The lawyers for The Hero Kyle Rittenhouse have released a statement concerning the events related to the wrongful arrest of their client in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And be warned, if you're going to run the tedious conservative Smart Boy black pill routine, you're just going to be spammed.
After Kyle finished his work that day as a
community lifeguard in Kenosha, he wanted to help clean up some of the damage,
so he and a friend went to the local public high school to remove graffiti by
rioters. Later in the day, they received information about a call for help from
a local business owner, whose downtown Kenosha auto dealership was largely
destroyed by mob violence. The business owner needed help to protect what he
had left of his life’s work, including two nearby mechanic’s shops. Kyle and a
friend armed themselves with rifles due to the deadly violence gripping Kenosha
and many other American cities, and headed to the business premises. The
weapons were in Wisconsin and never crossed state lines.
Upon arrival, Kyle and others stood guard at
the mechanic’s shop across from the auto dealership to prevent further damage
or destruction. Later that night, substantially after the city’s 8:00 p.m.
curfew expired without consequence, the police finally started to attempt to
disperse a group of rioters. In doing so, they maneuvered a mass of individuals
down the street towards the auto shops. Kyle and others on the premises were
verbally threatened and taunted multiple times as the rioters passed by, but
Kyle never reacted. His intent was not to incite violence, but simply to deter
property damage and use his training to provide first aid to injured community
members.
After the crowd passed the premises and Kyle
believed the threat of further destruction had passed, he became increasingly
concerned with the injured protestors and bystanders congregating at a nearby
gas station with no immediate access to medical assistance or help from law
enforcement. Kyle headed in that direction with a first aid kit. He sought out
injured persons, rendered aid, and tried to guide people to others who could
assist to the extent he could do so amid the chaos. By the final time Kyle
returned to 2 the gas station and confirmed there were no more injured
individuals who needed assistance, police had advanced their formation and
blocked what would have been his path back to the mechanic’s shop. Kyle then
complied with the police instructions not to go back there. Kyle returned to
the gas station until he learned of a need to help protect the second
mechanic’s shop further down the street where property destruction was imminent
with no police were nearby.
As Kyle proceeded towards the second
mechanic’s shop, he was accosted by multiple rioters who recognized that he had
been attempting to protect a business the mob wanted to destroy. This outraged
the rioters and created a mob now determined to hurt Kyle. They began chasing
him down. Kyle attempted to get away, but he could not do so quickly enough.
Upon the sound of a gunshot behind him, Kyle turned and was immediately faced
with an attacker lunging towards him and reaching for his rifle. He reacted
instantaneously and justifiably with his weapon to protect himself, firing and
striking the attacker.
Kyle stopped to ensure care for the wounded
attacker but faced a growing mob gesturing towards him. He realized he needed
to flee for his safety and his survival. Another attacker struck Kyle from
behind as he fled down the street. Kyle turned as the mob pressed in on him and
he fell to the ground. One attacker kicked Kyle on the ground while he was on
the ground. Yet another bashed him over the head with a skateboard. Several
rioters tried to disarm Kyle. In fear for his life and concerned the crowd
would either continue to shoot at him or even use his own weapon against him,
Kyle had no choice but to fire multiple rounds towards his immediate attackers,
striking two, including one armed attacker. The rest of the mob began to
disperse upon hearing the additional gunshots.
Kyle got up and continued down the street in
the direction of police with his hands in the air. He attempted to contact
multiple police officers, but they were more concerned with the wounded
attackers. The police did not take Kyle into custody at that time, but instead
they indicated he should keep moving. He fully cooperated, both then and later
that night when he turned himself in to the police in his hometown, Antioch,
Illinois.
Kyle did nothing wrong. He exercised his
God-given, Constitutional, common law and statutory law right to self-defense.
However, in a reactionary rush to appease the
divisive, destructive forces currently roiling this country, prosecutors in
Kenosha did not engage in any meaningful analysis of the facts, or any in-depth
review of available video footage (some of which shows that a critical state’s
witness was not even at the area where the shots were fired); this was not a
serious investigation. Rather, after learning Kyle may have had conservative
political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could
use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the
government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens. Within
24-36 hours, he was charged with multiple homicide counts.
Kyle now has the best legal representation in
the country. With help from Nicholas Sandmann attorney L. Lin Wood, Pierce
Bainbridge and multiple top-tier criminal defense lawyers in Wisconsin
immediately offered representation to Kyle.
Today, his legal team was successful in
working with the public defender to obtain a several-week continuance of his
extradition hearing to September 25th. This at least partially slows down the
rush to judgment by a government and media that is determined to assassinate
his character and destroy his life.
Kyle, his family, the team at Pierce
Bainbridge and his other lawyers intend to fight these charges every step of
the way, take the case to trial and win an acquittal on the grounds of
self-defense before a jury of his peers.
The legal fees and other costs of Kyle’s
defense will be provided through donations to #FightBack Foundation Inc., a
Texas 501(c)(4) foundation created by John Pierce and Lin Wood to protect law
abiding American citizens whose rights are being trampled on by state and local
governments that are more concerned with appeasing mobs than protecting those
rights.
