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A former spokesperson for Kyle Rittenhouse says he became disillusioned with his ex-client after learning that he had sent text messages pledging to “fucking murder” shoplifters outside a pharmacy before later shooting two people to death during racial justice protests in Wisconsin in 2020.

Dave Hancock made that remark about Rittenhouse – for whom he also worked as a security guard – on a Law & Crime documentary that premiered on Friday. The show explored the unsuccessful criminal prosecution of Rittenhouse, who killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

As Hancock told it on The Trials of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 90-minute film’s main subject had “a history of things he was doing prior to [the double slaying], specifically patrolling the street for months with guns and borrowing people’s security uniforms, doing whatever he could to try to get into some kind of a fight”.

Hancock nonetheless said he initially believed Rittenhouse’s claims of self-defense when he first relayed his story about fatally shooting Rosenbaum and Huber. Yet that changed when he later became aware of text messages that surfaced as part of a civil lawsuit filed by the family of one of the men slain in Kenosha demanding wrongful death damages from Rittenhouse.

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[–] venusenvy47@reddthat.com 2 points 7 hours ago

I don't know who this spokesperson is, but it's strange that he didn't know about the pharmacy thing. It was well-publicized before the trial, along with a video. This seems more relevant than these text messages.

https://www.wisn.com/article/new-video-appears-to-show-kyle-rittenhouse-before-kenosha-killings/37351942#

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So many gun owners I know share similar sentiments. Gun ownership to them is all about getting a legal kill. America is disgusting.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago

America is so different from when I was a child. Late stage capitalism is destroying our once great national like a malignant brain tumor and it is painful to watch

[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 7 points 15 hours ago

Why this specific instance of Rittenhouse exposing himself as bloodthirsty when there were many more instances before it?

Is there some "fifty flags" rule before you can say they're planning to murder people?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

what really did it for me was his ADHD pacing around in circles while the riot vehicles rolled in. this was a manic little kid, way too excited to be holding a gun.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Psycho gonna psycho.

[–] Travelator@thelemmy.club 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's stop giving this idiot a voice in the media, please.

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[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 225 points 1 day ago (27 children)

Wait are you trying to tell me that the kid who took a gun he didn’t own to a state he didn’t live in to shoot protestors he didn’t know ostensibly to protect businesses he’s unaffiliated with wanted to kill people?? Wow I am shocked. Shocked!

Honestly of course he wanted to murder people, anyone who disputes that is and has always been deliberately lying.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All those people that defended this douche when I said there was proof of intention that was dismissed by a biased judge can fuck all the way off.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Yup, it was clear from the start he was cruising for a fight, which the law is literally supposed to prohibit even from police officers

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The prosecution team was 100% to blame for this little shit not getting what he deserved. I hope the litigants in the civil suit do a better job, but to be honest, they barely even need to try. Even I could put on a suit and walk in off the street and convince the jury of his liability in those killings. And that's just using the evidence we had back in 2020. With these text messages, I could call it in over Zoom while driving around delivering pizzas for 40 minutes.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 day ago

It's easy to talk out of your ass about how you would have done a better job, but you clearly have no idea what the circumstances were that the prosecution team was dealing with. This particular piece of evidence for example was attempted to be admitted but was denied by the judge for being "irrelevant to the case." The prosecution was fighting a court stacked against them and you would have had a hard time as well.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 102 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This fuck should be in jail.

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