What Do We Know Of The Upbringing Of Kyle Rittenhouse.....

[global1]

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I couldn't find out anything about KRit's birth, parents, where he lived in his early years, schools he went to (i.e., grammer school, high school), friends he hung with, any interviews of some of his classmates, neighbors, etc.

Everything I've read about him was - that he was a high school dropout, plagued by bullies, enamored with the police - most of the info was post shooting and where he got the gun, how he got to Kenosha, etc.

I really couldn't find out anything of his early years - birth to just before the shooting.

Does anyone have his early life bio's?

[regnaD kciN]

1. Apparently, he grew up in an abusive family...

[dem4decades]

2. It appears that his mother is dumber than dirt.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Dad wasn't in his life that much

He has two sisters.

[wnylib]

4. He dropped out of high school?

Didn't he say, after the trial, that he is going on to study nursing? He'll need a GED to get admitted to a nursing program.

OTOH, who wants a vigilante with a hero complex who has taken the lives of two people taking care of their loved one?

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. Supposedly he got his GED through an online high school

[dalton99a]

9. Looks like he dropped out in freshman year:

It was not immediately known if Rittenhouse attended school, as Community High School District 117 released a statement saying an Antioch resident tied to the Kenosha violence attended Lakes Community High School for a short time during the 2017-18 school year and was no longer enrolled in the district.

Rittenhouse attended the Lake Villa school for one semester as a freshman in 2017, said Jim McKay, district superintendent. McKay said he didn’t know why Rittenhouse left the district or what school he attended afterward.

”I don’t know the details of his departure,” said McKay, who added that he doesn’t believe the teen had been involved in any sports or extracurricular activities. “He was with us for such a short period of time.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-kenosha-shooting-kyle-rittenhouse-20200826-xdww3peuj5ddbimcj4vikx63y4-story.html

[dalton99a]

5. Here:

Just south is Lake County, Illinois. Rittenhouse’s parents, Wendy and Mike, got married there in February, 2000, and their daughter Faith was born six months later. The other two Rittenhouse children were born in 2003: Kyle in January, McKenzie in December. When the children were small, Wendy and Mike worked various jobs, including machine operator, housekeeper, and cashier. Mike, who struggled with alcohol addiction and sometimes experimented with drugs, was unemployed for a couple of years. When Kyle was four, Mike was charged with domestic battery after allegedly punching Wendy in the stomach. (He denies this; the charges were dismissed.) Twice, Wendy and the children briefly lived in a shelter.

Wendy and Mike eventually split up. (Mike says that he has been sober for years and wants to repair his family relationships.) Wendy had become a certified nursing assistant, but she continued to struggle financially. The family was repeatedly evicted.

Wendy sometimes felt too overwhelmed to help her kids navigate difficulties. In 2017, when Kyle was fourteen, she tried to resolve a conflict between him and two classmates, twins named Anthony and Jonathan, by seeking restraining orders. In a handwritten petition to the court, Wendy, who has dyslexia, wrote, “Anthony calls Klye dumb stupid say that going to hurt Kyle. Anthony follows Kyle around to take picture of Klye and post them on soical media.”

That fall, Rittenhouse, a pudgy ninth grader in dark-framed glasses, joined the Explorers program at the Grayslake Police Department, near Antioch. The police chief viewed the program as a way to “teach self-discipline, responsibility and other appropriate ‘life lessons’ ” to youths who “may have a challenging home, social, or school life.” Rittenhouse participated in a similar cadet program through the Antioch Fire Department. Jon Cokefair, the fire chief, told me, “Most of the kids that are doing this, they don’t play football, they’re not cheerleaders—this is their focus.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/kyle-rittenhouse-american-vigilante

[Hoyt]

7. Thanks. Explains a lot, although doesn't excuse it.

[DURHAM D]

11. How could he afford to buy an assault rifle?

Maybe he used the rent money and that is why they got evicted.

