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‘I believed things he told me that I now understand to be … lies,’ Dave Hancock says in new Rittenhouse documentary
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 Chicago 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”.
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Wait, you mean the guy everyone was saying went to Kenosha to murder people, actually went to Kenosha to murder people?!?!?! Color me shocked.
Only idiots and the mentally deficient bought his official story.
Oh imagine that everybody with a brain was right all along and some f****** lunatic murderer got off again great job America
My only weakness was not being cynical enough.
I always knew he was a piece of shit because of how white he is and how much support fox gave him. – cynical man
What do you mean by “how white he is”? Why do we keep injecting race into everything.
Imagine someone commented about “how black he is”
you take it out of context. white as in “pumpkin spice latte”.
that psychopath was the definition of “angry racist white dude with a gun”.
on top of it all, the crime was racially motivated because he showed up to a BLM protest with an assault gun.
if he had been there to support the protest, he would have come unarmed. but he didn’t, did he? he went there to murder innocent civilians.
In another text, Rittenhouse sent: “I wish they would come into my house,” adding, “I will fucking murder them.”
in summary, he is a white racist irredeemable piece of shit that deserves life in prison where he can be a nice prison wife, because even the Nazis in prison would make him their weak ass bitch.
Little pudding faced cunt.
Is puberty ever gonna hit that man?
Wait you mean when he grabbed a rifle and traveled an inordinate distance to the scene of a riot and shot two people to death, he wasn’t just an innocent bystander after all?
He deliberately sought out an altercation and he deliberately brought his gun.
They should have waited to prosecute. He would have lost today.
That seems like it would violate the sixth amendment. Besides, we knew all of this back then.
I know of some individuals who have been sitting in jail, waiting for a trial, for longer than the maximum sentence they could have been given. If you are poor and/or live in a shitty area, your ‘rights’ don’t always mean all that much.
No, you have a right to a speedy trial. You don’t have the right to be charged with a crime in a speedy way while evidence is gathered against you.
Sometimes we should wait for them to incriminate themselves.
Yes you fucking do.
You cannot be arrested without charge and detained indefinitely. Generally it’s between 24 and 72 hours before they’re required to charge you or release you.
Incorrect.
Jesus, how was Rittenhouse murdering those guys only four years ago? It feels like it was at least ten.
We’re all aging like US presidents now
Fascism does that to you
The last 8 years have gone by in what feels like months.
Let’s not forget how the judge in that case dismissed video evidence of him saying he wanted to shoot people. If that didn’t change this assholes mind-
Remember the video of him getting into a fight with some teenage girl just a few days before he killed those people? The video they wouldn’t let the jury see because it might show that Rittenhouse was an escalation-seeking rage-aholic? The video that his spokesperson has definitely seen?
Yeah, he was never disillusioned. He knew who this bastard was all along. He just stopped making money off the kid, is all.
He is saying it now because that “turns” the documentary from “supporters” into a documentary from “critics”. That helps sales. And now the news coverage is pulling attention to it again and of course, that is good for the sales/views.
So I disagree about the stopping to make money with him part, he is milking the other side now.
Imagine being such a bootlicker that you want to kill people for property crime, even when that property isn’t yours. What a loser.
He just wanted to kill people. That they were black made it more attractive, and the property crime was a convenient excuse.
Someone should end Kyle before he kills again.
Why is this waste of space still in the news? And a documentary? Seriously? Can we please ignore him going forward and let him be forgotten, unimportant and inconsequential in a hole, like this litte rat deserves?
Unfortunately, he is very consequential. If you went to an NRA self-defense shooting instructor in 2019 and laid out everything Rittenhouse did, and then asked if that was valid self defense, the answer would be unequivocally no. What Rittenhouse found was an argument for shooting protestors and getting away with it.
That’s scary, because if you spend much time around gun shows and gun clubs, you’ll meet plenty of people who are clearly looking for an excuse to shoot somebody with a legal loophole.
The judge created the legal precedent for the loophole.
The greater evil behind it all is a situation where a Blackwater type organization is paid for security and people protest, then they open fire and start killing. They can all use the Rittenhouse defense and get away with it.
Hey, he just wants to kill some more people. No big deal right?
checks rulebook
My mistake, murdering shoplifters is actually still kind of a big no-no. Apologies.
he had sent text messages pledging to “fucking murder” shoplifters outside a Chicago pharmacy before later shooting two people to death during racial justice protests in Wisconsin in 2020.
That was before he went to Kenosha.
And honestly, we all knew he did it on porpouse. This is nothing new. Blowing this up and giving it more attention just furthers the right’s hero worship of him.
More attention makes it worse. It makes him an Icon and martyr for the white supremacists.
Premeditation and intent. How is this weasely fuck not in prison for life.
