 #24
Okay, you definitely win this thread with 'cowardly, festering fucknozzle!' Brilliant! n/t PatrickforB Aug 2023 #27
Next, I hope to win with "Rittenhouse Found Liable For Killings. Aristus Aug 2023 #29
At this point, to him, "garnish" is the bit of parsley on his plate. Harker Aug 2023 #34
THIS malaise Aug 2023 #35
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Aug 2023 #36
Love it! My daughter loves The Bard and gave me this Shakespeare Insult Generator. Ziggysmom Aug 2023 #64
hilarious BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 #67
Hey Kyle, try being dead. Big obstacle to moving on in life. LakeArenal Aug 2023 #28
+1 sueh Aug 2023 #38
+1 trillion Takket Aug 2023 #46
+1000 SouthernDem4ever Aug 2023 #55
+1000! Rhiannon12866 Aug 2023 #62
Oh, the poor murderous baby. PittBlue Aug 2023 #2
And the shithead Qultist judge that didn't put his sorry ass in jail, too! Initech Aug 2023 #12
Absolutely! PittBlue Aug 2023 #13
I'm sure the 2 people he killed are having a hard time moving forward with their lives also. patphil Aug 2023 #4
One night of FA Mr.Bill Aug 2023 #5
Absolutely no sympathy IzzaNuDay Aug 2023 #6
How am I to weigh my total disdain for Rittenhouse when my same for George Zimmerman hlthe2b Aug 2023 #7
Shades of his hero's complaints ... somebody else's fault. sinkingfeeling Aug 2023 #8
Yeah, like the people he killed? Ocelot II Aug 2023 #10
He's a murderer. This piece of human shit should live with that fact for the rest of his... NNadir Aug 2023 #11
Playing victim is a right wing trait. Emile Aug 2023 #15
Fuck you, Kyle n/t Alpeduez21 Aug 2023 #17
He Could Have Moved On With His Life... ProfessorGAC Aug 2023 #18
Good to hear this. Baitball Blogger Aug 2023 #19
Oh I'm sorry... MURDERER. budkin Aug 2023 #20
Wah, wah, wah. 3catwoman3 Aug 2023 #21
May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve. niyad Aug 2023 #22
I'm loving the fact that nearly everyone you have said this about Aristus Aug 2023 #25
I have a little list. . . niyad Aug 2023 #63
Boo Hoo LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2023 #23
Boo hoo claudette Aug 2023 #26
The trigger-happy killer has yet to realized he'll never be able to move on... brush Aug 2023 #30
I think George Zimmerman had the same complaint. AndyS Aug 2023 #31
George Zimmerman . . . AverageOldGuy Aug 2023 #51
Yeah, well. Boo fucking hoo. (nt) Paladin Aug 2023 #32
Boohoo Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2023 #33
No pity for murderous punks. Talitha Aug 2023 #37
Also known as oswaldactedalone Aug 2023 #39
The fever dream... odins folly Aug 2023 #40
2 people won't move on with their lives at all Marthe48 Aug 2023 #41
Rosenbaum is a five time child rapist pinkstarburst Aug 2023 #42
False equivalence AverageOldGuy Aug 2023 #53
"cross state lines" Sympthsical Aug 2023 #54
Agreed WiVoter Aug 2023 #57
2 of the 4 things you listed are untrue. Captain Stern Aug 2023 #69
Do a google search then pinkstarburst Aug 2023 #71
May be true, but irrelevant Retrograde Aug 2023 #68
I agree about the looking for trouble part pinkstarburst Aug 2023 #72
Try not going somewhere where your presence was not requested nor needed and committing LoisB Aug 2023 #43
fluff off kyle . AllaN01Bear Aug 2023 #44
He is a whiny child just like his hero. TNNurse Aug 2023 #45
Rittenhouse is in the Find Out stage of his life gristy Aug 2023 #47
Kill people and find out. milestogo Aug 2023 #49
Lies. Like your lie about being asked to guard a used car lot? keithbvadu2 Aug 2023 #48
"These lawsuits are making it harder and harder for me to move on with my life," AverageOldGuy Aug 2023 #50
SO much sympathy.... Bettie Aug 2023 #52
Awwww, gee whiz. catbyte Aug 2023 #56
Go have a steaming mug of... Aviation Pro Aug 2023 #58
You want to move on, Little Kyley? Have mommy drive you. keithbvadu2 Aug 2023 #59
Excellent ! kimbutgar Aug 2023 #60
Thanks for the great comments. I agree with every one housecat Aug 2023 #61
Too Late Smart.... You chose...Poorly. Your life will be full of lawyers now. IA8IT Aug 2023 #65
He means people aren't sending him money like they used to send. Solly Mack Aug 2023 #66
Guess you'll have to get a job like everyone else, Mr. R. Torchlight Aug 2023 #70

Aristus

(71,453 posts)
24. Putrid little shit.
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:05 PM
Aug 2023

I hope this gums up the rest of his worthless life. This is what you wanted, you cowardly, festering fucknozzle. If you're not going to spend the rest of your life in prison, I hope you spend the rest of your life in civil court.

