Police officers stand guard inside of a fenced area that surrounds several government buildings in Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday.Police officers stand guard inside of a fenced area that surrounds several government buildings in Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday.Law enforcement officials in Kenosha, Wis.
"There was nothing to suggest that this person was involved in any criminal behavior," Miskinis told reporters.taken before the shooting in which officers in an armored vehicle can be heard thanking "Have we asked for them to come? Are we asking for them to come in and support things? I'm not," Beth said.
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Why He has a right to carry a gun where there are a lot of police are standing around?!! If the civilians has to protect themselves w gun next to police why we fund the police?
glennbeck What is a 17 year old doing carrying an assault weapon at protests? Can't be legal
Beth said if armed individuals are 'protecting their property, I have no issue with that.' But was it his property he was protecting? In the video I saw, he was in the middle of the street. Wasn't he from out of state?
This police chief was accurate. Every video 100% validates self-defense.
What the fuck do you mean? Sorry, but there is no reason to be running aroud in public with an AR-15. Use your brain.
The automatic weapon might be a clue officer!
Kenosha mayor should step down. If he spits out these lies without waiting for the truth he is no friend to Kenosha.
So he just gave the green light for armed antifa marching peacefully to carry on. Works for me.
As said, if it had been a black man the response would have been much different.
Funny thing, what's considered criminal now days! 🤬😵😭
To be clear, the quote in this headline is in reference to *before* the shooting. I feel like this headline is irresponsible.
glennbeck So now it’s open season on skateboarders glennbeck. Christofascist
Translation-he's a white kid.
Kenosha police say there’s nothing that indicates that this right wing terrorist was involved in criminal activity except the two people he killed and the third one that he shot. He drove a long ways to get involved in a protest that had nothing to do with him and brought a gun.
Wow
Well, he wasn’t black, so....
He was 17 years old brandishing an assault weapon in the street. This is obvious criminal behavior.
Wait! There were reports that people screaming at police that he had just shot someone. Were those reports fake-news? Or did the police ignore them because the reports came from protestors?
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The shooter is a hero.
He had his hands raised and someone in the crowd was screaming 'that dude just shot somebody'
He’s 17 - it’s illegal - why wasn’t he arrested in the first place
This is Trump's America. It's offensive to most people that someone other than the law authorities can Carry a weapon of war in a place of disorder.
People carry guns with no criminal behavior in mind? Really? If profiling has any merit, what does carrying a gun in that situation tell you?
He opened fire on his own country.
Why do people today have such difficulty with the truth? The kid is an idiot. The kid committed no crime. The kid shot those guys in self defense. The kid should face a grand jury. The kid should be no-billed.
SELF DEFENSE!!!!
He had every right to be there. He had every right to carry a gun. The protesters had absolutely no right to assault, chase, or attack him.
American heroes.🇺🇸
Nothing except the crowd shouting “he’s the shooter”. He saw them beforehand and they didn’t even bother to check his permit to carry. Which didn’t exist because he’s underage. They didn’t bother checking his age either. Piss poor policing.
How about videos
huh. 17 with an assault weapon? what do you think he was up to? NO EXCUSES
You might think this kid received a “white glove treatment” from his policeman buddies!
Nobody finds it strange he is wearing latex gloves? Like to cover fingerprints on ammo maybe?
How does logic not also apply to Jacob Blake?
I don’t know all the facts and who does? But I do know that you don’t run headlong into a person, in the open streets that has a firearm and you don’t. Special Forces and aboriginal Comanche Warriors knew better than that
Other than the people screaming 'he shot someone, he's the shooter', the rifle, the fact that he looked 12, and the curfew.
Just to be clear - the idea of a black man possibly having a hidden weapon is a good excuse for a cop to kill or paralyze him, but a white teenager brandishing an AR doesn't concern cops at all. If anyone still doesn't understand privilege, here's example 8,032.
Stupid.... irresponsible...
If nothing else, wasn't there a curfew he was breaking?
Resign ‼️‼️👀👀
This judgement is obviously it was self defence, so ...?
I'm starting to think that Kenosha in flames is not such a bad idea.
