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Interesting. Any more context of this video? Although let's me clear, this is him saying he wanted to shoot someone for an unknown reason. Not him saying he wanted to go to Kenosha to shoot people.
The video wasn't allowed because rittenhouse shot no looter, legal eagle explains it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxoYNpBMaCg
The point is that he WANTED to kill people that weren’t a threat. Looting is not a punishment by vigilante murderer offense.
Nobody he killed was doing any looting. So whats the point? He deserves jail sentence for something he didnt do?
Had he opened fire on people that were looting, the trial would have been a totally different thing, they simply attacked him for holding a weapon which is insanely stupid and you are mad that he defended himself lmao.
You’re defending a murderer. Stop it.
I'll watch the video when I get a chance, can't right now at work.
But I did want to say I appreciate you actually providing stuff respectfully instead of just attacking and misrepresenting my position.
Yeah it is crazy how misinformation spreads, if you actually go back on reddit and check /r/news the day the ruling happened everybody pretty much knew that was going to be the result because of how much of a shitshow the trial was and that the prosecution had nothing in their case.
But yeah the fact that people still spread blatant lies like "he drove across state lines with the rifle" is very chilling.
It's the same thing with the Zimmerman/Martin. The facts don't matter, just the narrative the originally caught on. Any deviation from this is met with derision. And I'm not saying one side only, I've been attacked by both the people who think Rittenhouse is completely innocent saint that is the victim of biased system, and those who think he is a cold blooded murderer that went there that day with the intent of murdering people. No room for nuance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxoYNpBMaCg
And this is something every lawyer will tell you is reasonable btw.