Less than two days after the shootout during protests over the shooting of black Jacob Blake, police detained a 17-year-old Illinois man. The AP describes him as a “police admirer” from the town of Antioch, located in Illinois, about 25 kilometers from the Wisconsin city of Kenosha. According to Wisconsin State Representative Mandela Barnes, the young man “decided to take matters into his own hands and shoot innocent protesters.”
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For such a takeover of his fate, he was extradited to him by the Wisconsin authorities arrest warrant, according to which Kyle Rittenhouse is accused of first-degree murder. He is now awaiting custody in Lake County to hear about his release from Illinois to Wisconsin. Kyle Rittenhouse faces suspicion of shooting two protesters and injuring one. If his guilt is proven, he faces life.
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Kenosha police chief Daniel Miskinis confirmed that the man “was ready to use a firearm in a conflict on the spot.” He did not say what led him to shoot or any details about how it happened.
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Two people between the ages of 26 and 36 died during the fatal protests, and another was seriously injured. Several witness videos pointed to a person with a large weapon. That should be Kyle. According to the police, firearms are a young man’s hobby, they also understand them thanks to their participation in the police program for young cadets. Training program for cadets for public safety describe its website as an opportunity for young people to explore law enforcement careers through “practical career activities” such as driving with patrol training officers and firearms.
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Due to the age of the suspect, the ministry did not provide more details. His social networks revealed much more about the young shooter.
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The suspect in the fatal shooting of two people during a night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is a former member of a youth police cadet program with an affinity for guns, according to police and online profiles. https://t.co/gVXP4CjoGV
— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2020
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A young man with a passion for firearms, he is a supporter of the police and an admirer of Donald Trump. His participation in the demonstration is evidenced by a video from Snapchat shot from the perspective of a man holding a long gun, and a police report can be heard. According to other videos on TikTok, the young man took part in a target shooting exercise and a pre-election public meeting with Donald Trump, where he stood in the front row.
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Speaking that a shooter accused of killing at least one person in Wisconsin allegedly took part in the Trump events, the president’s adviser, Kellyanne Conway, said, “The White House is not responsible for the privacy practices of these people.”
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CNN uses BuzzFeed News’s piece as blueprint for a minute-long report about the accused Kenosha shooter — no credit. Cable news!https://t.co/E7zdUydzu9
– Tom Namako (@TomNamako) August 27, 2020
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On his now deleted Facebook profile, Rittenhouse was photographed with rifles and the commentary “Blue Lives Matter”. Almost all of his public Facebook posts related to the movement. Prior to Tuesday’s incident, he was to have access to at least two different types of weapons.
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Rittenhouse’s already deleted profile on TikTok.
Rittenhouse also boasted of Blue Lives Matter on his Facebook. On his birthday two years ago, he organized a fundraiser for a non-profit organization called Humanizing the Badge, which he commented on by seeking to “build stronger relationships with law enforcement.”
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Blue Lives Matter
The Blue Lives Matter is the opposite of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. He advocates that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing police officers be tried under hate laws. The Blue Lives Matter dates back to December 20, 2014, when NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were killed in Brooklyn, New York.
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Mass police protests erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after a police officer shot several times in the back of an apparently unarmed dark-skinned man. US President Donald Trump sent a thousand members of the National Guard and over two hundred members of the federal security forces to the scene. “We will not support looting, arson, violence and injustice on the streets of America,” the president wrote on Twitter.
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In protest against the shooting of Blake and other similar cases, a number of American athletes have decided to boycott the matches. Milwaukee basketball players, for example, did not play in the NBA playoffs. Several other NBA duels were postponed due to this. Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka also resigned from the tournament in New York in protest.
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The policeman caused an injury to a young man, due to which, according to his loved ones, he is paralyzed from the waist down and may never walk again.
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