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4Chan Does Better Journalism Than CNN, Identifies Portland Shooting Suspect

Posted on | September 1, 2020 | 4 Comments


 

After a Trump supporter was shot dead Saturday night in Portland, Oregon, images of the suspected shooter were widely shared online and the hackers at 4chan went to work to identify the suspect. Within hours, they had named him as Michael Forest Reinoehl, identifiable by a “Black Power” fist tattoo on the side of his neck. This identification was quickly confirmed by the Oregonian newspaper:

A 48-year-old man who was accused of carrying a loaded gun at an earlier downtown Portland protest is under investigation in the fatal shooting Saturday night of a right-wing demonstrator after a pro-Trump rally.
Michael Forest Reinoehl calls himself an anti-fascist and has posted videos and photos of demonstrations he attended since late June, accompanied by the hashtags #blacklivesmatter, #anewnation and #breonnataylor.
Reinoehl was raised in Sandy and has had recent addresses in Northeast Portland, Gresham and Clackamas. He described himself on social media and in a video interview with Bloomberg QuickTake News as a professional snowboarder and contractor who has former military experience but “hated” his time in the army.
Sources familiar with the case but not authorized to speak said police are investigating Reinoehl. A family member also identified him as a man captured in photos and video seen leaving the shooting scene shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday.
Aaron Danielson, a supporter of the conservative group Patriot Prayer, was shot in the chest and died in the street. It was soon after most cars in a caravan of supporters of President Donald Trump had left the city’s downtown streets.
Reinoehl’s posts indicate he attended many protests in Portland that began three months ago after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis under the knee of a police officer.
On July 5 at one of the demonstrations, Reinoehl was cited at 2:10 a.m. in the 700 block of Southwest Main Street on allegations of possessing a loaded gun in a public place, resisting arrest and interfering with police.
He was given a date to appear in court later that month, but the allegations were dropped on July 30 with a “no complaint,” according to court records. The documents don’t indicate why prosecutors decided not to pursue the accusations. Reinoehl spent no time behind bars.
Brent Weisberg, a spokesman for Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, said the office is still reviewing that July case involving Reinoehl.
Schmidt earlier Sunday decried the deadly violence. He took office on Aug. 1 and quickly announced that he wouldn’t pursue low-level charges against demonstrators, such as interfering with police or resisting arrest. . . .

(In other words, the policy of the prosecutor is pro-criminal, and this shooting in Portland was a direct consequence of the impunity with which Antifa mobs have been permitted to operate there.)

Michael Reinoehl has been estranged from the family — including her, their parents and a younger brother — for at least three years, his sister said.
“On the one hand, this whole thing surprises the daylights out of us, because we always thought he is a lot of bark, not a lot of bite,” she said. “But he’s also been very impulsive and irrational.”
Reinoehl has stolen their mother’s seizure medication and owes a lot of debt, often giving his relatives’ addresses as his own to avoid responsibility, she said. . . .
Reinoehl is also wanted on a failure to appear warrant in a June 8 speed racing case in Baker County in eastern Oregon. He and his 17-year-old son were racing in two different cars at speeds of up to 111 mph heading east on Interstate 84 after midnight near North Powder, according to state police.
Michael Reinoehl faces allegations including driving under the influence of a controlled substance, recklessly endangering another, unlawful possession of a gun and driving while suspended and uninsured.
He was stopped driving a 2005 Cadillac STS with his 11-year-old daughter as a passenger, police said. Inside the car, police said they found marijuana, “unidentified prescription pills” and a loaded Glock pistol for which Reinoehl didn’t have a concealed handgun license.

Talk about “white privilege”! All you have to do is join Antifa and, no matter what happens, Oregon officials won’t put you in jail.

But the main point I wish to make is that it wasn’t CNN reporters who did the work of identifying Reinhoel. Hackers at 4chan did that.