[dalton99a]

13. It was his unemployment money

In a phone interview with the Washington Post, Rittenhouse revealed the gun he used in the shooting was purchased using money he received from an unemployment check during the coronavirus pandemic. Rittenhouse, 17, could not legally purchase the weapon himself, so he gave the money to a friend to buy it for him, according to both Rittenhouse and police reports.

"I got my $1,200 from the coronavirus Illinois unemployment, because I was on furlough from YMCA, and I got my first unemployment check so I was like, 'Oh I'll use this to buy it,'" he told the Post.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/kyle-rittenhouse-reveals-how-gun-was-paid-for-in-first-interview-since-arrest/2366751/

[NJCher]

16. what a sense of judgment

isn't unemployment the bare minimum to cover rent, food, etc.?

you really have to wonder about the criteria he used to make that decision.

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. He received an coronavirus unemployment check in the amount of $1200.00

A friend of his in Wisconsin did a straw purchase on his behalf as Kyle was too young to buy the gun himself.

Edit: Corrected for accuracy.

[Progressive Jones]

6. I know that the area he comes from has a lot of lower class rednecks. nt

[Deuxcents]

10. Me, either..

I mean no disrespect, my du friend, my life has not been a bowl of cherries. I hope my jury of likeminded friends find me compassionate but the facts vs the verdict does not meet the verdict

[VarryOn]

12. Sounds like he didn't have a dog's chance...

Typical trailer trash. Still, no excuse. Old enough to know better.

[hlthe2b]

25. White Generational Poverty?

[hlthe2b]

27. I think there are signficant differences.

both cultural and systemic societal.

[global1]

14. In Other High Profile Cases We Get All Sorts Of Background Info On The Defendant....

In this case it is difficult to find early bio info on KRit.

It seems like we got more info on the guys KRit shot & killed. Why didn't we hear more about KRit's formative years?

They usually probe very aggressively other defendants in other cases - but with KRit it seems like there was a blackout on his background info?

Or did I just miss hearing that info?

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

17. I do not give a flying fuck if he was abused!!

I was abused in all ways a person can be and bullied all through school. I CHOSE to not carry on my abuse just like all people can do. Yes, I was lucky to have therapy but in the end it is only our personal choice.

[JohnQFunk]

18. There were two questions that kept recurring in my head during Rittenhouse's testimony:

Is it possible that Rittenhouse is on the autism spectrum?

Has he ever had a complete psychological workup?

[global1]

20. Does He Have Any Siblings? Was He Considered A Loner? Did Neighbors Say....

he was always a good guy - polite - and we can't believe that this happened to him?

What kind of crowd did he hang with? Who were his friends? What do they think about him?

Was he born in Antioch, Illinois? Did he grow up in Antioch? Did he have any part-time jobs?

Did he go to a public grammar school or a parochial grammar school? Did he grow up in a religious environment?

What social media networks was he on?

We usually get all this info about the accused - but it seems like in the case of KRit - we didn't learn much about him.

I'm just curious. Why haven't we learned this info? If his social media sites were frozen - why? Who froze them or who ordered the froze?

Like I said - I'm just curious.

[jcmaine72]

19. We know that Sam Baines was 100% correct about idiots breeding more idiots.

https://m.

[multigraincracker]

21. Was a nobody, wanting to be a somebody,

now a somebody, that'll wishes he was a nobody. I don't see a happy future there.

[Deminpenn]

28. Read the entire New Yorker story linked

upthread and again here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/kyle-rittenhouse-american-vigilante

What you come away with is a picture of a financially struggling family where the mom tried to hold things together, but didn't have the knowledge of what to do to help her son or her family. Then the rightwing swooped in offering legal help and she and her son got tangled up in their world and became unwitting pawns in this kooky worldview. It's pretty clear they didn't know with whom or what they were getting involved. I think they know now, but it might be too late to extricate themselves.