Category: Self Defense

A man who was shot in South Milwaukee is facing felony charges. Police say the shooter acted in self-defense.

The 23-year-old man shot in the leg in South Milwaukee is facing three felony bail jumping charges.

The 22-year-old woman who police say shot the man is not facing charges.

“She was not charged based on self-defense issues,” said South Milwaukee Police Chief Bill Jessup.

Theoplis McClain of Milwaukee was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with three counts of felony bail jumping, with domestic abuse assessments as a domestic abuse repeater and habitual criminality repeater, South Milwaukee Police said.

If convicted, McClain could face fines up to about $30,000 and decades behind bars, according to a criminal complaint.

The shooting occurred in the 1800 block of Rawson Avenue around 2:50 p.m., Nov. 2. At the time, Jessup called the shooting a “domestic incident” and said the man was treated for the wound and released.

According to the criminal complaint:

The 22-year-old woman was speaking with someone on the phone when she arrived at her apartment. That person told police she’d mentioned being afraid to go home because McClain could be waiting there.

The person on the call with the 22-year-old told police she heard the woman ask someone why they were at her house. She also heard a man, McClain, say he was there to get his things. The woman told him she would get his stuff and bring it down, but McClain seemed to get upset.

The person on the line said McClain and the woman began to “tussle” and she heard the 22-year-old tell him “don’t come close to me, don’t come close to me.”

Soon after, the caller said they heard McClain yell he was shot, and the phone cut off.

McClain admitted he was at the home of his ex-girlfriend and said either she or her new boyfriend shot him.

McClain has numerous open felony cases in Milwaukee County, including one for fleeing an officer and another for discharging a firearm at the woman involved in the South Milwaukee case. As part of these cases, he was not to have contact with her nor be within 500 feet of her home.

McClain was convicted in May 2021 of felony bail jumping in Brown County where he was also convicted of two domestic abuse crimes against the same woman in the latest case.

McClain is prohibited from possessing a firearm.

Homeowner shoots, wounds alleged intruder in Baxter (Springs Kansas)

An alleged intruder is in custody after a homeowner in southeast Kansas says he was forced to shoot him after he broke into his home Monday night. Read the full press release below:

On Monday night at 8:42 pm, Officers of the Baxter Springs Police Department responded to 2305 Cleveland Avenue to a report of a person breaking in to the residence.

Officers were advised on the way to the scene that one adult male had been shot. Also responding were Deputies from the Cherokee Count Sheriffs Office and the Quapaw Marshal’s Service.

The first subject encountered was identified as Shawn James Tallant Jr. of Baxter Springs. Tallant was leaving the area when officers approached and observed that he was suffering from two gunshot wounds to the thigh and leg. He was detained and an ambulance was dispatched.

The occupants of the home came outside voluntarily without incident. Detectives were on scene to conduct interviews both there and later at the Police Department. It was alleged by the occupants, identified as Braden Matthew Coe and Leslie Cantrell, that Tallant had invaded their home and assaulted them. They stated there were two juveniles in the home also at the time of the invasion.

They barricaded themselves and the children in a bedroom and when Tallant continued towards them. Coe fired several shots, striking Tallant twice. One in the thigh and another round in the calf. Officers seized a 9mm handgun from the scene.

In response to the statements given by the home owners and evidence collected at the scene, Shawn James Tallant Jr. was charged with Aggravated Burglary, Aggravated Assault and Criminal Damage to Property.

Tallant was placed under arrest on scene and was transported to an area hospital where he remains at this time in good condition. When released from the hospital, Tallant will face extradition to Cherokee County regarding the above charges.

No other subjects have been charged at this time. however that could change as the investigation continues.

All are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Homeowner Shoots Intruder Inside Holmesburg Home

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A homeowner opened fire on an intruder in Holmesburg on Sunday night, police say. The shooting happened around 11 p.m. on the 4700 block of Ashville Street.

Philadelphia Police: Homeowner Shoots Intruder Inside Holmesburg Home

Police say they arrived to find a 31-year-old suspect shot in the face in the basement.

He was taken to the hospital, where he’s listed in critical condition.

Woman With Concealed Carry Permit Shoots At Would-Be Armed Carjacker In Roseland

CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman fought back and fired her own gun when a would-be carjacker pointed a gun at her outside a bank in Roseland on Monday afternoon.