 

Category: Crime, Oregon

In The Mailbox: 08.31.20

Posted on | August 31, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Shattering Bamboozles Or Shattering America
357 Magnum: “Anarchy Ends in Chaos”
EBL: Democratic Party Discourse & Dialogue
Twitchy: Joe Biden Barely Made It Through His Speech Today Without Injuring Himself; Ana Navarro Moved To Ridiculousness
Louder With Crowder: Two #BLM Speakers Declare “Open Season” On Police, Time To “Put Them In Their Graves”
Vox Popoli: Fighting Corporate Cancer, also, Seppuku NFL Style
According To Hoyt: Don’t Assume The Beatings Will Stop
Monster Hunter Nation: About My “Tone” On Social Media

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Stay Away From Crowds Edition, also, The Convict Stain
American Conservative: Foreign Policy Restraint Was Winning At The RNC
American Greatness: Democrat Operative Confirms Vote-By-Mail Fraud Is Real, also, Portland’s “100% Antifa Killer” Was Previously Arrested Twice For Illegally Possessing Loaded Firearm
American Power: Trump Bets On Law & Order Message To Sway Swing Voters
American Thinker: Kyle Rittenhouse & The Law Of The Pursuer, also, It’s Trump’s GOP Now
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Miami Herald Tosses Sports Columnist Armando Salguero Under The Bus For Defending America
BattleSwarm: TPPF On Homelessness In Austin & Elsewhere, also, BidenWatch For August 31
Cafe Hayek: See, No GULAGS! Industrial Policy Works! also, To Where Is America’s Middle Class “Disappearing”?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Space Force – Culture, Ranks, & Making The Future On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: 49 Black Lives That Didn’t Matter Enough To NBA Players To Consider A Boycott, also, Five One-Liners Under Other Bloggers’ Fedoras
Don Surber: Riots Join Impeachment & Mueller As Acme Failures, also, U.S. Chamberpot Of Commerce Stabs Trump In The Back
First Street Journal: #FakeNews – CNN Tries To Whitewash Criminal Past Of man Killed In Kenosha, also, Reaping The Whirlwind
Fred On Everything: Questions For The European Dependencies
The Geller Report: Moving Company – “We’re Working Morning, Noon, & Night To Move People Out Of New York”, also, Kamala Harris – Rioters Are Not Going To Let Up, And They Should Not”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Restraint, So Far
Hollywood In Toto: Rapper 50 Cent Says Cancel Culture Targets Straight Males, also, Canceled Comic Josh Denny – Gaffigan’s Anti-Trump Rant Isn’t Brave
JustOneMinute: Shooting It Out In The Street
The Lid: Oakland Rioters Shout “Death To America”, also, U.S. Marshals Locate 39 Missing Children In Georgia Op
Legal Insurrection: Democrats & Media Desperately Try To Pin Riots On Trump, also, Full DC Appeals Court Rules Against General Flynn, Won’t Force Judge Sullivan To Dismiss Case – Yet
The PanAm Post: Cape Verde Court Suspended To Avoid Extradition Of Maduro Frontman, also, MAGAzuelans, Unite – Trump’s Re-Election Crucial For Venezuela
Power Line: Suspect Identified In Portland Murder, also, Getting To The Bottom Of Governor Cuomo’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Scandal
Shark Tank: Hating Trump In Florida
Shot In The Dark: For Posterity’s Sake
The Political Hat: Struggle Sessions Come To Argonne National Lab, also, Transphobic Chromosomes
This Ain’t Hell: Antifa Occupies Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Apartment, also, Defunding Rioters On Welfare
Victory Girls: In Defense Of Looting – Exercise In Left-Wing Sociopathy, also, Mad King Gavin – Shutdowns Forever!
Volokh Conspiracy: The Controversy Over Quoting Racial Epithets, Now At UC Irvine School Of Law, also, Apparently, I “Owe” A “Debt” To African-Americans
Weasel Zippers: Trump Lands Endorsements From Democrat Mayors In Minnesota, also, Most Important Video Of 2020
The Federalist: Corporate Media Didn’t Report What It’s Really Like In Kenosha, So I Will, also, Meet The Rioting Criminals Kamala Harris Helped Bail Out Of Jail
Mark Steyn: Culture, Consequences, & The Corner, also, A House Divided

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‘Adult Entertainment’

Posted on | August 31, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Say hello to Laura Wambles of Dothan, Alabama, a/k/a “Aubrey Gold.” Two weeks after her 18th birthday, Ms. Wambles began performing in what are euphemistically called “adult entertainment” videos. She was quite busy in the field of “adult entertainment” for a couple of years:

Wambles’ Internet Adult Film Database page lists 65 credits. Wambles’ videos have been viewed over 26 million times on PornHub.

