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The Intersection of Rage and Ignorance

Posted on | April 19, 2025 | 39 Comments

Tempted as I am to blame “misinformation” for this, the facts of the Kyle Rittenhouse case were accurately reported in dozens of major media outlets, so there is no excuse for these people who somehow got the idea that Rittenhouse “murdered . . . black kids in Michigan during a protest.”

Just to reiterate: The three people shot by Rittenhouse on the night of August 25, 2020 — JoJo Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz — were all white. All of them had criminal records, the most egregious being Rosenbaum, a convicted child rapist. It was Rosenbaum who first attacked Rittenhouse, trying to take away his gun, before being shot to death. Once that happened, others in the mob of rioters (“protest,” my ass) then began pursuing Rittenhouse. Huber tried to hit Rittenhouse on the head with a skateboard and was fatally shot. Then Grosskreutz, brandishing a pistol, was shot in the arm, but survived. No black people were killed. Nobody was “murdered” (self-defense is not murder) by Rittenhouse. It was a riot, not a “protest,” and it happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, not Michigan. But anyway . . .

The reason Kyle Rittenhouse got brought up (during a three-hour podcast hosted by Anton Daniels, who seems to be a decent guy himself) was because of the murder of Austin Metcalf in Frisco, Texas, more than two weeks ago. I wrote about it April 5 (“Texas Murder: An Exclamation Point on My Argument About ‘Adolescence’”) and expected the story to disappear from the headlines. It seemed to me an open-and-shut case. Karmelo Anthony brought a knife to a track meet and stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart, in front of numerous witnesses and, I am told, the police have video evidence. The main point, as I have said repeatedly since the story broke: Who brings a knife to a track meet?

Despite this being an open-and-shut murder case, Karmelo Anthony’s family has tried to claim that he is the victim and that he acted in self-defense, and many members of The Community™ have swallowed this claim hook, line and sinker. While I would be content to ignore this story and let the case play out in court, we instead have a situation where “activists” are trying to turn this into a civil rights drama to incite anti-white racial hatred. And they keep bringing up Kyle Rittenhouse.

KENOSHA HAD ALREADY SEEN TWO NIGHTS OF RIOTING before Kyle Rittenhouse got into that confrontation on August 25, 2020:

Jacob Blake is an African-American man who was shot seven times during an arrest by police officer Rusten Sheskey in Kenosha on August 23, 2020. . . .
A state of emergency was declared in Kenosha County starting at 10:15 p.m. [Sunday, August 23], and garbage trucks were used to block 56th Street. Starting at 11:05 p.m., police began using tear gas and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse crowds. This continued all night. Near midnight, the crowd lit a small fire in front of a ground-floor window of the Kenosha County Courthouse and at least three garbage trucks and a trolley car were set on fire.
By 2:30 a.m., a truck at a used car dealership along Sheridan Road was set on fire. The fire spread to most of the 100 other cars on the lot . . . The buildings surrounding Civic Center Park, along with many downtown businesses, including the post office, Reuther High School, the Kenosha County Administration Building, and the Dinosaur Discovery Museum sustained damage to their front windows and entrance foyers. . . .
[Monday, August 24] Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers activated the Wisconsin National Guard to protect firefighters and critical infrastructure in Kenosha. . . . [Kenosha County] announced a curfew that went into effect at 8 p.m. . . .
Protesters broke a door off its hinges in an effort to enter the Public Safety Building before being turned back by pepper spray. Teargas was deployed for a second night starting around 8:30 p.m. in an attempt to disperse unlawful crowds gathered near the courthouse, as protesters launched fireworks at police. Another garbage truck was set on fire, while armed gunmen appeared to be guarding a downtown gas station.
Arsonists targeted a Wisconsin Department of Corrections community probation and parole office and the city’s Danish Brotherhood Lodge. Other buildings set on fire included a furniture store, residential apartments and several homes. Firefighters worked into the morning of August 25.
The Kenosha Guard, a citizen militia organization with a Facebook group, created an event page named “Armed Citizens to Protect our Lives and Property” . . .

Riot in Kenosh, Wisconsin, August 2020

This was a genuine crisis in Kenosha, and Rittenhouse joined other armed citizens in an attempt to prevent further destruction. Much was made of the fact that Rittenhouse was only 17 and that he was from Antioch, Illinois: “He crossed state lines!” Yes, as he had been doing repeatedly his entire life. Antioch is about a 20-mile drive southwest of Kenosha; many people who live in Antioch work in Kenosha, the nearest big city. But the larger point is that there was concern about the possibility of a third night of arson and vandalism in Kenosha, which had already suffered enormous damage in two nights of rioting. It was clearly a dangerous situation and so we know why Kyle Rittenhouse was armed.

