Little Brown Rifleman Attacked by Privileged Gun-Toting White BLM Rioter?

The fake news surrounding the Kenosha shootings is starting to disperse.

Reader Monty James sent me a link to a Gab post containing a photo of one of the shooting victims. The liberal press has not said anything about armed BLMtifers, of course, but the photo shows a young man who appears to be white, holding a semiautomatic pistol. Much of the skin on his right bicep is gone, and there is an area of raw, bloody flesh the size of a pack of cigarettes. He is still able to hold his gun in his right hand, however.

I’ll try to work it out so the photo doesn’t appear in its full glory unless you click something.

Here’s some more bad news for the pundits. By random chance, I came across a Youtube video of a person who appears to be the Kenosha shooter. I suppose I should say “ONE of the shooters” or “the VICTORIOUS shooter,” since the man who was shot in the arm had a pistol in his hand. The young man in the video is holding an AR-15 or similar weapon, and guess what? He’s not white. He appears to be Hispanic. He has dark skin and black hair.

Here’s a Fox photo of the shooter being kicked and attacked with a skateboard.

Here’s a Youtube capture of a person who appears to be the same guy.

What can the press do with that? The party line is that people who resist the terrorists are white racists. Of course it’s a lie, but I’m sure many Americans believe it.

Now leftists journalists have to sit down, scratch their heads, and figure out how to spin the story. It sure looks like a Hispanic volunteer shot an armed BLMtifa white male who was under attack from at least three men trying to do the volunteer great harm. Very bad for the propagandists. It will be even worse if he turns out to be a Democrat. Maybe he was protecting a family business built by immigrants. That would be a nightmare for CNN.

Some are saying he’s a Boogaloo Boi. The Boogaloo Bois are said to be racists pushing for civil war, but then I got that information from the same press that said Nick Sandmann was a racist punk who accosted peaceful, polite activists. For all I know, the Boogaloo Bois are Franciscan monks.

It doesn’t matter whether he’s a Boogaloo Boi, a BLM nut, a Nazi, or an Amway salesman. The law is what matters. If he was attacked without justification, he needs to be sent home with a police escort.

Can you honestly say that if you were attacked by three or more men, one of whom was armed with a skateboard and another of whom was holding a pistol, you wouldn’t shoot? I can’t say that. The self-preservation instinct is very hard to suppress.

I think this encounter demonstrates what I’ve been saying about non-leftists versus leftists. At least three attackers. At least two armed. At least one had a pistol. One defender with a rifle. Result: two attackers dead, the pistol-carrying attacker seriously wounded, incapacitated, and demoralized, and no reports of serious injuries to the non-leftist. If leftists continue escalating things, we will probably see similar outcomes from now on.

MORE

I should have mentioned this earlier. Reader Stephen McAteer provided a link to a Twitter video of the entire Kenosha shooting incident. I can’t repost it, but I’ll post this link.

It shows the victim running from terrorists. He falls down, and people begin attacking him. One kicks him, as shown in the photo above. Another hits him in the head with a skateboard. A third runs and stands over him. This person appears to be the one who was shot in the arm.

In a remarkably competent performance, the victim shoots the man who kicked him, the skateboarder, and the man with the arm wound, in that order. Then he stands up and moves toward the police for safety.

More shots are fired in the video, but it doesn’t appear they came from the victim. They sound like handgun shots. The rifle shots have a different sound.

It appears he only shot each attacker once, and he shot while they were attacking, not later in retaliation. When he approached the police, he raised his hands to indicate he was not going to give them any problems, and the police did not take him into custody or order him to lie on the ground or put his gun down. They didn’t appear to be concerned about his rifle, so maybe they knew him as a neighborhood defender.

I should add that it’s not completely certain the man shot in the arm had a pistol. The photo showing the black object in his hand is not utterly conclusive, but the appearance of the object is completely consistent with the appearance of a pistol, and it’s not consistent with the appearance of anything else a person might be expected to hold at such a time. For example, it’s too thick to be a phone.

My wild-guess prediction: no conviction for the victim. I don’t know whether he’ll be charged. It probably depends on whether the prosecutor is a Democrat.

MORE

Man, this story is moving fast. The shooter has been identified and charged. His name is Kyle Rittenhouse, he’s 17, he’s not from Wisconsin, and the police know him and consider him an ally.

Here’s a link to an MSN story.

Another story says the police had been seen giving water to Rittenhouse and his companions and telling them they appreciated them. How about that?

I said he wasn’t white, based on his appearance, but his last name is Rittenhouse, which has kind of a WASPy sound to it. Names don’t always line up with ethnicity, though.

The District Attorney is one Michael Graveley, Democrat. Given the exculpatory evidence contained in the video, Graveley’s political beliefs may explain why Kyle Rittenhouse was charged. The story says he was charged with premeditated murder, which is a bit ridiculous considering he was attacked three times, while sitting on the ground, during the 5 seconds preceding the firing of the first shot.

MORE

Well, I have to apologize. It turns out there is more video, shot before the Twitter video mentioned above.

Rittenhouse and his friends were protecting a business, and rioters were challenging them. A small bald man in a maroon shirt pushed forward and tried to provoke the volunteers. At least twice, he told them to shoot him. Shortly thereafter, a bare-chested man with a maroon head covering ran a good distance at high speed and entered the space between two parked cars. Shots were fired. After that, the video shows the bald man on the ground with people trying to help him. They say he has a head wound. The bald man appears conscious. The wound is shown, and it appears to be a graze on the right side of his head. There is no blood visible beneath him.

After that, the events shown in the other video take place. It looks like someone took the long version and edited it for Twitter. Not good practice.

The impression I get from the long video is that the bald guy was determined to cause a physical altercation. You can see the other rioters restraining him at times. It looks like he was the aggressor. He appears to have chased Rittenhouse down.

Still looks like self-defense.

What if the rioters who attacked Rittenhouse after the initial wounding were trying to hold him for the cops? That theory would be garbage. First, he was walking to the police when they attacked. Second, you’re not allowed to beat people you believe have committed crimes. If they’re not threatening you, you’re supposed to call the police or, if necessary, restrain them using measured force. You can’t stomp on them, hit them in the head with skateboards, or stand over them waving pistols.

It will be interesting to see if the bald guy is okay. I’ll bet he is. My guess is that Rittenhouse killed two of the men who attacked him while he was on the ground.

MORE

Another video shows the man with the damaged arm, clearly holding a pistol after being shot. Self-defense does not get any clearer than that.

Even assuming Rittenhouse was a madman who was spraying people with lead randomly, you can’t chase someone down after a violent crime and shoot them. That’s first-degree murder. Rittenhouse was obviously walking to the police, the rioter knew it, and he had no business sticking a gun in his face while he was being beaten.

MORE

One of the dead rioters is named Anthony Huber, and he was 25. He’s the man who attacked Rittenhouse with a skateboard. He was shot while in the act. Completely justified.