PatrickforB

(15,316 posts)
27. Okay, you definitely win this thread with 'cowardly, festering fucknozzle!' Brilliant! n/t
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:12 PM
Aug 2023

Aristus

(71,453 posts)
29. Next, I hope to win with "Rittenhouse Found Liable For Killings.
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:15 PM
Aug 2023

Damages Awarded Are Expected To Reach Into The Tens Of Millions."

Let us all focus our collective energy on that outcome.

Harker

(17,218 posts)
34. At this point, to him, "garnish" is the bit of parsley on his plate.
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:34 PM
Aug 2023

I'd like to see his vocabulary expanded.

Response to Aristus (Reply #24)

Ziggysmom

(3,990 posts)
64. Love it! My daughter loves The Bard and gave me this Shakespeare Insult Generator.
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 08:28 PM
Aug 2023

You combine one word from each of the three text columns below, and prefix with a “Thou”.

One of my fav lines from Shakespeare is, “You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!”
Henry IV Part 2 (Act 2, Scene 1).


patphil

(8,602 posts)
4. I'm sure the 2 people he killed are having a hard time moving forward with their lives also.
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 05:26 PM
Aug 2023

No movement in a coffin.
I can't find even the smallest shred of sympathy for this guy. He chose his path, now he has to walk it.

IzzaNuDay

(1,205 posts)
6. Absolutely no sympathy
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 05:29 PM
Aug 2023

He can’t move on with his life? What about the families mourning the deaths of the people he killed? They can’t move on either.

Pound sand, Kyle!

hlthe2b

(112,443 posts)
7. How am I to weigh my total disdain for Rittenhouse when my same for George Zimmerman
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 05:29 PM
Aug 2023

has not diminished one bit? May karma "complete" them both.

Ocelot II

(128,640 posts)
10. Yeah, like the people he killed?
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 05:32 PM
Aug 2023

It's been even harder for them to move on with their lives, so let me play a little tune of sympathy for you, Kyle:

NNadir

(37,050 posts)
11. He's a murderer. This piece of human shit should live with that fact for the rest of his...
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 05:34 PM
Aug 2023

...worthless criminal life.

ProfessorGAC

(75,561 posts)
18. He Could Have Moved On With His Life...
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 05:47 PM
Aug 2023

...by keeping his dumb ass in Antioch.
He went looking for trouble. He went armed! He's now experiencing the consequences of those decisions.
Good!

Aristus

(71,453 posts)
25. I'm loving the fact that nearly everyone you have said this about
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:07 PM
Aug 2023

has gotten, or is in the process of getting, everything they deserve.

May your winning streak continue unabated...

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
30. The trigger-happy killer has yet to realized he'll never be able to move on...
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:18 PM
Aug 2023

and live a normal life as he's a killer known not just nationwide, but worldwide.

Hope all of the suits include whoever it was who provided a teenager with a lethal AR-15...a youngster with an undeveloped, irresponsible mind, which resulted in the the shooter using both of the aforementioned weapons to kill two people and gravely injury another.

If they hadn't done what they did the boy would not have been on the scene with a lethal weapon.

The young winger hero now has been inculcated by the hard right into believing the circumstances he's in are other peoples' fault as he was just defending himself.

He couldn't be more wrong as he's only walking around free because he was tried in a deep red area. He should be in prison.

He, like George Zimmerman. is a persona non grata in most cirles because he's a killer.

AndyS

(14,559 posts)
31. I think George Zimmerman had the same complaint.
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:25 PM
Aug 2023

Then he sold the gun that killed Travon Martin for 10x what it's worth so it kinda makes my heart blead yellow water . . .

AverageOldGuy

(3,243 posts)
51. George Zimmerman . . .
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 07:15 PM
Aug 2023

. . . now there's a name i have not heard for quite a while. Not that I missed hearing about him . . .

odins folly

(510 posts)
40. The fever dream...
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:50 PM
Aug 2023

I will be revered as a hero
I will be celebrated
I will go on to greatness
Everyone will love me
I am a hero

Ask all the folks who actually went to a war, and came back, not whole....

I hope, and as a military veteran I do not say this lightly, this little fuck finds himself alone in a shitty trailer with a bullet and a bottle.

I used to watch Dennis Miller before he became a pariah, and he had a bit abot child molesters, where he encouraged them to take one for the team and step into the pitch.

I feel the same way about this fuck.

pinkstarburst

(1,850 posts)
42. Rosenbaum is a five time child rapist
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:51 PM
Aug 2023

who was out at the riots starting fires and attacking people and had just been released from the hospital on a mental health hold after trying to kill himself. Long arrest and prison record.

The second person who died (the one with the skateboard) also had a history of domestic violence including for attempted strangling of a family member, for which he served prison time.