The woman fired at the carjacker when he approached her at gunpoint just as she was getting into her car in the parking lot of the Chase Bank at 10260 S. Michigan Ave.

Hours later, a bullet casing from the shots the woman fired remained lying on the ground. The woman said she had just left the bank and had some cash in her hand – but before she could get to her car, parked a few feet from the front door of the bank – she said someone else opened her front door and a gun was aimed at her head.

“Thank God I had my gun, or I’d probably be dead right now,” the woman said.

The woman expressed raw emotions as she reflected on how her quick run to the bank left her heart racing.

“I had just come out of the bank and was sitting in my car about to lock my door to pull off in leave, and he opened my door and put a gun in my face,” the woman said.

The thief was not expecting the woman, wh0o has a concealed carry license, to pull her gun out.

“And when he saw me get mine, he looked surprised – and I started shooting, and he started running,” she said. “He ran.”

The woman does not recall how many times she fired.

“Hell no – just started busting,” she said.

The woman also does not know if she struck the would-be carjacker, but she knows the shots were at very close range. She reversed her Nissan Versa, and pulled up right outside the Chase Bank – then ran inside for help.

The woman hopes the next person thinking of carjacking anyone realizes they may not be the only ones with a weapon.

“I pray every night that I don’t have to shoot nobody, but if I have to, then I’m prepared and ready,” the woman said. “So God, I was ready.”

It was still unclear late Monday if any of the woman’s shots hit the would-be carjacker or carjackers, but we do know Chicago Police were checking with area hospitals to see if someone walks in with gunshot wound.

Police are also reviewing surveillance video.

Meanwhile, we do know the woman thankfully was home late Monday – and she is crediting her concealed carry licensed for allowing her to get home safely.

Casper man shoots person trying to forcefully enter a home

ACasper man shot a person who was attempting to forcefully enter a home in Cheyenne, police there said.

The man who was shot fled the scene. Officers later found him at a Motel 6 in Cheyenne, suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. He was taken by ambulance to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center.

The shooting occurred at about 9:30 p.m. Friday at a home on the 3800 block of Greenway Street on the city’s east side. Police were told a 51-year-old man from Cheyenne tried to force his way inside a home through the front door.

The Casper man, identified only as a 33-year-old, ordered the suspect to leave several times, police said. The 51-year-old man, whose name was not released, refused to comply, and when he continued to try and force his way inside, the Casper man retrieved a gun and shot through the door.

That, police said, prompted the suspect to flee. Authorities did not detail his injuries or condition.

The case remains under investigation, police said.

‘A word to the wise should be sufficient‘. This is a standard practice of all parties; That of carrying a legal ‘non provocative- plausibly innocuous’ item for use as a weapon. Of course, we now have a court case where the jury recognized that a skateboard was used as a weapon capable of inflicting death of serious injury, so that knowledge could prove valuable.

Antifa Appears To Have A History Of Using Skateboards As Weapons

LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 31: A man attempts to break the window of a store with a skateboard during widespread protests and unrest in response to the death of George Floyd on May 31, 2020 in Santa Monica, California. Protests continue in cities throughout the country after Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis. The National Guard has been deployed in Los Angeles and other major US cities to attempt to stem the tide of rising violence and unrest, with President Donald Trump blaming ANTIFA and tweeting they will be designated a terrorist organization. (Photo by Warrick Page/Getty Images)

Far-left groups such as antifa appear to use skateboards as tools of destruction, videos captured at protests and riots show.

Anthony Huber, one of the men fatally shot by Kyle Rittenhouse during the 2020 riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, had gained attention for the use of his skateboard to attack Rittenhouse.

Skateboards have also been used to violently smash through windows or to assault police officers.

Skaters appear to have a history of participating in protests a well as utilizing the slogan “skate and destroy” to summarize their involvement in protest culture, according to a blog post from skater magazine Jenkem.

“Things are replaceable; life is not. No building nor brand no matter how luxurious should be valued at anything even approximating a human’s life, no matter what human,” the article said.

In the post, titled “A Skater’s Guide To Attending A Protest,” the writers break down the approach and necessary supplies needed for attending a protest. One of the tools they specifically mention is a skateboard, explaining how “it’s pretty cool how many uses a skateboard can have in a protest.”