86 this chief !!!
glennbeck
He might be using the defense that he is developmental disabled or something like that. Watch.
He was defending himself!
“Nothing to suggest that this person was involved in any criminal behavior”? He was a minor carrying a gun and out past curfew. That’s 2 crimes, and that’s before he killed 2 people.
Police chief is right. This kid was misguided but he was not a murder or a white supremacist like the media has claimed
There hardly ever is until afterwards
Other than he just killed 2 people and injured one.
akeleven Out after curfew for one. Carrying a weapon underage for another. But I guess white is cure all for that.
Wow... this is happening alongside the shooting of a black guy 7 times in the back, who is now paralyzed & handcuffed to a hospital bed The USA is morally bankrupt. It's done - deserves collapse. The population doesn't seem interested in truth or good nor does it deserve them.
Can someone answer why this killer decided to put on latex gloves throughout the course of the night? He was intent on executing citizens in addition to illegally carrying a firearm. But let’s spin the narrative that this killer is a hero.
Except for the long gun he was carrying?
'They were there to hurt people,' Wisconsin state Rep. David Bowen says of the vigilante crew in Kenosha. via HuffPostPol
yeah. The dozen people screaming at the cops that the kid just killed someone as he walks up to them with a AR-15 certainly didn't suggest anything action should be taken. I mean, the kid was white, after all
gut these fish Send a message to repressive and elitists leaders by charging Trump with CrimesAgainstHumanity
glennbeck
glennbeck Good. Police are being reasonable. Aftifa's backup from portland are being arrested. Things are looking up.
He out past curfew !
This is the most clear cut self defense case that you will ever see. Thank God that people were able to record everything that happened or the he would probably be headed for life in prison just based on narrative-driven, lying accounts of 'witnesses'
His action was absolutely right. We need more people like Kyle is 👍 We all hope that Kyle will be free.
If the same guys skin colour was black he would have been dead by now. While someone accused if having a knife is shot 7 times while someone openly carrying AR and killing people was given water and let go. RACISM IS IN THE DNA OF AMERICA.
This 17yr old did the world a favor ONE WAS A Pedophile the other a felon!
Having actually viewed all the primary source evidence myself; it’s so surreal to see all the ignorant democrats commenting on this thread. Wait and see what happens at trial, where facts are considered as opposed to tweets and NPR headlines.
Self-defense
glennbeck That's cuz he didnt break any laws and was supplying medical help to those injured. The only reason anyone got shot is because the mob chased him and shot at him first
Aside from the audio?
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
'There was nothing to suggest that this person was involved in any criminal behavior,' Miskinis told reporters. Sometimes, I fucking hate my race!
WTF?! 🤬🤬🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ I swear... just yeet the whole city into the sun.
glennbeck If a mob attacks you, you have the right to defend yourself! Is carrying a weapon in public a crime in Wisconsin? I never saw a video of him pointing it until he was chased and then only when he was threatened and assaulted!
Apart from actually shooting people, you mean. Wtaf.
What?!
If he was there to paint over graffiti all he needed was a brush n paint. Jimmy Carter doesn't show up at Habitat for Humanity projects with a loaded AR and say, 'let's build some community.' KyleRittenhouse kenosha JacobBlake blacklivesmatter
poor npr.
Based on the videos available it looks like self defense in the shootings. Kyle is obviously being attacked. Maybe he shouldn’t have put himself in that situation but if he doesn’t deserve to be charged with murder.
Yet an unarmed black man walking to his car appeared to be involved in criminal behavior? So much they had to shoot him SEVEN TIMES!! IN THE BACK!? 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
we-saw-the-black-militia-in-georgia-about-200-of-them-ALL-carrying-guns-and-i-saw-no-crime-committed-by-them-either.=carrying-a-gun-is-not-a-crime-
Apparently in Wisconsin when you’re underage walking on the streets with an exposed and loaded AR-15 is an everyday situation, normal and fully legal.
glennbeck He was attacked by the mob. He was defending himself. Earlier in the night he was helping protesters.