Why did Karmelo Anthony bring a knife to that track meet? Was there any reason for Anthony to fear violence there in Collin County, Texas? We do not have any plausible explanation for this, which is why the comparison to Kyle Rittenhouse fails — Rittenhouse was carrying a rifle because he was going to the scene of a riot (which, I will admit, was a questionable decision). But so far as we know, there was no similar reason for Karmelo Anthony to be armed with a knife at that track meet.

“One of these things is not like the other,” as the old Sesame Street jingle says. However, those attempting to justify the murder of Austin Metcalf — and make no mistake, they are literally arguing that Metcalf deserved to be stabbed in the heart — keep bringing up Rittenhouse, as if his case was somehow relevant. There was a press conference Thursday.

Dominique Alexander speaks to the media Thursday

Matt Walsh calls this the most disgusting press conference he’s ever seen, and I’m inclined to agree. Begin with the fact that the Anthony family’s chosen spokesman, Dominique Alexander of the Next Generation Action Network (NGAN), is a convicted felon who arguably should be in prison himself. In 2009, Dominique Alexander brutalized his girlfriend’s 2-year-old child so severely the child ended up in the intensive care unit, and that’s just one of the crimes on his rap sheet. Furthermore, Alexander has a history of inciting deadly racial violence:

He took to the streets [of Dallas] with 200 other protesters in late November 2014 when a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, declined to indict a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. They marched through downtown Dallas, shut down Interstate 35E and chanted “Hey, hey, ho, ho, these racist cops have got to go” in front of Dallas police headquarters after seven of their protesters were arrested.
In July [2016], Alexander joined with the Southern Baptist minister Rev. Jeff Hood to lead another protest through downtown. They gathered to speak out against the killing of Alton Sterling, an armed black man and registered sex offender who was shot and killed by Baton Rouge police officers. But their protest ended with Micah Johnson’s gunfire and five officers dead.

Have you forgotten about that deadly attack?

Micah Johnson had planned his sniper attack on Dallas police for months and practiced combat tactics in preparation, a Dallas official said . . .
Dallas County Chief Executive Judge Clay Jenkins said Johnson had been planning and training, and took advantage of the protest because of the high police presence.
“He knew police would be amassing at that scene and he used it as an opportunity to shoot,” Jenkins said.

Mass murderer Micah Xavier Johnson

Even if Alexander knew nothing about Micah Johnson’s plan, this protest provided the “target-rich environment” in which Johnson shot 14 cops, five of whom died. It was an absurd and pointless protest, by the way. Alton Sterling was an armed criminal and a subsequent investigation found the officers acted in a “reasonable and justifiable manner” in the incident in which Sterling was shot while resisting arrest. But whatever the case, why protest in Dallas about a police shooting in Baton Rouge, which is more than 400 miles away, in another state?

The logic of such things is never questioned by the media, who are apparently afraid to question self-appointed leaders of The Community™ about anything, for fear of seeming to be racist — “RAAAAACIST!”

So, during this press conference about the Karmelo Anthony case, Dominique Alexander accused critics of being “racist bigots,” and then asserting that video shows Kyle Rittenhouse “shooting three people in the back with an AK-47.” This is false. Rittenhouse didn’t shoot anyone in the back, and the weapon he used wasn’t an AK-47, it was a Smith & Wesson M&P 15, described in most media accounts as an “AR-15 type” rifle (which is, incidentally, the most popular type of rifle in America, with about 25 million in civilian hands). So at this press conference, the spokesman for the stabber’s family defamed an innocent man.

 

Will Kyle Rittenhouse sue Dominique Alexander? Probably not, but somehow I suspect Dominique Alexander will soon have other reasons to regret grabbing the spotlight in this case. It seems to me quite likely that someone in the U.S. Department of Justice will find a reason to open an investigation of Dominique Alexander and his organization. Is all his paperwork in order? Has the Next Generation Action Network kept a strict accounting of its finances as a tax-exempt 501(c) organization? Because if anyone were to contact the FBI and express suspicion of fraudulent activity by Dominique Alexander and NGAN . . .

Well, who knows what such an investigation might find?

My hope is that we’ll see no more press conferences like this, so that we can just wait for the court to deal with the Karmelo Anthony case without any further attempts to turn this situation into a race riot, by exploiting ignorance for the sake of inciting rage. And just one more thing:

On January 5, 2021, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley, the top prosecutor in the county, declined to bring charges against police officer Rusten Sheskey. He said that investigators had reviewed 40 hours of video and hundreds of pages of police reports before making the decision.
In April 2021, it was reported that Sheskey has returned to regular duty and will not face any administrative discipline.
In October 2021, the US Department of Justice announced it would not be bringing civil rights charges against Sheskey.

Officer Sheskey was the cop who shot Jacob Blake. The Kenosha riot? It wasn’t about “justice.” Jacob Blake was a dangerous criminal armed with a knife, and the officer who shot him did nothing wrong.



 

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