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‘I believed things he told me that I now understand to be … lies,’ Dave Hancock says in new Rittenhouse documentary

A former spokesperson for Kyle Rittenhouse says he became disillusioned with his ex-client after learning that he had sent text messages pledging to “fucking murder” shoplifters outside a Chicago pharmacy before later shooting two people to death during racial justice protests in Wisconsin in 2020.

Dave Hancock made that remark about Rittenhouse – for whom he also worked as a security guard – on a Law & Crime documentary that premiered on Friday. The show explored the unsuccessful criminal prosecution of Rittenhouse, who killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

As Hancock told it on The Trials of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 90-minute film’s main subject had “a history of things he was doing prior to [the double slaying], specifically patrolling the street for months with guns and borrowing people’s security uniforms, doing whatever he could to try to get into some kind of a fight”.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 weeks ago

Wait, you mean the guy everyone was saying went to Kenosha to murder people, actually went to Kenosha to murder people?!?!?! Color me shocked.

Only idiots and the mentally deficient bought his official story.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My only weakness was not being cynical enough.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I always knew he was a piece of shit because of how white he is and how much support fox gave him. -- cynical man

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 weeks ago

Oh imagine that everybody with a brain was right all along and some f****** lunatic murderer got off again great job America

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Little pudding faced cunt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is puberty ever gonna hit that man?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Jesus, how was Rittenhouse murdering those guys only four years ago? It feels like it was at least ten.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We're all aging like US presidents now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The last 8 years have gone by in what feels like months.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He deliberately sought out an altercation and he deliberately brought his gun.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They should have waited to prosecute. He would have lost today.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That seems like it would violate the sixth amendment. Besides, we knew all of this back then.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No, you have a right to a speedy trial. You don’t have the right to be charged with a crime in a speedy way while evidence is gathered against you.

Sometimes we should wait for them to incriminate themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 153 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Wait you mean when he grabbed a rifle and traveled an inordinate distance to the scene of a riot and shot two people to death, he wasn't just an innocent bystander after all?

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 weeks ago

Let’s not forget how the judge in that case dismissed video evidence of him saying he wanted to shoot people. If that didn’t change this assholes mind-

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