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We Witnessed The Kenosha Shootings. Here’s What Really Happened


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2020 Aug 28, 12:45pm   528 views  5 comments

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Oh shit, I gotta go!” Richie McGinniss hangs up on me.

It’s not hard to spot the group of people clustered at a gas station. A car partially obscures the scene, but the bright lights of the boarded up business still highlight some members of the small crowd.

I start jogging toward the station, phone in hand, ready to record. Richie, our director of video, told me earlier on that phone call that he was following a group of armed individuals at the time. I remembered them – their arrival near the courthouse, the fights that had broken out with them earlier in the evening, how one member of the group seemed too nervous to be handling a weapon.

The scene there is chaotic – people yelling, shoving, making threats, then a crowd chasing a young man. Richie is already onsite and, as I’m heading to meet him, the moments leading up to the first shooting are already playing out. Richie sees the alleged shooter hurrying down the street, gun in one hand and fire extinguisher in the other, until he reaches a sort of corner in the parking lot of the gas station.

Meanwhile, I’m moving more rapidly toward the chaos. The key moments caught on video begin to come into focus for me, although I’m not close enough to make out specific faces yet. There’s a loud bang. I stop immediately – I didn’t grow up around guns. It sounds like a gunshot. I’m just not sure.

A few beats go by after the first shot – enough time for me to be able to get out my phone. As if on autopilot, I hit the record button.

Bang, bang. Three more gunshots? Four? They sound slightly different from the first. People sprint in every direction, screaming and running away from that little gas station on the corner.

“Were those gunshots?” I ask someone next to me.

“Yeah. Yeah. That was gunshots.”

Richie would later tell me that he saw what prompted the first shooting. A verbal fight escalated as the victim tried grabbing the alleged shooter’s rifle – twice. The second time, Richie told me, the victim came very close to getting his hand on the man’s gun, trying to grab it away from him. He may have actually made contact, but it’s unclear amid the mayhem. That’s when the shooter fired.

“I see the shooter run away, and then I run in to provide medical aid,” Richie tells me. “What I didn’t realize until afterwards is that the shooter ran around the car and stood behind me. I screamed at him to call 911, not realizing he was the shooter. He runs away moments later after pulling out his phone.”

We would find out later that the very first gunshot – the sound that appears to have prompted the shooter to turn around, that Richie recounted and that caused me to begin filming, was not from the man who has now been charged with first degree murder.

It came from an unknown gunman who fired a single shot into the air, according to video footage reviewed by The New York Times.
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The other man gets on the phone at some point and tells someone that he’s waiting outside of the hospital.

“A white supremacist just shot a bunch of innocent protesters,” we hear him say.

Julio and I look at each other with the same confused face. “What?” I think.

Earlier in the night, the supposedly “white supremacist” shooter had been rendering aid to protesters injured by the crowd control munitions that police fired.

The night before that, I spoke with three members of this crew that the shooter was a part of. They were protecting a local business and got into a heated argument with protesters who accused them of not being on their side.

One person in the armed crew, which calls itself “The Libertarians,” explained that they were on the same side. Richie even spoke to the shooter right before the incident. He asked why he was armed and standing in front of a business.

“So people are getting injured, and our job is to protect this business and part of my job is to also help people. If there’s somebody hurt, I’m running into harms way. That’s why I have my weapon, I need to protect myself, obviously,” he said.

“But I also have my med kit.”


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1   Ceffer   2020 Aug 28, 1:26pm  

We aren't interested in what really happened. What we want is a convincing fabrication that exonerates looting, shooting, burning protesters.

When you come up with that, get back in touch and we'll call CNN.
2   Tenpoundbass   2020 Aug 28, 2:41pm  

Eric Holder says
how one member of the group seemed too nervous to be handling a weapon.


That kid could train most of America's Liberal Arts Majors working in Liberal City's Police Departments.
3   Eric Holder   2020 Aug 28, 3:04pm  

Tenpoundbass says
Eric Holder says
how one member of the group seemed too nervous to be handling a weapon.


