Fox goes on offense for Rittenhouse

Accused Kenosha shooter's lawyer claims self-defense amid new video

A 17-year-old charged in two shooting deaths amid a chaotic demonstration in Kenosha, Wis., earlier this week feared for his life after being attacked by rioters who chased and beat him, his attorney said Friday.

In a lengthy statement, the lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse, John Pierce, said prosecutors rushed to judgment in charging his client to appease "divisive" and "destructive" forces without analyzing Tuesday's events.

"This was not a serious investigation," Pierce said. 

"Rather, after learning Kyle may have had conservative political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens."

Details on the Rittenhouse shootings

Breaking Down The Videos Of The Two Shooting Incidents In Kenosha — Self-Defense?

Great detail.

Does look like self-defense.

The post does not address the question whether it was illegal in Wisconsin for a 17 year old to go armed.

The people KR shot are so far of unidentified race, I think.

Would that be so if they were black?

Tucker Carlson attacked for un-PC Crimespeak

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“Kenosha has devolved into anarchy because the authorities in charge of the city abandoned it. 

People in charge in Wisconsin from the governor on down refused to enforce the law,” Carlson said during Wednesday's program. 

“They stood back and watched Kenosha burn.”

The Left's objection, however, came when the host asked, “How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?”

Carlson was referring to Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man arrested and charged with murder for allegedly shooting two Antifa rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after being attacked (my colleagues at RedState evaluate whether the incident was self-defense). 

According to police, he traveled approximately 20 miles from his home in Antioch, Ill., to join others in 'protecting' Kenosha.

“So what does that amount to? We’re unsure,” Carlson said. 

“A court will decide if what you just saw qualifies as self-defense.”

Fox shows video and the Times reports

Rittenhouse was being chased by rioters when he fired shots.

Stories now show he was a fan of police and Trump

One story says that at 17 he was not legally allowed to walk around carrying loaded firearms.

Trevor Noah asks why police shot Jacob Blake but not Kyle Rittenhouse

He should be asking why the kid was immediately charged with a first degree murder when reports suggest self-defense and the cop who shot the unarmed Jacob Blake seven times in the back is still free and not charged at all.

Democrats and left leaners are enraged that people have been showing up armed in Kenosha to protect property.

These are people who have spent every day since George Floyd was killed demanding racial justice and defending protesters, spending not one moment on complaints about the armed and violent rioters who have torn cities apart pretty much every night over all that time.

Local authorities and even some police have bought into that same biased narrative.

Some are particularly outraged that these "vigilantes" are in many cases out of towners there to defend property that isn't even theirs.

Not much outrage for the violent rioters who have been there every night to destroy property that isn't even theirs.

Here's a disparity, if you want one

Took them ten seconds to decide to arrest that 17 year old kid, Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois, and charge him with first degree murder.

They shamelessly threw the book at him.

They have still not arrested Rusten Sheskey, a 7-year-veteran of the Kenosha Police Department who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times.

Blake admitted to police interrogators he had a knife and police say they recovered a knife from under the front seat of his car.

That kid didn't fire at anyone until he, fleeing rioters, fell in the street and the rioters kept on coming at him.

Van Jones on CNN at about 8:15 pm is calling the kid a "lawless vigilante" and no one is criticizing that.

He's called the kid that four times in three minutes.

Rick Santorum is calling the kid a vigilante, too!

If that was self-defense, and the news reports indicate it was, then it doesn't matter why he was there.

He was there legally and he was armed legally.

But even a second Republican is calling his shooting at rioters who were reportedly charging at him a despicable act that must be condemned.

Kenosha shooter identified and arrested

Illinois teen charged with homicide in killings of two people during Kenosha protests

If it happened as described in the story he has a pretty good self-defense plea to the seemingly ridiculous charge of first degree murder.

This event adds to the case that several states really need to revisit their carry laws.

They very quickly charged this kid who seemingly fired in self-defense but still have done nothing about the cop who shot Mr. Blake, seemingly out of nothing but rage.

And said nothing.