Skateboards allow protesters to write protest slogans on the grip, and can be used as a “tried and true device for quickly dipping out of tricky situations,” the article said. They are also effective in self-defense and can make a shield and even “if you get enough skaters on the frontline you can link together to form a phalanx on some gladiator kind of tip.”

Tri-Cities Walmart security guard and robbery suspect exchange gunfire in parking lot

An armed shoplifter and a security officer exchanged gunfire on Black Friday in the parking lot of the Kennewick Walmart, sending fearful shoppers and employees running for safety.

Robbery suspect Alexander Richard Yell, 31, was the only one wounded after reportedly being shot two to three times at close range, according to initial broadcast reports.

Yell, who has a long history of troubles with police, was apparently bleeding from his arm and leg when he drove away, showing up a few minutes later at a girlfriend’s home in Kennewick.

He was arrested soon after at her apartment and taken to the hospital before being booked at 8:25 p.m. in to the Benton County jail in Kennewick. Yell is being held on investigation of first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, illegal gun possession, second-degree burglary and 11 warrants for failing to comply with court orders in other cases, show Benton County jail records.

About seven hours earlier at 12:45 p.m., Yell was suspected of stealing some merchandise from the 2720 S. Quillan St. store, said Kennewick police. The security guard, known as a loss prevention officer, followed Yell into the south portion of the store’s crowded parking lot and Yell pulled out a gun, according to Kennewick police reports.

Police Lt. Jason Kiel said investigators later determined that Yell fired at least one round toward the security guard. The guard, who had a concealed gun carry permit, told police he pulled out his own gun and shot Yell two to three times at close range, according to dispatch broadcasts.  But Yell still managed to drive away.

About 30 minutes after the shooting, a woman called 911 to say her fiancé had shown up at her apartment with gunshot wounds and was bleeding from his arm and leg. Two children were with her in the apartment, and the fiancé was upset that she’d called 911, she told the dispatcher.

Officers negotiated with Yell for a few minutes before he came out of the apartment and was arrested about 1:30 p.m. on the 1700 block of West 5th Avenue in Kennewick. He was taken by ambulance to a Tri-Cities hospital and then, later, to jail. Kennewick detectives obtained a search warrant and searched the apartment, finding the gun used in the robbery, said Kiel.

 

Des Moines homeowner, police shoot armed suspects after report of robbery

DES MOINES, Wash. – Detectives are investigating a police shooting that left at least one person injured Sunday night in Des Moines. 

Around 8:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of suspicious circumstances in the 24000 block of 16th Avenue South.

Police said a woman reported that her home was being robbed.

When officers arrived, they encountered an armed suspect and officers opened fire.

The armed suspect that confronted the officers was taken to Harborview Medical Center and is expected to survive his injuries.

According to investigators, a second suspect was also involved in a shooting with the homeowner.

Police said two Des Moines Police Department officers were involved in the shooting.

The Valley Independent Investigative team (VIIT) is serving as the independent investigative team for this OIS. VIIT is a multi-agency team made up of investigators from seven south King County Police Departments (Auburn, Des Moines, Federal Way, Kent, Renton, Port of Seattle, and Tukwila). The Des Moines Police Department is exempt from this investigation since officers with the agency were involved.

Killadelphia Update

Last year, the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia was worse than Chicago. It takes a lot of effort to be worse than Chicago, but Philadelphia — a/k/a “Killadelphia” — is up to the challenge, and is now on pace to break the city’s all-time annual murder total of 500, a record set in 1990 at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. Basically, you could put police crime-scene tape around the entire city; every sidewalk in Philadelphia is covered in chalk outlines of slain victims.

OK, maybe I got a little carried away there, but it’s difficult to exaggerate how deadly conditions are in Philadelphia now:

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said on Monday that whoever was responsible for killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child as she was unloading gifts from her baby shower will face two counts of murder.
The victim, identified as Jessica Covington, 32, was shot 11 times in the head and belly on Saturday night in what police believe was a targeted shooting.

Deputy Police Commissioner Christine Coulter demanded that progressive DA Krasner take action amid a massive surge of gun violence.
‘Children are getting shot, unborn children getting shot, what is the city doing about this?’ she asked.