Would the Chief day the same thing if Rittenhouse were black?
n_beiner BS
Unbelievable
Corrupt dog shit. This is insulting
White nationalists being white nationalists
The armored car doesn’t belong to the police? That’s a terrifying thought; just who has these things and why?
Because he was white.....
Maga knee pads
I kinda think think there needs to be an investigation into this police chief...
KenoshaPolice How safe does anyone feel in Wisconsin? Seriously if Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t look suspicious what would - oh right an unarmed black man with his family in the car? Sad
glennbeck Because reality. Narrative was so far off at first. Reality of the situation requires the greatest amount of information and the balance of facts. Perspective, empathy.
glennbeck Not illegal to carry Not illegal to defend your life So...
BS nothing to suggest he was involved in any criminal activity, however, if he were Black or brown walking by with that gun he would’ve been shot on the spot, but being white makes the deadly difference?
They heard gun fire, then this guy come walking down the street with a long gun, with people pointing at him saying this guy just shot someone. NOTHING TO SUGGEST!
So a white man walking down the street, after curfew, carrying a rifle with his hands up is not a threat, but an unarmed black man running away from the police is a threat
Hmmm...black guy walks into protest with a military grade weapon and the SWAT team would be on scene in 10 seconds. White kid with testosterone poisoning? C’mon in!!!
Karma sent a wife beater and a sexual deviant to meet their makers....thin the herd
You mean besides all the people shouting “he just shot people” while pointing to him?
Fuck Kenosha
Really? What would your officers have done if Rittenhouse had been a black man with an AR-15 walking down the street Chief?
Yet he was confessing to killin somebody. They ignored that.. broke him off some water and thanked him...sent him on his way.
Resign now-worthless police chief
That’s why no one needs to hear from the Kenosha police chief. Get somebody that matters and can take charge to talk.
17-year-old carrying an AR-15 style rifle (illegal) after police curfew (illegal)? And immediately after killing people (highly illegal), raising his hands as if in surrender, still carrying the weapon, standing in the headlights of a police vehicle. Seems suggestive to me.
White dude that just murdered 2 people didn't look like a threat, but a Black dude getting in his car did? 🤔
glennbeck Carrying a weapon in public is often legal. Concealed carry tho often requires a license. In AZ you can do either without a license, but then, this is 'out West' -- with rattlesnakes, havalenas, mountain lions, & coyotes -- even in residential areas.
The two different pictures I saw he was being attacked and feared for his life and was protecting himself.
He wasn’t old enough to carry a gun at age 17 ! On the other hand, he is white and apparently color counts in Kenosha.
Bet that police chief sits in a church pew every Sunday.
This is the exact problem.
Houston,,,we got a problem.
Translation: He WHITE. 🤨
You have got to be kidding?!?!?! We have a BIG PROBLEM!
People were screaming saying he shot and killed and they ignored them. This is not a good or decent man.
This guy is a hero. There should be a parade for him.
Wasn’t he out after curfew? I mean that is why the protesters were ‘rioters’ correct?
FIRE THAT MOTHERFUCKER
glennbeck Wonder what the pucker factor is in the media right now... Kyle Rittenhouse is the next Sandman. I called it... ScottAdamsSays dbongino
Yea Chief - that quote just came back to bite you in the ass
Skateboard vs AR15
Barney Fife needs to step down
What
glennbeck Looting and burning businesses is criminal as well but if law isn't enforced and citizens cannot count on law enforcement to uphold the laws and protect them then they will have to protect themselves or hire someone too. It's life and death now. BLM vs the citizens. Who wins?
Before he shot anybody he was retreating with people coming after him.
Do eye witnesses not count?
Meanwhile, Jacob Blake, who is not credibly accused of committing any serious crime, is shackled to his hospital bed.
And there it is, why I won’t r read or accept anything coming out of kenosha’s racist criminal police chief or their raciest criminal police union
2 different law enforcement systems - 17 year old white kid with AR-15...no problem. Wave him past. - 17 year old black kid carrying an AR-15.....he’d be f*cking dead.
