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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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If more adults in Kenosha came out to protect their town from violent, lawless commie anarchists, perhaps kids don't have to.

That's right. The same people telling us not to take any action, and to hide under the table and wait to be saved from ourselves are still at it.

+/- 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18. The youngest US soldier in WWII was 12.

Some people would rather talk the talk, while others are willing to walk.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Talk about controlling the narrative. I have read the entire thread on the events in Kenosha. What follows is the "reporting" from WGN. I wonder whether CNN wrote the script. Here is an excerpt:

KENOSHA, Wis. — A 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday in the killing of two people gunned down during a third night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was taken into custody in Illinois on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide. Antioch is about 15 miles from Kenosha.

Two people were shot to death Tuesday night in an attack carried out by a young white man who was caught on cellphone video opening fire in the middle of the street with a semi-automatic rifle.

“I just killed somebody,” the gunman could be heard saying at one point during the rampage that erupted just before midnight.

In the wake of the killings, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers authorized 500 members of the National Guard to support local law enforcement around Kenosha, doubling the number of troops sent in. The governor’s office said he is working with other states to bring in additional National Guard troops and law officers. Authorities also announced a 7 p.m. curfew.

“A senseless tragedy like this cannot happen again,” the governor, a Democrat, said in a statement. “I again ask those who choose to exercise their First Amendment rights please do so peacefully and safely, as so many did last night. I also ask the individuals who are not there to exercise those rights to please stay home and let local first responders, law enforcement and members of the Wisconsin National Guard do their jobs.”

One victim was shot in the head and the other in the chest, Sheriff David Beth told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A third person suffered gunshot wounds not believed to be life-threatening.

“We were all chanting ‘Black lives matter’ at the gas station and then we heard, boom, boom, and I told my friend, ‘That’s not fireworks,’” 19-year-old protester Devin Scott told the Chicago Tribune. “And then this guy with this huge gun runs by us in the middle of the street and people are yelling, ‘He shot someone! He shot someone!’ And everyone is trying to fight the guy, chasing him and then he started shooting again.”

Scott said he cradled a lifeless victim in his arms, and a woman started performing CPR, but “I don’t think he made it.”

According to witness accounts and video footage, police apparently let the young man responsible for the shootings walk past them with a rifle over his shoulder as members of the crowd were yelling for him to be arrested because he had shot people.

Rittenhouse, identified in court papers as a lifeguard at a YMCA in Lindenhurst, Illinois, was assigned a public defender in Illinois for a hearing Friday on handing him over to Wisconsin authorities. The public defender’s office had no comment.

Much of Rittenhouse’s Facebook page is devoted to praising law enforcement, with references to Blue Lives Matter, a movement that supports police. He also can be seen holding an assault rifle.

Other photographs include those of badges of various law enforcement agencies, including the Chicago Police Department. All of the badges have a black line across them — something police officers do with black tape or other material whenever an officer is killed in the line of duty.

In a photograph posted by his mother, he is wearing what appears to be a blue law enforcement uniform as well as the kind of brimmed hat that state troopers wear.


LINK; https://wgntv.com/news/teen-su...antioch-sources-say/

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
^^ I'd like to know how he found himself along with these crazies. He was earlier in the night part of a group.

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Originally posted by oddball:
Read elsewhere that GoFundMe is not allowing anyone to setup a legal defense fund for the guy. But accounts are already set for the ones shot.

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Originally posted by Largefarva:
The Antioch police chief has already put out that they are preparing for civil unrest tonight based on threats on social media. Getting closer to home....


Whomever the piece of shit that had to make that form with Kyle’s address on it public deserves to strung up and beaten. There’s no way that residence isn’t going to be hit tonight. If anyone that lives there gets harmed in anyway I hope whomever it was that publicized it realizes it’s on him/her.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Don Lemon of CNN is worried about the rioting:

“The rioting has to stop... it’s showing up in the polling, it’s showing up in focus groups.”

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oh my.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by esdunbar:
I'm not so sure that the guy with the new hole in his head threw a Molotov cocktail. If you look at the earlier videos, he's holding a largish plastic bag. I think that's what he threw and it look like it was on fire, but it was really just the light from the building shining through it.

I disagree. You can hear the glass clank on the pavement. The thing didn't burst because bottle glass is meant to bounce instead of shattering, and it wasn't the best throw. Looks like a lit molotov cocktail, sounds like a molotov, and the guy with the rifle responded as if it were a molotov. I'm gonna go with Occam's Razor on this one.

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Originally posted by dewhorse:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
^^ I'd like to know how he found himself along with these crazies. He was earlier in the night part of a group.

I was watching the live stream last night and saw both he and the group, they weren't "crazies"...actually pretty level headed considering

Now why they would let a 17yo join them is great question along with where was his battle buddy.

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Originally posted by kimber1911:

I’m gonna go with Occam’s Razor on this one as well.
Looks like a Molotov Cocktail to me.

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It was a soda drinkcomet in a clear bag

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Originally posted by oddball:
Read elsewhere that GoFundMe is not allowing anyone to setup a legal defense fund for the guy. But accounts are already set for the ones shot.