Police were said to be questioning a suspect in connection with Covington’s killing on Monday, but no arrests or charges have been announced as of late afternoon.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Krasner said Covington’s killing made him ‘sick.’ He said the person or persons who took the pregnant woman’s life and that of her unborn baby will ‘very likely’ face two counts of murder.
He praised police for ‘working nonstop and doing an amazing job with this case.’

Krasner has cut the number of prosecutions for gun crime and cops are blaming him for a huge spike in shootings a homicides.
Police in Philadelphia have made a record number of arrests for illegal gun possession this year – but the suspects’ chances of getting convicted dropped to 49 per cent from 63 per cent in 2017, analysis by the found.
There have been 491 homicide victims in 2021 – a 14 per cent increase from last year’s number of 436, and 283 in 2019.
Krasner boasts on his website that he has cut incarceration rates by 24,800 years, cut supervision by 102,400 years, never used the death penalty and helped exonerate 23 people.
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has said that Philadelphia’s criminal justice system has become a ‘revolving door’ for repeat gun offenders since Krasner was sworn into office in January 2018.

This is the problem with Democrats talking tough on gun control. You hear them talk about “getting guns off our streets,” but they don’t want to prosecute the people who are actually committing crimes with those guns — because all the criminals are Democrats.

Dana Pico at First Street Journal has been following the grisly “Killadelphia” death toll, and Ed Driscoll at Instapundit calls attention to the role of “progressive reforms” in the nationwide crime wave:

[Milwaukee County DA John] Chisholm, who was elected in 2007, supports deferrals for some misdemeanors and “low-level” felonies in order to cut down on incarcerations. And he’s taken credit for inspiring a new wave of prosecutors in cities like San Francisco, St. Louis, and Philadelphia who have enacted similar reforms. Chisholm congratulated San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin following his election in 2019, and the pair spoke at a forum earlier this year on the status of the progressive prosecutor movement.

Chisholm and other progressives support reforms to the cash-bail system, which they say criminalizes poverty. He has acknowledged that his reform-minded approach could put murderers back on the streets of Milwaukee.
“Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into [a] treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody?” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2007. “You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.”
The Milwaukee DA said his office recommended $1,000 bail for [Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell] Brooks following his arrest on Nov. 5 on charges that he punched his girlfriend in the face and hit her with his vehicle in a gas station parking lot. The woman is identified only by her initials in court papers, which indicate they have a child together. Brooks was also charged with eluding police officers when they arrived to take him into custody.

What Democrats don’t want to admit is that crime is a people problem. It is easy to focus on guns, but the inanimate object does not kill people. Democrats have trained their media allies to mindlessly repeat the phrase “gun violence,” but my guns are not involved in violence. My podcast partner John Hoge has a rather substantial arsenal of firearms, none of which has ever been involved in “gun violence.”

Rhetoric that demonizes law-abiding gun owners is necessary to the Democratic Party agenda of absolving themselves and their constituents of responsibility. Nothing that goes wrong in Philadelphia — or Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, etc. — is the fault of the people directly involved, because those people vote Democrat. The voters who elect Democrats must be held blameless for their problems, and the blame must be transferred to scapegoats — which is why phrases like “white privilege” and “systemic racism” have entered the political lexicon.

The kind of “reforms” implemented by Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner are aimed at ending the “racial injustice” of putting criminals in prison, as if there were something deliberately unfair about the demographic profile of the prison population, as if law enforcement and the court system were letting white criminals go unpunished. Well, where are all these white murderers in Philadelphia? What has Larry Krasner done to end the “white privilege” that lets these perpetrators get off scot-free?

These are rhetorical questions, obviously. The population of Philadelphia County is 44% black and 34% non-Hispanic white. Fifteen percent of the county population is Hispanic and 8% are Asian. But these other demographic groups are not implicated in the “gun violence” epidemic that has Philadelphia on pace to set a new homicide record.

In 2020, Joe Biden officially won Pennsylvania by a margin of 80,555 votes. He got 603,790 votes in Philadelphia County.

So the dishonest blame game will continue, and the bodies of homicide victims will keep piling up in “Killadelphia,” because Democrats like Larry Krasner don’t want to arrest the criminals whose votes elect them.