By 2017, however, Ms. Wambles seems to have exited the industry, perhaps due to a dispute with her “agent,” Sheelagh Blumberg.

Fans of “Aubrey Gold” may have wondered what ever happened to her. Well, she made news this week — where else? — in Florida:

A 23-year-old former porn star, her boyfriend and another man were charged in the death of a man found buried in a shallow grave in Florida last week, reports said.
Lauren Wambles, who goes by Aubrey Gold, was charged with being a principal to the murder of 51-year-old Raul Guillen, WTVY reported.
The body of Guillen, who had been missing since early July, was found Tuesday off a road in the city of Graceville, Florida.
While alive, Guillen was last known to be at the Graceville home of Jeremie Peters, 43, along with Wambles and her 35-year-old boyfriend, William Parker, WDHN reported, citing police.
Investigators found evidence linked to Guillen’s murder at the home of Peters, the report said.
Peters was charged with being an accessory to murder, while Parker faces an open count of murder, the reports said.
Wambles appeared in 31 adult films from 2015 to 2018, WTVY reported.

 

Permit me to say that the phrases “adult film” and “porn star” are both profoundly misleading. These are not “films,” they’re low-budget videos, and the people who consume this vile fare are not more “adult” than the rest of us; in fact they are quite immature. To describe a performer in this low-rent filth as a “star” is to attribute to them a level of wealth and fame that they certainly do not possess. Nearly all of them work under aliases, and even the most popular performers are unknown except among the perverts for whom their videos serve as mastubatory inspiration.

What sort of people work in this industry? The word “trash” is appropriate. Wambles “has been arrested at least six times since 2018” and at the time of her murder arrest, she was facing a November trial for felony drug possession. She was hanging around scum:

Ronnie Peacock, 51, and Patrick D. Howard, 36, were arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine in unrelated cases.
While conducting an investigation into a homicide case Monday involving the murder of Raul Ambriz Guillen, a missing Dothan man, deputies executed a search warrant at 1101 Highway 171. While conducting the search, deputies observed a baggie containing methamphetamine in plain view.
A second resident residing at 1101 Highway 171, Jeremy Peters, was later arrested in connection to Guillen’s murder. . . .
Tuesday while deputies continued to investigate the homicide crime scene in the area, deputies observed Howard riding a bicycle and approaching the perimeter of the crime scene.
Deputies made contact with Howard and searched him, discovering a small bag of methamphetamine inside a plastic pill bottle.

It’s as if everyone in the vicinity was a meth head, and so we can imagine what it was that led to this murder. Hang around that kind of trash and you may end up in a shallow grave, or in prison.

“Adult entertainment,” indeed.




 

Category: Alabama, Crime, Florida

The Shark Has Been Infinitely Jumped: Russians Controlling Black Lives Matter?

Posted on | August 31, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

“I’m Not Making This Up, You Know,” says my podcasting partner John Hoge, reacting to the latest madness from Adam Schiff:

SCHIFF: The peaceful protests, I think, are calling out, in a very important way, the murder of so many black men and women at the hands of police. And those protests are in the best tradition of the United States. But we need to make sure that they’re peaceful, as they largely have been, and that there aren’t these incidents of violence. In terms of what we can expect from the Russians or what the Russians are doing, the Russians, four years ago, Dana, exploited Black Lives Matter. They set up their own false flags online to try to divide people along racial lines.
DANA BASH, CNN: Are they doing it now?
SCHIFF: And we have to — they are once again doing their best in social media, in their overt media, and other means to grow these divisions again.
And I think that most pernicious, we got to — we have to worry about their aggravating these tensions in our cities. We also have to worry about the Russians pushing out the president’s false narratives about voting by mail. But, finally, on the protests, Dana, I want to underscore something that you were asking Senator Johnson about. And that is, the president is willfully fanning the flames of this violence.

