• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s funny because I was going to bring him up and decided not to. I think it’s insane he got off and what he did was very much murder as well, he knowingly and needlessly put himself in a dangerous situation as to warrant his use of a deadly weapon. There’s some similarities between the two cases in that regard imo.

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      2 months ago

      he knowingly and needlessly put himself in a dangerous situation

      That criticism applies to every single person present in Kenosha that evening.

      A large percentage of the individuals present that evening were armed, some legally, some illegally, including Joshua Ziminski (who fired into the air just before Rosenbaum’s attack) and Gaige Grosskreutz (the fourth person to attempt to use deadly force on Rittenhouse that evening, and the one who instigated the second and third attacks). “Being armed” was not at all an unusual act in Kenosha that night.

      Despite hundreds of hours of video having been captured that night, precisely none shows Rittenhouse instigating any sort of violence that night.