'to appear to be armed vigilantes' And exactly how does that appear? Is it because they were white NPR? Is that why you wrote the story that way? There is nothing illegal about a group of men open carrying weapons in Wisconsin. This was a child though he looked 18 to me.
“He is also charged with misdemeanor possession of a dangerous weapon below the legal age of 18” I really can’t believe that carrying a weapon like this ILLEGALLY it’s only a misdemeanor. I guess we can thank the NRA for that... hope they go broke real soon...
The police chief of the KenoshaPolice just provided an example of the SystemicRacism where he tries to provide an excuse for not even stopping a person walking with an AR-15 because he was white. If he were Black, not only would they stop him, they’d be out with guns drawn.
Underage with an assault rifle and from another state. Yep. Nothing wrong with that!
none of those victims were afforded extra time to defend themselves, why should he?!
Is Trump now paying for this kids defense?
The police chief? Something seriously wrong there.
He was armed an assault rife, after curfew, in the middle of a shooting scene, arms raised and followed by people shouting he was the shooter. Whatever.
So, how is that open carry law working out for you, Wisconsin Police?
KenoshaPolice and Kenosha_Sheriff are really incompetent. That County may be better off without law enforcement if those agencies are the option.
So he saw nothing wrong with a kid roaming through a crowd with an AR15 weapon. What could possibly go wrong with that picture? Oh, I know!
people who follow NPR will naturally not like/believe/accept what any cop says because NPR has trained them to hate the police. Thanks, NPR. Keep up the division and liberal bias.
Kenosha's police chief, translated: 'He was white. Therefore there was no reason to police him.'
It’s why DavidBeth is part of problem. Officers handing out water to thugs roaming streets w/ ar15 days after shooting Jacob Blake b/c of an imaginary weapon shows Police don’t believe black lives matter. If BlueLivesMatter, then BlackLivesMatter, too End police Immunity
It was past curfew. The same thing you arrested others for.
Reading this I suddenly got the urge for a Clockwork Orange intervention: strap police chief in his chair, pin his eyelids open, reroll that tape; THEN ask what's his take? Smh, wtf? Blind? Or selective vision? Selective interpretation? 2 outta 3?
The little squirt wasn't protecting his property. He was out there looking for justification to kill.
'who was seen carrying an AR-15-style rifle....' and so what? I guess you libs made that a crime.
KenoshaPolice Chief is poster boy for poor policing. Let's see, shots fired, people on ground, young man with rifle retreats towards police. They didn't treat Rittenhouse like part of crowd to control. Treated him as comrade. Rittenhouse has been radicalized, how about Police?
He was a minor carrying an assault weapon! What the hell?!?! Trumpchoas TrumpZombieArmy
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You know Barney Fife has to carry his one bullet in his pocket
So if the kid was non-white, same answer?
So.... the people telling the cops he's the shooter didn't suggest that KillerKyle was involved in crimminal behavior? What an incompetent idiot. Where is the mugshot? I don't even believe yall racists arrested him
The Kenosha police chief has a serious credibility problem
Yet if they saw a black 17 year old with a gun like this .. he'd be dead with about 40 -50 bullets in body. The entitlement is the cops saw his whiteness and let him pass. Even though HE was violating the same curfew. The cops are letting white supremacists do their dirty work.
Even though it was illegal for a 17 year old to be carrying an AR-15?
Meanwhile *unarmed* Black men are shot and *unarmed* BLM protestors along with *unarmed* news crews are beaten gassed and shot with 'less lethal' rounds. Because White male conservatives have more right to exercise their 2A than liberals exercising their 1A, or Blacks to live.
And wearing rubber gloves?
I want to live in a country where black people’s lives are as valued as Americans value their AR-15s.
He crossed state lines carrying an unlawful gun as a minor. Felony.
Look up Richard McGinnis is one of the videographer on the ground that will be one of the witnesses, from when he received the phone call being asked for help to the mayhem (someone was already shot upon arrival). When things don’t add up I will do my own research.
Defund NPR!
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Extradition from Illinois? He was arrested in Wisconsin! Did they let him go?!!!!