The paramedic who was shot and wounded had a police record for domestic violence too.

I have no sympathy for Rosenbaum or for Rittenhouse. Rosenbaum was a terrible human being. Rittenhouse is a terrible human being. Not to be unkind, but the people who stayed at the "protest" after curfew when it had long past turned into a riot and everyone was carrying assault rifles was looking for trouble of some kind. You don't go to a protest with an assault rifle unless you are looking for trouble. Both the third person shot and Rittenhouse brought guns while saying they were there to work as "medics." Four stupid, crazy people found each other that night and two died. Disgusting and stupid.

Too many guns.

AverageOldGuy

(3,243 posts)
53. False equivalence
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 07:25 PM
Aug 2023

So -- the people Rittenhouse killed and wounded may not be perfect -- all I have to go on is your claims -- that does not give Rittenhouse the right to (1) illegally purchase a weapon, (2) cross state lines with an illegally purchased weapon, (3) play cop, and (4) play judge, jury, and executioner.

By the way, you say: "The paramedic who was shot and wounded had a police record for domestic violence too." I'm a paramedic in Virginia. In Virginia, no one with a record of domestic violence could become an EMT, Paramedic, or other EMS position. I'm suspicious of your claim.

WiVoter

(1,534 posts)
57. Agreed
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 07:43 PM
Aug 2023

The background of a person does not give anyone a right to do what rittenhouse did. Thank you AverageOldGuy.

Captain Stern

(2,244 posts)
69. 2 of the 4 things you listed are untrue.
Mon Aug 28, 2023, 07:15 AM
Aug 2023

He didn't illegally purchase a weapon.....a friend of his purchased it. Rittenhouse got off of a misdemeanor possession charge on a technicality in the law that allowed minors to possess long guns.

He didn't cross state lines with the weapon. The friend was storing the weapon for him in Kenosha

pinkstarburst

(1,850 posts)
71. Do a google search then
Mon Aug 28, 2023, 08:25 AM
Aug 2023

And my point is, particularly with Rosenbaum, that neither he or Rittenhouse were innocents in what happened that night. Of course Rittenhouse went there looking for trouble. So did Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum was a five time child rapist who had spent years in prison. He also was homeless, and the day of the riots, had just been released from the hospital on a psych hold after trying to kill himself. After he was released from the hospital, the first place he went was to the riot, where he was caught on camera attacking people, shouting racial slurs and trying to start fires all night until he finally encountered Rittenhouse and attacked him.

Rittenhouse certainly went there looking for trouble. But Rosenbaum did too.

Retrograde

(11,361 posts)
68. May be true, but irrelevant
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 10:50 PM
Aug 2023

Say the three were guilty of what you accuse them of. That is still not an excuse for someone who is not a police officer (and probably not them, either) to shoot and kill them. And how would Rittenhouse have known about their pasts anyway? Rittenhouse came looking for trouble, and found it.

pinkstarburst

(1,850 posts)
72. I agree about the looking for trouble part
Mon Aug 28, 2023, 08:31 AM
Aug 2023

And no one is making excuses for Rittenhouse's actions.

But I think the context is important because some people make Rosenbaum out to be this choir boy. He wasn't. He was a five time child rapist. Rosenbaum had just been released hours before the riot started on a psych hold for trying to kill himself, and was seen attacking other people, and trying to start fires before he finally attacked Rittenhouse and was shot.



LoisB

(12,163 posts)
43. Try not going somewhere where your presence was not requested nor needed and committing
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 06:53 PM
Aug 2023

murder. Chances are you could/would have lived a normal life.

milestogo

(22,345 posts)
49. Kill people and find out.
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 07:13 PM
Aug 2023

He doesn't deserve his freedom. And he deserves a shrunken life with nothing good.

AverageOldGuy

(3,243 posts)
50. "These lawsuits are making it harder and harder for me to move on with my life,"
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 07:14 PM
Aug 2023

Well, Kyle, ol' boy, I gotta tell you, I'm just brokenhearted at your situation. Yep, brokenhearted.

Bettie

(19,186 posts)
52. SO much sympathy....
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 07:18 PM
Aug 2023

not for Kyle, I hope the rest of his life is an ongoing nightmare, I hope he never sees another happy moment for the rest of his miserable existence. He has no regrets for what he did, he's just upset that people see who and what he actually is.

But sympathy for his victims and their families. Yes.

catbyte

(38,466 posts)
56. Awwww, gee whiz.
Sun Aug 27, 2023, 07:42 PM
Aug 2023


Shit happens when you murder two people in cold blood, get away with it, then try to earn money off of it. Get fucked. Pardon my French.

Torchlight

(6,239 posts)
70. Guess you'll have to get a job like everyone else, Mr. R.
Mon Aug 28, 2023, 08:20 AM
Aug 2023

Thoughts and prayers go out to him for his failure to cash in on and profit from killing people. I can certainly understand why he wants people to concentrate on his victims rather than himself.

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