That kid could train most of America's Liberal Arts Majors working in Liberal City's Police Departments.


I don't think the jorno necessary implies that it was Kyle who "seemed nervous". He doesn't look nervous on the video.
4   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Aug 28, 3:11pm  

Eric Holder says
Richie would later tell me that he saw what prompted the first shooting. A verbal fight escalated as the victim tried grabbing the alleged shooter’s rifle – twice. The second time, Richie told me, the victim came very close to getting his hand on the man’s gun, trying to grab it away from him. He may have actually made contact, but it’s unclear amid the mayhem. That’s when the shooter fired.
If an enraged maniac is chasing you for a block, throws something at you, yelling at you, and he charges up to you and tries to grab your weapon, twice, if he succeeds, there is going to be a struggle for control of the weapon. Somebody may get shot, and it might be you. You are clearly being threatened, and you clearly may be killed. Defending yourself is a prudent action.
5   Tenpoundbass   2020 Aug 28, 3:28pm  

This is the actual account as it went down and he was actually there.

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298839097923063809

In the hours before the shooting incident,
all interviewed Rittenhouse, who said he was protecting a local vehicle dealership together with several other armed men. He also offers medical assistance to protesters.

Rittenhouse is around that area in most of the footage we reviewed. About 15 minutes before the first shooting, police drive past Rittenhouse, and thank the group he’s with. “We appreciate you guys, we really do,” they broadcast through the speakers of their armored vehicles.

Rittenhouse walks up to a police vehicle with his rifle slung and talks with officers. One tosses a water bottle to the armed men, as seen in
@KristanTHarris
's livestream.

Rittenhouse eventually leaves the dealership (https://google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B034'54.2%22N+87%C2%B049'18.9%22W/@42.5817316,-87.8228231,353m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d42.5817301!4d-87.8219156) and is barred by the police from returning, as seen
@Ruptly
footage, six minutes before the shooting:



At 23:19, Rittenhouse is seen in this YouTube livestream. He's being chased into a parking lot. While he is being pursued, an unknown gunman fires the first shot into the air.

The muzzle flash of the first shot by the unknown gunman and the smoke rising from the handgun can be seen in this video capturing the first shooting from a different angle.

Rittenhouse turns toward the sound of the gunfire as another pursuer lunges toward him. He then fires four times with his assault rifle, and appears to shoot the man in the head.

It’s unclear why Rittenhouse was being chased or why he was in the area of this car dealership about four blocks away from the one he claimed to be protecting. We do know vehicles in this lot were damaged minutes before the first shooting.

The initial shot and Rittenhouse’s four subsequent discharges of his AR-15-style weapon are followed by three more shots in the parking lot — we don’t know who fired them. Rittenhouse seems to make a phone call and then flees the scene.

While fleeing from the scene, Rittenhouse is again chased by several people. He trips and falls to the ground and fires four shots as three people rush him. One person appears to be hit in the chest, while another, who is carrying a handgun, is hit in the arm.

At the same time, we hear at least 8 gunshots from farther away. Mr. Rittenhouse gets up and begins walking north from the scene, and 8 more gunshots are heard from closer range. It’s unclear who fired the other gunshots.

Police vehicles just one block away remain stationary during the gunfire. Rittenhouse walks with his hands up toward the police, as bystanders call out that he was involved in the shooting. The police drive by him to the scene of the shootings, without stopping.

Look at 5.56 wound close range...would the same rifle leave a small head wound with Rittenhouse that close?
A man lays dying on the ground...

Even if you are unable to help, this should not be the crowd’s response—shoving phone cameras in his face...

It appears the Soros opperative earned his money. The tall guy in this clip at 49 seconds in, with the black beanie on, has a gun in his hand. This is the tall guy chasing behind Kyle and the first dude that got shot. He's firing in the air, to instigate someone getting shot.




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