The whole area was full of armed rioters and non-non-violent protesters in military gear, body armor, and combat weapons. This dumbass kid was just another armed jackass. He shouldnt have been there, rioters shouldn't have been there. Media driven hate yeilds these results.
Good. Not everyone is insane.
Wait are you guys are saying that you wanted to arrest this kid for carrying a rifle when there are people lightning houses and cars on fire and beating up elderly people? He’s a hero. You liberals are slow.
Rosenbaum, Huber and Grosskreutz are national heroes. They took down a domestic terrorist and prevented an even worse situation.
Stop NPR. You lean so left you are broken.
The chief is correct if you look at the available evidence objectively.
are you f u c k ing kidding me
As he walked away from a shooting with a gun
Except for all the onlookers saying he shot people?
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He’s changing lawyers, I believe. That’s why the judge postponed it. But good thing that police chief isn’t the prosecutor because he is straight up lying.
So been unarmed & turning your back while black makes you public enemy number one? How do these people become police chiefs & lead communities?
He's white so murder is ok
Is this a joke? If he was a black/brown individual, the headlines would be different. They would have automatically flipped the script. Toxicity of double standards.
glennbeck It's not criminal behavior during a riot . Its defense
This kids gonna walk free. Mark my words.
Well except for the fact he looked like a 17 year old with a firearm he couldn't legally possess without adult supervision in WI.
glennbeck Get the facts. Do real journalism before reporting. Who, What, Where and Why.
If schools were in person, Kyle would of murdered his classmates. He's a piece of shit, just like his mother.
glennbeck
But don’t try walking back to your car. THAT’S suspect.
glennbeck One side had AR's the other side had pistols, and somehow the left is mad that the first responder had a weapon and knew how to use it. 🤡🌎
They didn't bother to find out which property these people were protecting. This is incompetent police work.
This shit show is well beyond failure. TrumpFailed
You mean other than the AR-15 strapped to his chest?
You mean the fact that several people were screaming he just killed somebody...? That wasn't enough to think he 'did anything wrong'
There is a video of him holding an AR-15 saying he is prepared to not theoretically but literally shoot someone. The dude shooting the video even clarified with him asking if he was actually prepared to use his weapon. AbolishThePolice
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glennbeck Excellent
glennbeck
'Protesters' 😂
Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't involved in any criminal behavior after the shootings either. Self defense is not a crime.
Holding the loaded weapon isn't suggestive but being Black walking down the street definitely is. Thanks for clarifying. Fucking fire this guy
Are fucking kidding me!!!
Synergy3k Except the people shouting that he’d just shot people.
He didn’t see anything to suggest Kyle Rittenhaus was involved in criminal activity...but he hasn’t watched the video of Jacob Blake being shot in the back to see if he was involved in activity that would warrant such an outcome This is blatantly racist. He must be fired!
Protesters near the police vehicles were literally yelling that he just shot people but I guess that isn't enough 'suggestion'.
It's gonna require JLB_USMC to explain that mindset.
We the public are getting an up close and personal look at the ugliness of racism, vote accordingly.
IKantEvenToday Defund NPR
Because walking down the street carrying an AK during a political and social protest is normal, right?
We are always given the benefit of the doubt. Black people are not. This is why the anger is boiling over. THIS is why people are hitting the streets.
Wasn't the young man involved in criminal behavior, by simply carrying it in the first place? He is 17.
sorry what’s the legal age to open carry in Wisconsin? It’s not 17. why didn’t the police ask this very youthful person to produce ID?
Unacceptable
RatnerLynn
glennbeck Play the videos self defense!!!!
dmrider There's video of half a dozen rifle shots being fired less than fifty feet away from dozens of police and then people telling the cops this guy shot someone. Maybe all the police need eye and ear tests?
glennbeck And defended himself against a man WITH A GUN TheJusticeDept DefundNPR they are stoking unrest with OUR TAX DOLLARS
I would not want to be in Kenosha the day this guy gets acquitted. They think it's bad now, just wait till he gets off having killed two people and nearly killing a third.
Imagine if he was black....
glennbeck Wasn’t a AR15 style. It was an AR15. AR15 skateboard
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