Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, IL, was charged with murder and five other charges relating to the killings of two individuals in Kenosha, Wi. Rittenhouse shot two protestors in Kenosha, Wi last week after they had attacked him with a skateboard and threw rocks at him.

Rittenhouse should not be charged with murder, as he acted in lawful self-defense. 

All of the rioters he shot, were the ones that assaulted him. The video, clearly shows the individuals attempting to assault Rittenhouse, throwing objects at him, chasing him, and trying to assault him while he was on the ground. As Rittenhouse was running away, he tripped and fell, that’s when the rioters took the chance to assault him. 

One of the rioters shot had pulled a handgun on Rittenhouse. Before the video started, Rittenhouse put out a fire that the rioters had started in a dumpster and were attempting to push into a police car.

After the shooting, Rittenhouse turned himself in to the police in his hometown of Antioch, Ill., 30 minutes away from Kenosha. The fact that he turned himself in, shows that he was acting in clear and honest self-defense. Would a murderer willingly turn himself into the police? 

There have been significant donations to Rittenhouse and his family, to help with the legal fees and his defense. $368,717 has been raised for the Rittenhouse family so far, and more donations are coming in by the minute.

Rittenhouse’s attorney, L. Lin Wood, argues that Rittenhouse was justified in his self-defense case. “Kyle did nothing wrong,” Wood said. “He exercised his God-given, Constitutional, common law and statutory law right to self-defense.”

Rittenhouse was seen the day before cleaning graffiti off of walls and was a self-proclaimed “Blue Lives Matter,” and police supporter. Two hours before the shooting, he was interviewed at the gas station. He claimed that protecting the gas station was his job. Doesn’t protecting a local business seem admirable?