Celebrity crap-for-brains on display once more.

Warning; Obscene language

BLUF:
Basically guys, all the outrage over this trial is because the left is terrified of losing another tool in their toolbox. They love lawless mobs terrorizing you and wrecking your stuff. They love having you too scared of the system to stand up to their dirtbags.

FISKING ONE OF THE MANY DUMB HOT TAKES ON THE RITTENHOUSE CASE

In the aftermath of the Rittenhouse trial there are a bunch of posts like this floating around social media. They all work off the same talking points so they are basically interchangeable. These are all being shared to bamboozle the gullible and shore up the dedicated idiots. I picked this one because of how many lies and distortions it packed into one post.

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The Rittenhouse Trial Underscores the Left’s Determination to Eliminate the Natural Right of Self-Defense

The American left’s determination to conduct a media-inspired political trial of Kyle Rittenhouse had as its objective the ultimate disarming of Americans and the elimination of the Second Amendment.  While Kyle Rittenhouse was listed as the defendant, it was the right of self-defense that was on trial.

To what extent does man have a natural or God-given right to self-defense and protection of himself and his property?  This question has been bandied about for thousands of years and that issue, not guns (which are an instrument of self-defense), is at the heart of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The United States is the only nation in the annals of mankind to be established on the basis of a political and social philosophy centered on natural, or God-given, rights.
Among these are self-defense and property.  Property rights are the bedrock of the American political system; without that foundation, there is no freedom.

The Founders held that property rights encompass not just physical property but also one’s life, labor, speech, and livelihood, as individuals own their own lives; therefore, they must own the products of that life which can be traded in free exchange with others.  Further, as there is a natural right of self-preservation, man has the right and duty to defend himself against transgressors, including the state, that would deny, abrogate, or unlawfully seize his property.

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North Raleigh homeowner shoots person breaking into house

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A homeowner in North Raleigh shot someone breaking into his house Saturday afternoon, police said.

Officers responded to the shooting report around 1:50 p.m. along the 3500 block of Teravista Way. The neighborhood is off of Louisburg Road and north of Mitchel Mill and Ligon Mill roads.

Police said a man came home to find someone breaking into his house. The homeowner shot the break-in suspect in the leg in what police described as self-defense.

The person who was shot was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

 

Suspected intruder shot and killed in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS — A 60-year-old man shot and killed a suspect who he said was trying to break into his home in the College Hill neighborhood Friday night.

St. Louis police responded at 11 p.m. to a burglary call at a home on the 1500 block of E Grand Avenue. When they arrived, they found a man in his 20s lying on the back porch with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police have not released his identity.

The man who lived there told police he was inside when he heard the suspect at his backdoor. He said he then grabbed his gun and shot the man as he tried to climb through the kitchen window.

The homeowner was taken into custody, police said. A homicide investigation is underway.

That’s just how fast things can happen and just how fast and furious the response should be.

Uber driver shoots 2 during attempted robbery in Mayfair

 

MAYFAIR – Police say an Uber driver shot and killed and man and badly injured another during an attempted robbery overnight in Mayfair.

Investigators from the Philadelphia Police Department said a group of three armed men approached the driver as he was getting out of his car on the 3200 block of Longshore Avenue just after midnight Saturday.

The driver, who police say is licensed to carry a firearm, shot at least two of the alleged robbers several times and may have injured the third. The men, both in their 20s, were taken by responding officers to Jefferson-Torresdale Hospital where one died.

Investigators were unsure if the third alleged robber who fled from the scene was injured during the shooting.

Inspector DF Pace told reporters that the unnamed Uber driver remained at the scene of the shooting and described what happened to officers.

An update from the Philadelphia Police Department said an arrest was made and two weapons had been recovered.

No charges in deadly shooting in Casselton; case of self defense prosecutors decide

FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – The Cass County State’s Attorney’s Office has decided not to file criminal charges against a man who shot and killed a man in Casselton late last month.

Prosecutors decided they could not prove that 54-year-old Edwin Kester Jr. intended to kill 58-year-old Randell Burton in an apartment connected to Club 94, a bar and restaurant on October 18.

In a report obtained by KFGO News, prosecutors said, “under the totality of the circumstances, the State is unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Kester’s use of deadly force in self-defense and/or defense of others was unjustified.”