Also, the pyramids were built by aliens from outer space, and your brain waves are controlled by the CIA and the Bavarian Illuminati.

While I would like to say that Shiff couldn’t possibly get any crazier, he has shown endless creativity exploring new frontiers of craziness.




 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Democrats, Racism, Russia

‘I Also Hope to Keep a Steady High’

Posted on | August 31, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

Worrying about politics is a waste of time, and nobody who knew me when I was in college could ever have imagined that I would grow up to become a political journalist, wasting my time this way.

My perspective on the political scene is idiosyncratic, simply because most people in this racket have been political junkies all their lives. They came to Washington right out of college, and wish nothing more than to be taken seriously as pundits, capable of prognosticating future outcomes. In contrast, I left college with the career goal of becoming a rock star, jammed in bands for a while, then stumbled into a newspaper career three years later, worked for years as a sports editor, and didn’t make it to D.C. until I was 38 years old, married with three kids.

It happened the other day (thank you, YouTube algorithm) that I started watching old videos of the jazz-rock band Chicago. Did you know that Chicago’s guitarist Terry Kath was Jimi Hendrix’s favorite guitarist? To listen to Kath play on “25 or 6 to 4” is to be amazed, and it’s a pity that Kath (who died tragically in 1978) is so seldom mentioned among the rock-and-roll greats. Kath could also sing like Ray Charles, a distinctive bluesy baritone, and as I watched videos of Chicago in early concerts, I remembered one of my old favorites of theirs, “Dialogue (Part I & II)” in which Kath trades lyrical lines with Peter Cetera:

Are you optimistic
About the way things are going?

No, I never ever think of it at all.

Don’t you ever worry
When you see what’s going down?

Well, I try to mind my business,
That is, no business at all.

When it’s time to function
As a feeling human being,
Will your Bachelor of Arts help you get by?

I hope to study further,
A few more years or so.
I also hope to keep a steady high

Such was my youthful attitude: “Don’t bum me out, man.”

You can perhaps see why I’ve always been mystified by these ultra-serious young “activist” types, crusading against social injustice all over the Internet when they’re not busy rioting in the streets. Far be it from me, a responsible father and grandfather, to encourage young people to pursue psychedelic hedonism as a way of life, but in some ways that would be preferable to becoming a “social justice warrior.”

These cynical ruminations were inspired not just by old Chicago songs, but also by the realization that the past three months of riots started because George Floyd overdosed on fentanyl.

 

Has any attempt to “keep a steady high” ever backfired so disastrously? Documents made public last week show the medical examiner found Floyd had “a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances,” and bodycam videos show Floyd complaining “I can’t breathe” before the officers put him on the ground. In fact, the reason Floyd was on the ground was because he refused to let officers put him in the back of the police car, struggling and complaining of COVID and claustrophobia. Police, recognizing his “excited delirium” as evidence of a drug overdose, called an ambulance, then held him on the ground while they waited for the ambulance to arrive. There was no “systemic racism” involved, nor can the charges of murder against the officers be justified.

Well, I try to mind my business,
That is, no business at all.

Do you see the relevance here? The 1970s were a decade when there was a lot to be depressed or angry about, if you cared to pay attention to what was happening in the world. So not caring — complete cynicism — became a very widespread attitude. Just mind your own business and, like the song said, “try to keep a steady high.” Also, if you’re going to freak out on drugs, try not to do it on a city sidewalk after you’ve just been caught attempting to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.

Am I “optimistic about the way things are going”? Well, it is a hazard of my profession that I can’t simply ignore how things are going, and I hesitate to offer predictions, however . . .

