A protester and volunteer medic wounded on the streets of Kenosha by Kyle Rittenhouse says he was unintentionally pointing his own gun at the rifle-toting Rittenhouse when the young man shot him in the arm
The problem with legally trying to argue this way is that even if you manage to successfully argue that the victims were not doing a criminal thing by pursuing/subduing Rittenhouse, that just means that your victims arent legally in trouble.
Even if the people who Rittenhouse shot and killed did nothing wrong because they thought he was an active shooter, because he was retreating in the process he's probably entirely covered by self defense laws, plus the dipshit who fired a warning shot right before the first killing and the fact that people were trying to physically subdue him before the second killing.
Basically the victim could have reasonably pointed a gun at Rittenhouse at the same time Rittenhouse "reasonably(legally speaking)" shot the victim in "self defense".
Apparently the first victim had made multiple threats towards Rittenhouse before the actual confrontation so that might make that strategy more challenging, but Id agree that it definitely feels like the prosecution could do more. Ive seen a lot of people say the whole thing just has the vibe of "if we dont attempt to prosecute this there will be more riots"(understandably), and that in any normal case this wouldnt have been prosecuted.
The problem with legally trying to argue this way is that even if you manage to successfully argue that the victims were not doing a criminal thing by pursuing/subduing Rittenhouse, that just means that your victims arent legally in trouble.
Even if the people who Rittenhouse shot and killed did nothing wrong because they thought he was an active shooter, because he was retreating in the process he's probably entirely covered by self defense laws, plus the dipshit who fired a warning shot right before the first killing and the fact that people were trying to physically subdue him before the second killing.
Basically the victim could have reasonably pointed a gun at Rittenhouse at the same time Rittenhouse "reasonably(legally speaking)" shot the victim in "self defense".
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Apparently the first victim had made multiple threats towards Rittenhouse before the actual confrontation so that might make that strategy more challenging, but Id agree that it definitely feels like the prosecution could do more. Ive seen a lot of people say the whole thing just has the vibe of "if we dont attempt to prosecute this there will be more riots"(understandably), and that in any normal case this wouldnt have been prosecuted.
Lesson learned: never give Nazis a warning shot