First degree murder!

[imanamerican63]

That 17 year old was charged with 1st degree murder! GOOOOOD!

[musette_sf]

1. and now it is time

to arrest Mom.

[leftieNanner]

3. Did she give him the gun?

And the crazy-in-the-head "ammo"?

[Baclava]

11. Where did u read that? Link?

[Hav]

12. I was only going from what I read here

But you are right, we should wait for official confirmation. I'll delete my other post.

[gristy]

14. I read that too somewhere

What you deleted... We won't know for sure unless/when charges are brought.

[musette_sf]

15. She drove him to Kenosha.

People get sentenced and put away for life for aiding and abetting murder. So, tick-tock...

[Scarsdale]

28. What did she think he would

do with that gun? She had to know he had it with them. Where was she while he was raging through the streets?

[cwydro]

39. And yet, no one has provided a link to that.

Everyone apparently read it here.

[dware]

42. I've looked all over the Internet

and I'll be damned if I can find any confirmation of that allegation.

[George II]

50. Reports are she drove him to Kenosha from their home in Antioch, about 20 miles away...

I presume the gun was in the car, she drove, so she's complicit in first degree murder.

[musette_sf]

54. And it looks like he had no valid driver's license,

so it would make sense that Mommy drove him to Kenosha. If you're set on hunting down innocent people to kill, you wouldn't want to get pulled over and detained on the way there for no valid DL.

Rittenhouse was charged a week ago in a separate case in Kenosha County for allegedly speeding between 20 and 24 mph over the limit on a freeway and for driving without a valid license.

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/08/27/906566596/alleged-kenosha-shooter-fervently-supported-blue-lives-joined-local-militia

[SheltieLover]

34. This!👆

[Freedomofspeech]

2. Wonderful news!!

They should charge his mother, too.

[634-5789]

4. Jail for life and one day.

Damned racist deserves not a day less. He ruined the lives of decent people, and it sickens me. No pity, throw the book at him.

[leftieNanner]

5. Good Lord!

Ass Face will pardon him!

[imanamerican63]

6. My very Sam thought!

[virgogal]

13. He can't pardon him....not allowed...not a federal crime.

[imanamerican63]

19. What if it is a hate crime?

That brings federal charges?

[Dr. Strange]

20. Then Trump can pardon those.

But not the state charges.

[Voltaire2]

23. state crimes are not subject to presidential pardons.

[leftieNanner]

27. Oh, of course! Nt

[dware]

31. The Mango Menace doesn't have the power to pardon him,

he's being charged and tried by the state of WI, if or when he's convicted, only the Gov. of WI has to power to pardon him.

[Mister Ed]

7. It's the appropriate charge. It seems likely that his intent was to find someone to shoot. n/t

[stillcool]

8. thank you jeezus

ah..exhale.

[radius777]

10. Jail the cops who helped and the mom who drove him there. /nt

[Best_man23]

16. This little Yoho has one out from a life sentence (or consecutive life sentences)

He needs to name names, and I mean EVERYONE...from the person who put him up to picking up that weapon and going up to Kenosha to the names of every member of every RWNJ group he's associated with. Simply put, he would need to give law enforcement EVERYTHING he's got.

If he names some good names that results in some high level actionable prosecutions, he just might avoid a full lifetime of being some alpha neo-Nazi's bottom half.

Frankly, I hope he doesn't have anything, other than being yet another sad example of how following racist ideologies can ruin your life.

[rso]

17. Magashooter

Murder is a State charge, and since Donnie can only pardon federal charges, the magashooter can only be pardoned by the Governor. And democratic Gov. Evers will not pardon.

[brush]

18. I hope authorities aren't playing the over-charging game, as...

was done with george zimmerman, to get that murdering kid off with as little time as possible. First degree means you purposely planned someone's killing and carried it out, premeditation.

The killings in that demonstration don't seem to fit that definition, whereas second degree murder is generally described as the unpremeditated intentional killing of another. That's perhaps more appropriate, or maybe aggravated manslaughter, which is when the actor recklessly causes death under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life.

I just don't want them to pull legal tricks for that murdering kid to get off relatively easy.

[MyMission]

46. He brought a gun to a protest, planning to use it

So he planned to kill protesters, not any specific person but any random protesters, who were peaceful and did nothing to provoke him. He was already provoked by right wing dementia when he went there.

[brush]

48. That's not provable in court though.

[MyMission]

57. Perhaps they'll discover enough circumstantial evidence

To persuade a jury of his premeditation. And perhaps not. We will see. I wonder if the trial process will be swift, and doubt it.

I am saddened and sickened by this; a young unbalanced male shooting into a crowd, at no one in particular. A mass shooting always makes me feel like that.

[live love laugh]

21. Wonder if being a minor will lessen his sentence?

[regnaD kciN]

25. Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't try him as a juvenile...