How bad do things look for Joe Biden’s campaign right now? Consider this: Democrats are worried about Minnesota, a state no Republican presidential candidate has carried since Richard Nixon’s 1972 landslide. Yet polls show President Trump gaining ground in Minnesota, and Democrats are worried because they haven’t seen any appearances by Biden or his running mate Kamala Harris. “Why aren’t they here?” one Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party official told Minnesota Public Radio last week. “We need to hear from them. We need to see their presence on the ground.”
Biden’s peril in Minnesota is in many ways emblematic of everything that’s gone wrong for Democrats in this campaign. While the Real Clear Politics average of Minnesota polls still shows Biden leading Trump by more than five points, a poll by Emerson College earlier this month had Trump within three points, and a poll by the GOP-affiliated Trafalgar Group two weeks ago showed a tie in Minnesota. How could a state that twice gave majorities to Barack Obama, a state that not even Ronald Reagan could win in his 1984 landslide, be in play for Trump this year? Well, in a word, riots. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Did I mention that Adam Schiff is blaming Russia for the riots?




 

Category: American Spectator, Crime, Donald Trump, Election, Joe Biden, Minnesota

Early Morning Rule 5 Monday: Linda Ronstadt

Posted on | August 31, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I thought I was too tired to get this done last night, but after a couple of hours of tossing and turning I figured I might as well just get up and knock it out. Ms. Ronstadt needs no introduction.

“I would low-crawl nekkid over five miles of broken glass just to hear her fart on the field phone.”

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1091, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Semi-Autos Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Rigoletto, Haim, Il Trovatore, Marie Osmond, Louisa Miller, Un Ballo In Maschera, La Traviata, Day Three Of The GOP Convention, Don Carlo, Lisette Oroposa, Chop Suey,  and Maya Layani.

A View From The Beach: Demi Rose, Fish Pic Friday – Erica Lynn, Tattoo Thursday, Not Your Mother’s Latex Paint, Truckin’ Into Tuesday, The Woman Who Killed Hollywood, More on WuFlu for You, Russiagate: Is it Time Already? and Palm Sunday

Proof Positive: Connie Stevens

Red Pilled Jew: Thank Hashem It’s Friday

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Willin’

Posted on | August 31, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Willin’

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week, one of the rare occasions where the Loyal Commentariat preferred burgers and violence to babes. To commemorate this, here’s the King of Knights dining at the King of Burgers. Notice that she’s dining in, so as not to obstruct Stacy’s pursuit of Neutral Objective Journalism and double cheeseburgers.

Why Fast Food Isn’t Fast Anymore (and Other Serious Social Problems)
Rotten Chestnuts
Bacon Time
Dark Brightness
The Political Hat
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Sex Offender Joseph Rosenbaum Taunted Armed Civilians: ‘Shoot Me, N–r!’
First Street Journal
One Way Today
The Political Hat
A Free Born American
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Kim Klacik
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Kenosha Riots Turn Deadly
357 Magnum
The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Lauren Martinchek Nails It
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: They’re Dying Over There
A View From The Beach
EBL

Mostly Peaceful Protests’ After Cops Shoot Black Man in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Today’s News & Updates
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.24.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 08.25.20
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In The Mailbox: 08.26.20
357 Magnum
EBL
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What’s Better Than CNN?
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Tonopah And/Or Bust
The Political Hat
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.27.20
EBL
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Some Further Thoughts on Kenosha: Predators and Their Preferred Prey
EBL
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Biden Voter Arrested in Colorado
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Category: FMJRA Award

Kenosha: Anthony Huber Was a Felon, and Jacob Blake Was Dangerous

Posted on | August 30, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

After a week of endless disinformation by the anti-Trump media, we are finally getting the truth about Kenosha, Wisconsin. We now know, for example, that Anthony Huber, one of the rioters who was shot to death by Kyle Rittenhouse, was not the saintly hero some in the media have tried to depict. Huber’s criminal record included a 2012 conviction for strangulation and false imprisonment in a domestic abuse incident. We also know that Jacob Blake, whose shooting last Sunday sparked the “mostly peaceful” riots in Kenosha, was wanted on a warrant for sexual assault and violated a protective order by his ex-girlfriend:

The cops involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake — which touched off a fresh wave of angry, anti-police sentiment across the country — were attempting to arrest him for violating a restraining order stemming from an alleged sexual assault, The Post has learned.
Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.

