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What is so complicated about it? He was at a place he could legally be, carrying a firearm he was legally able to carry. He was then attacked and defended himself. Seems pretty uncomplicated.
It's complicated because she wants him to be guilty. And it's difficult to prove that he was guilty. So it's complicated.
I try not to post. What I think is of concern to anyone but me. However, I can not keep reading about the doubt that a skate board can cause serious damage or even death. Yeah.....DEATH.
The average total weight of a skateboard is 11 lbs. It is constructed of layers of wood for the deck and then there are the trucks and wheels. The trucks are attached to the underside of the deck and are made from metal. The trucks are made from, titanium, magnesium or aluminum. The wheels are made from plastic urethane. Street boards use harder wheels. If Huber was a skateboarder, instead of just scooting around on one, he certainly had a board that could weigh as much as 11 - 12 lbs.
We don't know how much force Huber used to hit Rittenhouse. Was Huber a weight lifter? Did he pitch ball? Was he wimpy? We don't know. Now add in the adrenaline. Combine that unknown force with gravity, and the weight of the skateboard and you are looking at a potentially lethal weapon.
When my boys were seriously into skateboarding I took them to Vans in Potomac Mills. There was a boy who was hit in the head by his own skateboard. He missed the landing at the top of the half-pipe. With the weight of the skateboard and gravity alone he got a fractured skull and traumatic brain injury.
Just one example of what can happen when one gets hit in the head with a skateboard.
A little honest knowledge about this subject is sorely needed.
I remember a story about a doorman who attempted to stop a skateboarder from using the front of the building that he was responsible for as a skate park. The skateboarder struck him in the head with the board and he went into a coma and came out a paraplegic.
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This is NOT an open and shut case. The only survivor of encounters with Rittenhouse that night, believes that Rittenhouse was an "active shooter". With reasonable cause to think that.
You mean, the guy who'd lied a number of times about what had happened? Who also has a history of lying to the cops?
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This is incredibly complicated. Rittenhouse was witnessed to have shot another individual shortly before, and as his own attorney says, "hadn't shot anyone in two blocks since running". So damned by faint praise. He's not an active shooter, he's run a couple blocks since he shot anyone. Um.
Right after shooting Rosenbaum he'd told GG that he was going to the cops. Why did GG not want him to go to the cops?
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This is very, very difficult. Our men are encouraged to engage and disarm active shooters. This is what this man attempted.
Your men? Tell 'your men' to stop burning looting and murdering their way across the country.
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How should a court rule, when everyone is completely confused in the bedlam?
Seems most people aren't confused and the only ones who are, are the ones who are desperately grasping at straws trying to figure out how to make it appear that it was something different than Rittenhouse defending his life.
This is NOT an open and shut case. The only survivor of encounters with Rittenhouse that night, believes that Rittenhouse was an "active shooter". With reasonable cause to think that.
This is incredibly complicated. Rittenhouse was witnessed to have shot another individual shortly before, and as his own attorney says, "hadn't shot anyone in two blocks since running". So damned by faint praise. He's not an active shooter, he's run a couple blocks since he shot anyone. Um.
This is very, very difficult. Our men are encouraged to engage and disarm active shooters. This is what this man attempted.
How should a court rule, when everyone is completely confused in the bedlam?
Every single pieces of video shows that Rittenhouse acted defensively during the entire confrontation. Not once was he the aggressor, not once did he fire for no reason, not once did he break the nonaggression principle. This is the most clear case of self defense that has ever been caught on video. The video footage could be used as training for self defense classes, and there would be far more praise than criticism from the instructor. You are correct that it is not an open and shut case, but that has less to do with the evidence than it does with the political climate.
It is telling that out of all the hundreds of people around him, that he only ended up shooting the only three people to assault him and/or lunge at him with a weapon.
It is telling that out of all the hundreds of people around him, that he only ended up shooting the only three people to assault him and/or lunge at him with a weapon.
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You mean, the guy who'd lied a number of times about what had happened? Who also has a history of lying to the cops?
Right after shooting Rosenbaum he'd told GG that he was going to the cops. Why did GG not want him to go to the cops?
Your men? Tell 'your men' to stop burning looting and murdering their way across the country.
Seems most people aren't confused and the only ones who are, are the ones who are desperately grasping at straws trying to figure out how to make it appear that it was something different than Rittenhouse defending his life.
Seems the jury is still out.
So, this is not cut and dried.
Other people disagree with your opinion, that this is easy peasy to figure out.
There are others, who see it differently than you, and the others on this forum do.
So someone swinging any hard object is grounds for the use of deadly force, what is the threshold. The word reckless is repeated in all these charges, he was attacked so his only choice was to kill?
The threshold is if said person, swinging said hard object is capable of inflicting great bodily harm or death.
A fully grown man swinging a skateboard at your head definitely qualifies.
Duh.
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