Under North Dakota law, an individual is justified in using deadly force to protect the life of themselves or others.

Burton broke into the apartment where his girlfriend was living. Kester was staying with the woman because she feared that Burton may try to hurt her.

The investigation determined that Burton had threatened the woman’s life days before the shooting and was arrested for terrorizing and domestic violence. He had been released from jail the day before the shooting and was under court order not to contact the woman.

Kester shot Burton in the chest with a handgun when he broke through two locked doors and was headed toward the woman’s bedroom. Kester called 911 shortly before 2:00 a.m. Burton later died at the hospital.

Employee reportedly shoots suspects in armed robbery at cannabis store in Spanaway

SPANAWAY, Wash. – Two teens were shot Thursday night during an alleged armed robbery at a cannabis store in Spanaway.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office says a store employee called 911 around 9:30 p.m. to say that their business, Blessings Cannabis, had been robbed by four or five males with guns who were wearing hooded jackets and masks.

The employees told deputies that the suspects pointed guns at them while they stole money and marijuana. At one point, an employee retrieved a gun and shot at the suspects.

A short while later, two 19-year-olds showed up at a local hospital with gunshot wounds. They were arrested and booked into jail for robbery in the first degree, the sheriff’s office says.

The investigation is ongoing and the search for the other suspects continues. Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff’s office.

Facts over feelings in Kyle Rittenhouse verdict: He was acting in self-defense.

When Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and injured Gaige Grosskreutz, he was acting in self-defense. So says a jury from Kenosha, Wis., and their verdict is correct because that’s what the facts showed. But facts don’t always line up with feelings.

The trial started out on a sour note when Judge Bruce Schroeder blocked prosecutors from referring to the victims as “victims” — but allowed the defense to call them “rioters,” “looters,” and “arsonists.” Some said this was the judge being biased, but judges routinely impose restrictions on prosecutors that aren’t imposed on defense attorneys. And judges regularly ban the word “victim” in many jurisdictions, including in Massachusetts, disproportionately so in rape cases.

Banning words is silly, and sometimes unconstitutional, but judges have been doing it a lot since the idiot judge in the Kobe Bryant case notoriously ordered everyone in the case not to use the word “victim” when talking about the woman Bryant attacked. (Where was the outrage for that victim?)

Defense attorneys say the word “victim” is unfair because it presumes guilt. But if that were true, the word “witness” would be banned, too, because it presumes that a person actually saw what they say they saw. It’s all nonsense. If there is a legitimate concern about a word, the judge can instruct the jury not to use it unfairly.

The same people who complained about the word “victim” being banned in Rittenhouse’s case didn’t care about the five child “victims” Rosenbaum was convicted of raping. This evidence would have been admissible against Rosenbaum under Massachusetts law, even though it’s not relevant, but those who supported the prosecution said it was unfair even for the media to mention it. They should remember this the next time a defense attorney tries to use a rape victim’s past against her.

While the defense demonized Rittenhouse’s victims, the prosecution did the same to Rittenhouse by suggesting that he went to Kenosha with an assault weapon because he was planning to kill people. Rittenhouse said he wanted to help protect the public after riots broke out when police shot a black man named Jacob Blake seven times — hitting him in the back four times. Cops were cleared of wrongdoing, but people were upset because Blake was shot only a few months after George Floyd was killed.

Prosecutors said Rittenhouse was guilty of murder because he was the aggressor, but video evidence showed that Rittenhouse was leaving the area before he shot any bullets, and that he only started shooting when Rosenbaum and others started chasing him. Rosenbaum lunged at Rittenhouse and grabbed his gun. Rittenhouse said he shot Rosenbaum to stop him.

Video evidence also showed that Rittenhouse shot Huber only after Huber started hitting him in the head — and tried to take his gun.

Grosskreutz, who was armed, also put his hand on Rittenhouse’s gun before he was shot.

The prosecution claimed Rittenhouse provoked his victims by openly carrying a large weapon, and that this nullified any self-defense claim, but video evidence showed the victims were also provoking Rittenhouse. Provocation does not justify murder, but it does bolster Rittenhouse’s claim that he was acting in self-defense.