...so he'd only get a few months in reform school.

After all, charging someone under 18 as an adult isn’t supposed to happen to us white people!

[CCExile]

43. Well, yeah, but...

he shot a WHITE man! (angry sarcasm off)

[drmeow]

59. Bah

a hippie protester type. They don't count as white, especially since he's not black!

[PTWB]

55. That isn't an option under WI law.

[dware]

35. Probably not.

By the time he goes to trial, he'll probably be 18, and if he's convicted, then he'll be sentenced as a bona fide adult.

[live love laugh]

47. Good to know.

[tenderfoot]

56. He should be tried as an adult

eom

[Voltaire2]

22. And not a cop so no qualified immunity.

And self defense is going to be a non-starter.

He's screwed. Best hope is a jury of shitheads.

[maxsolomon]

24. Hopefully that charge works.

I've already ben seeing the Asst DA being slandered as a puppet of George Soros.

The charge is appropriate, but a lesser charge (2nd degree, even Man 1) might be more palatable to a jury who'll need to be sequestered for the duration.

Plus, it only takes 1 RW Jury-Nullifier to lie during selection and bollocks the whole trial up. See: the Hokoanas in Seattle, the Bundys in Portland. The selection process is going to be excruciating and blatantly racist.

My opinion: he won't get life for this. 25.

[Reader Rabbit]

30. I'm wondering if the charge is designed to get him to plead guilty.

If the DA offers a lesser charge, the kid's attorney might jump at it.

[Dan]

36. Wonder if this will influence...

The two men he killed were White.

[philf99]

26. Good

I would assume his bail will be quite high.

[Evolve Dammit]

29. MAGA. Reap what you saw. Coulter wants him as her President. Can't make this shit up.

[grantcart]

32. Or her pool boy

[Mr.Bill]

33. I would like to know where and how he got the gun.

And do we know anything about his parents or other family?

I'll admit I'm not familiar with gun laws in every state, but can it be legal for someone under 18 to openly carry a gun? If I was a cop I would have at least asked him for an ID earlier. Cops talked to him and didn't think of that? And he very much looks like he's even younger than he is.

[dware]

37. It is illegal in any state for a juvenile to open carry any firearm

unsupervised by an adult, so the cops that just let him pass should be brought up on charges also for negligence, and possibly accessory to the fact because they didn't do their job and ID him, especially as he looks younger than 17.

[Dan]

38. Good point!

Because we know that little Black kids are killed by the police for carrying a water gun while playing in city parks within a few seconds of intervention by police.

[Traildogbob]

44. 2 dead

And the 3rd wounded practically had his arm severed with the war toy. The chubby little puke may be an incel. He may get some attention, but just not from 17 year old high school girls. If he lives a day in prison.

[BigmanPigman]

40. Mom must be soooo proud of her baby...

Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) Tweeted:
And here. With her son.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[keithbvadu2]

49. I've read that he is a cop wannabe, a pretender, a fake.

I've read that he is a cop wannabe, a pretender, a fake.

Was he ever in some junior LEO training program or is this just his Halloween costume?

[BigmanPigman]

51. This article has a lot of info...

https://nypost.com/2020/08/27/what-we-know-about-accused-kenosha-gunman-kyle-rittenhouse/

"His mom also posted photos of him clad in a blue cadet uniform adorned with a badge — and the teen had participated in cadet programs with the Grayslake Police Department, according to the Washington Post.

It allows wannabes from 14 to 21 “the opportunity to explore a career in law enforcement” through ride-alongs with officers on patrol and firearms training, according to since-deleted pages on its website. The Grayslake Police Department said it is cooperating with an investigation by the FBI and Kenosha police into Rittenhouse."

[cwydro]

41. I hope two counts of 1st degree murder.

He killed two people.

And attempted murder, I would hope, for the guy whose arm he probably ruined.

[Tetrachloride]

45. The link

https://www.channel3000.com/17-year-old-charged-in-kenosha-shootings-that-killed-2/]

Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley filed the charges against Kyle Rittenhouse Thursday afternoon.

The charges include one count of first-degree intentional homicide; one count of first-degree reckless homicide; one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide; two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.

[George II]

52. To everyone who believes in the death penalty, consider this:

- He's 17 years old
- He'll be sentenced to life imprisonment
- That could be 60 years

SIXTY years of being told when to get up, when to eat, when to go to bed, and constant noise around him. Then he'll die.

If executed, he'd miss out on all of that. He'll simply die.

Which is the worst punishment?

[keithbvadu2]

53. Timothy McVeigh wanted execution.

Timothy McVeigh wanted execution.

He would rather be a martyr than a lifetime of prison.

[Codeine]

58. He's going to walk.

Zimmerman part deux