The insidious nature of systemic racism is why. White men are given the widest possible berth to acquire weapons and play vigilante. As we saw here, a white guy who talks about murdering people can, over and over, put himself into dangerous situations until he gets the opportunity to kill and get away with it. This isn’t even the only example in the last five years.
Usually the situation they put themselves in is taking a job as a cop and refusing to deescalate any situation.
I’m honestly surprised this little shit hasn’t become a cop yet.
He was banned from trying to join any branch of the military because he did so poorly on the ASVAB (and probably also failed a psych eval). While many police departments are deeply corrupt, I don’t think any of them want the bad press that would come with hiring him. Maybe he can get hired as a deputy in a sheriff’s department run by someone like Arpaio.
Because the prosecutor threw the case.
The judge did his part too.
Really? They put a rule against murder in the book? Is that new? No? Well then they should tell people that! How are we supposed to know not to kill people if they don’t tell us that’s against the rules!?
depends on if you’re white and if you can cry on demand (about the punishment)
People on the right still believe he was defending himself or just a kid or whatever whatever. This news shows that it was totally planned, that he willingly put himself in harms way to murder people like he was judge, jury, and executioner over some shoplifting.
It’s important that we go “oh look, he really is, undeniably, a rotten piece of filth” and can throw out all these notions of “well-intentioned” people who end up killing people like this.
For one thing, whether or not you or I like it, he’s a right-wing darling and he needs to stop being one.
And that’s exactly why we shouldn’t give him attention and media space.
He is a “right-wing darling” because of articles and documentaries like that. He is triggering a negative reaction from the other side and that’s why he’s hailed a hero by the right.
More attention makes it worse.
If we do not give him attention, they still will. All you are doing is not letting people know who they think is praiseworthy. I don’t see that as helpful.
You do not get to control who the right idolizes. All you can hope to do is shave some of them off by explaining why those people should not be idolized.
Why people who have gone through all of childhood haven’t found out that ignoring bullies doesn’t actually make them go away is beyond me.
One of the differences between the right and the left, you just made me realize, is how we treat heroes.
Kyle murders two protestors and he’s a hero. He can fuck it up, but that’s all it takes to get there.
If a left leaning person became a hero for rescuing cats out of a house fire, you’d have a hundred reporters digging up dirt about how he cuts in line at Starbucks, or an ex coworker thought his obsession with cute animal butts was a little creepy.
I’m minimizing. People who do good things sometimes have done real shit but I don’t want to sidetrack. Point is, the right elevates their heroes while the left humanizes them. It’s not just a different playing field, it’s a whole other sport.
Well, he already got himself cancelled once over President Convict’s 2nd Amendment bonafides. Maybe he’ll do it again and it’ll stick this time.
I only take issue with you implying rats are bad. They wonderful smart little creatures, cleaner than your family dog, and would never cross state lines armed to kill protestors because they psychotic. Although they may bite your finger mistaking it for food. And damn can their little teeth hurt.
Let everyone know about his actions. The more people who don’t like him - the better.
Rittenhouse has a hero complex, and can’t accept he’s nothing more than a deranged little shithead everyone knows is just a murderer that got away with it.
No one likes him, not even the right. The right used him when he was useful and then threw him away. How sad and pathetic that those were his “best” days, and they are behind him.
He’ll now try to regain his “glory” days by reliving that time he murdered innocent people. And hopefully this time he’s put away for life.
He’s like JD Vance Jr
Nah, hopefully this time he bites off more than he can chew and the most that the prosecutor is able to charge his next victim with is self defense or involuntary manslaughter.
I’ll just cry like a little bitch in court again. It worked last time!
I hope he dies a bloody death
Gow dare you talk like this about a future congress man/president.
I wish an even more tragic fate. I hope he gets to live in a world filled with tolerance and empathy while he wallows away in hate and fear.
I hope he gets the George Zimmerman treatment, broke, wasting his time with frivolous lawsuits, and mostly forgotten
I wish him a life of obscurity, poverty, and extreme loneliness. May he achieve nothing and be just smart enough to realize what a waste his entire existence has been.
Well shit, that happened to me without shooting anybody
I wish for you to find a fun thing, be it playing guitar, drawing silly comics, or making obscure art. You need not create for anyone but yourself.
I’d rather find a large pot of gold but not bad advice. I should pick up the guitar again. Everyone thanked me for not creating music for them so it will be for myself.
I do the same with my guitar. Have a bunch of little songs and riffs, save them all on my PC. No one will ever hear them or hear me play guitar, just do it as a creative outlet for myself.
Played probably 90 minutes last night with my headphones on, was a great decompression.
No, he’s a hazard to others and belongs in a cage.
Okay but can he at least wallow with broken legs?
As long as it’s slow and painful, bloodless would be OK too.
I hope his kids treat him like he treats the world.
He would have, if he didn’t have his rifle on him.
Doubt. No way he would be out there without his rifle. The man’s a coward, he can’t even face the consequences of his actions.