To assert a valid self-defense claim in a murder case, evidence must show that the defendant “exhausted all reasonable means to avoid killing someone.” Once that evidence is presented, however weak it is, the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense. The prosecution had no hope of meeting that burden in this case. It’s not that the victims deserved to be shot, it’s that the law permits jurors to find defendants not guilty if they kill in response to a threat of death or serious bodily harm.

It was a highly emotional case, with strong feelings on both sides. The defense says it was a big political farce, and that Rittenhouse never should have been charged. The prosecution says Rittenhouse had no business bringing a rifle to a riot, and that he is responsible for the violence that followed.

Both sides are a little bit right.

[No they aren’t, but I think this is just the author trying to salve his butthurt at having to acknowledge fact over his feelings]

David French’s Irrational Fear of Guns is No Reason to Outlaw Open Carry.

Instead of asking why a then-17 year-old was there helping to guard a business and putting out fires, the question should be why the governor didn’t call out the Guard in the same way he is before this verdict. The question should be how elected officials failed to protect the community they represented and made a teenager feel like he needed to go and offer what protection he could as a substitute. My grandfather was Kyle Rittenhouse’s age when he signed up to serve on the USS Alabama in WWII. Men a year older can openly bear arms to fight overseas but not to defend their own communities when rioters are allowed to turn a town into a war zone?

Rittenhouse had every right to be in Kenosha. His father lives there. His grandmother lives there. He works there. His rifle was there too, (not driven across state lines) despite media’s best intentions to turn Rittenhouse’s short 20 minute drive from his mom’s house in Antioch to Kenosha into the modern journey of Odysseus. In fact, you might argue Rittenhouse had more of a reason to be in Kenosha than the rioters from California or Oregon.

It makes no sense that [David] French is arguing against open carry by citing the case of a teenager (the court determined he was legally open-carrying a rifle) who can’t carry concealed because a) how do you carry a rifle concealed and b) he’s too young to purchase and carry a handgun, much less carry it concealed.

No law-abiding person should feel persuaded to forfeit their rights because someone harbors an irrational fear of the inanimate object they possess. A person’s comfort level doesn’t determine the extent to which a right can be exercised. If you dislike open carry then carry concealed, but no one has the right to determine for others how they may lawfully carry.

— Dana Loesch in Kyle Rittenhouse Isn’t a Villain and There Is Nothing Wrong with Open Carry

William A. Jacobson-
My appearance on Chicago’s Morning Answer:
“if you can’t defend yourself in those circumstances and the full weight of the state and the full weight of the media is going to come down on you, then we are in a really bad place”

 

Free States Must Defend the Right to Self-Defense

The jury is still out as I write this; I wish I could be confident that our justice system will provide what it promises and that the unjustly accused will leave the courthouse wearing a smile instead of handcuffs. Kyle Rittenhouse, who went into the void created by the cowardly leftist officials who refused to protect decent citizens from the militarized wing of the Democrat Party, might well be convicted.

He got dragged through a legal nightmare, and if that’s all that happens to him, then that’s the best-case scenario. Us lawyers understand that evidence and law are not what determine jury verdicts; they are merely factors in a much bigger picture. Instead of facing life in prison, Kyle ought to get a medal for taking out several degenerates, including a promising potential Lincoln Project intern.

If you are looking for justice, you won’t necessarily find it in a courthouse.

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This was clearly ‘something personal’ as we can see the deadhead was waving out of the way what turned out to be an off duty cop that TCOB.
‘Stupid is as Stupid does’

Also, lesson learned from other’s experience?
‘Check 6 isn’t just for fighter pilots’

Hero off-duty Baltimore cop kills gunman who fatally shot barber

The gunman, identified as Carlos Ortega, entered The Bladi Style barbershop in Baltimore’s Medford section Saturday afternoon with a handgun and “fired it at one of the barbers” working there, killing him, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison told reporters Saturday.

An off-duty cop in plainclothes who was getting a haircut from another barber reacted immediately and “with great bravery produced his firearm” and fatally shot the attacker, Harrison said.

Cops identified Ortega, 38, early Monday as the man who killed barber Rafael Jeffers, 33, the Baltimore Sun reported.

Investigators believe Ortega was tied to two earlier Saturday shootings, including one that left one person dead. Another victim was listed in critical condition following gunfire near the city’s Greektown section.