The details of Blake’s assault of his victim are gross.

The information provided by Kenosha police puts last Sunday’s shooting in a whole new light. Blake was wanted on a felony warrant, he had fought with police when they tried to arrest him, and was apparently trying to get in a van with three kids in the back seat. Should police have let a criminal take those kids hostage? Because that’s what the situation would have been, if Blake had driven off in that van — a fugitive from justice, with three kids as hostages, in a stolen vehicle. That’s something CNN won’t tell you, that Blake had stolen the keys to his victim’s van.

It was a no-win situation for the cops. And yet we saw Kenosha go up in flames because of the media’s 24/7 incitement to riot. Now let’s return to the subject of Anthony Huber. What had happened was that Rittenhouse had shot sex offender Joseph “JoJo” Rosenbaum. We’ll talk more about that later, but here’s how Huber got shot:

A second person who was later identified as Anthony Huber approaches the defendant who is still on the ground, on his back. Huber has a skateboard in his right hand. When Huber reaches the defendant it appears that he is reaching for the defendant’s gun with his left hand as the skateboard makes contact with the defendant’s left shoulder. Huber appears to be trying to pull the gun away from the defendant. The defendant rolls towards his left side and as Huber appears to be trying to grab the gun the gun is pointed at Huber’s body. The defendant then fires one round which can be heard on the video. Huber staggers away, taking several steps, then collapses to the ground. Huber subsequently died from this gunshot wound.

That’s from the police affidavit in the case, which adds:

Dr. Kelley [who performed the autopsy] indicated that Huber had a gunshot wound to his chest that perforated his heart, aorta, pulmonary artery, and right lung.

“Center mass,” I believe is the phrase.

How did this spin so out of control? Well, from the affidavit, it appears that somehow Rittenhouse got separated from his crew, and the mob was chasing him through the streets. The sex offender Rosenbaum chased Rittenhouse across a parking lot, in a scene witnessed by Daily Caller reporter Richard McGinnis, who is quoted in the affidavit:

McGinnis said that according to what he saw the defendant was trying to evade these individuals. McGinnis described the point where the defendant had reached the car. McGinnis described that the defendant had the gun in a low ready position. Meaning that he had the gun raised but pointed downward. The butt of the gun would have been at an angle downwards from the shoulder. McGinnis stated that the defendant brought the gun up. McGinnis stated that he stepped back and he thinks the defendant fired 3 rounds in rapid succession. . . .
McGinnis said that the unarmed guy (Rosenbaum) was trying to get the defendant’s gun. McGinnis demonstrated by extending both of his hands in a quick grabbing motion and did that as a visual on how Rosenbaum tried to reach for the defendant’s gun. Detective Cepress indicates that he asked McGinnis if Rosenbaum had his hands on the gun when the defendant shot. McGinnis said that he definitely made a motion that he was trying to grab the barrel of the gun. McGinnis stated that the defendant pulled it away and then raised it.
McGinnis stated that right as they came together, the defendant fired. McGinnis said that when Rosenbaum was shot, he had leaned in (towards the defendant).

And the affidavit adds:

Dr. Kelley indicated that Rosenbaum had a gunshot wound to the right groin which fractured his pelvis, a gunshot wound to the back which perforated his right lung and liver, a gunshot wound to the left hand, a superficial gunshot wound to his lateral left thigh, and a graze gunshot wound to the right side of his forehead.

Of the five wounds, two were potentially fatal. R.I.P., sex offender.

This video analysis has some interesting commentary:

 

“That’s the ultimate ‘play a stupid game, win a stupid prize.’ You’re running, chasing somebody down. The person you’re chasing has a rifle. What did you expect?”

Exactly. Nobody would have gotten shot had it not been for the aggressive stupidity of convicted sex offender JoJo Rosenbaum. Once he had collected his stupid prize, the rest of the rioting mob decided they should join in on the stupid game of chasing the guy with the rifle.

Amazing marksmanship. Given a sufficient supply of ammunition, Rittenhouse could have wiped out every Antifa thug in Kenosha.




 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin
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