Anonymous wrote:This pretty much dispels the stuff on the Rittenhouse thread that "if Kyle were black he would have been shot dead" narrative.

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Anonymous wrote:This seems more like a Florida stand your ground case where the victim is dead so all the evidence is what the shooter tells police.

The victim is not dead.

And the shooter is out on bail

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This seems more like a Florida stand your ground case where the victim is dead so all the evidence is what the shooter tells police.

The victim is not dead.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Significant differences? What are the similarities? Just looking at the preliminary reports and this incident doesn't appear to bear any similarities to the Rittenhouse case at all.

You don't see any similarities? How about:

1) Both Rittenhouse and this guy had verbal altercations and displayed weapons;
2) Both Rittenhouse and this guy felt threatened by the person with whom they had an altercation;
3) Both Rittenhouse and this guy shot in self defense.

Of course there is one difference. This guy promptly called police and waited for them to arrive while Rittenhouse ran home to Illinois.

Rittenhouse testified that after he shot Grosskreutz he approached a line of police vehicles with his hands up.

“People were screaming and I’m just trying to get to the police,” he said. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I defended myself.”

He walked up to a squad car and told an officer he had just shot somebody. “The officer said ‘get the (expletive) back or you’re going to be pepper sprayed’ and ‘go home, go home, go home,’” he said.

He turned himself in at the Antioch Police Department about an hour later because the Kenosha station was barricaded, he said. He said officers made him sit on a chair and wait for Kenosha detectives to arrive.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Significant differences? What are the similarities? Just looking at the preliminary reports and this incident doesn't appear to bear any similarities to the Rittenhouse case at all.

You don't see any similarities? How about:

1) Both Rittenhouse and this guy had verbal altercations and displayed weapons;
2) Both Rittenhouse and this guy felt threatened by the person with whom they had an altercation;
3) Both Rittenhouse and this guy shot in self defense.

Of course there is one difference. This guy promptly called police and waited for them to arrive while Rittenhouse ran home to Illinois.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Significant differences? What are the similarities? Just looking at the preliminary reports and this incident doesn't appear to bear any similarities to the Rittenhouse case at all.

You don't see any similarities? How about:

1) Both Rittenhouse and this guy had verbal altercations and displayed weapons;
2) Both Rittenhouse and this guy felt threatened by the person with whom they had an altercation;
3) Both Rittenhouse and this guy shot in self defense.

Of course there is one difference. This guy promptly called police and waited for them to arrive while Rittenhouse ran home to Illinois.

At a high enough level of generality, all altercations leading to violence are going to bear some similarity. Before resorting to force, Rittenhouse was quite literally chased down by a violent lunatic who then lunged for his weapon. This guy appears to have pulled a weapon and fired simply to resolve a confrontation in a grocery store. The validity of his self-defense claim needs to be weighed against the facts, which are still largely unknown. I'm not viewing this as a self-defense case just because he uttered the words "self defense" to the responding officers.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t get to just shoot someone, who is unarmed, because they look like they are about to take a swing at you. This man is going to prison.

In the US, apparently you do in some situations.

Oh brother. This is entirely different from Rittenhouse case. Rittenhouse was threatened by felons brandishing illegal weapons, threatening him verbally and chasing him as well as being bashed over the head with a skateboard. This sounds like someone with a gun and an impulse control problem.

Did he have a license for that gun, I wonder? Or a previous criminal record?

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Significant differences? What are the similarities? Just looking at the preliminary reports and this incident doesn't appear to bear any similarities to the Rittenhouse case at all.

You don't see any similarities? How about:

1) Both Rittenhouse and this guy had verbal altercations and displayed weapons;
2) Both Rittenhouse and this guy felt threatened by the person with whom they had an altercation;
3) Both Rittenhouse and this guy shot in self defense.

Of course there is one difference. This guy promptly called police and waited for them to arrive while Rittenhouse ran home to Illinois.

Anonymous wrote:
Significant differences? What are the similarities? Just looking at the preliminary reports and this incident doesn't appear to bear any similarities to the Rittenhouse case at all.

jsteele wrote:I just saw this in my Twitter feed:

Are there any significant differences between this and the Rittenhouse case?

Anonymous wrote:The video will tell all. But as described, seems the shooter will be held accountable.

Pending further evidence, I’m not so sure of the Rittenhouse comparison.