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Statement from Kyle Rittenhouse's attorneys

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Found at: Rittenhouse Attorneys Claim Self-Defense Kenosha Shootings



VERNON HILLS, ILLINOIS / August 28, 2020 / Pierce Bainbridge is honored to represent 17-year old Antioch, Illinois resident Kyle Rittenhouse, who has suddenly found himself at the center of a national firestorm and charged with murder after defending himself from a relentless, vicious and potentially deadly mob attack in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
On August 25th, 2020, Kenosha spiraled into chaos following the Jacob Blake shooting. The Kenosha Mayor and Wisconsin Governor failed to provide a basic degree of law and order to protect the citizens and community buildings in Kenosha. The city burned as mobs destroyed buildings and property, and looters stole whatever they wanted. Rioters defaced storefronts, the courthouse, and many other public and private locations across the city.
After Kyle finished his work that day as a community lifeguard in Kenosha, he wanted to help clean up some of the damage, so he and a friend went to the local public high school to remove graffiti by rioters. Later in the day, they received information about a call for help from a local business owner, whose downtown Kenosha auto dealership was largely destroyed by mob violence. The business owner needed help to protect what he had left of his life’s work, including two nearby mechanic’s shops. Kyle and a friend armed themselves with rifles due to the deadly violence gripping Kenosha and many other American cities, and headed to the business premises. The weapons were in Wisconsin and never crossed state lines.
Upon arrival, Kyle and others stood guard at the mechanic’s shop across from the auto dealership to prevent further damage or destruction. Later that night, substantially after the city’s 8:00 p.m. curfew expired without consequence, the police finally started to attempt to disperse a group of rioters. In doing so, they maneuvered a mass of individuals down the street towards the auto shops. Kyle and others on the premises were verbally threatened and taunted multiple times as the rioters passed by, but Kyle never reacted. His intent was not to incite violence, but simply to deter property damage and use his training to provide first aid to injured community members.
After the crowd passed the premises and Kyle believed the threat of further destruction had passed, he became increasingly concerned with the injured protestors and bystanders congregating at a nearby gas station with no immediate access to medical assistance or help from law enforcement. Kyle headed in that direction with a first aid kit. He sought out injured persons, rendered aid, and tried to guide people to others who could assist to the extent he could do so amid the chaos. By the final time Kyle returned to 2 the gas station and confirmed there were no more injured individuals who needed assistance, police had advanced their formation and blocked what would have been his path back to the mechanic’s shop. Kyle then complied with the police instructions not to go back there. Kyle returned to the gas station until he learned of a need to help protect the second mechanic’s shop further down the street where property destruction was imminent with no police were nearby.
As Kyle proceeded towards the second mechanic’s shop, he was accosted by multiple rioters who recognized that he had been attempting to protect a business the mob wanted to destroy. This outraged the rioters and created a mob now determined to hurt Kyle. They began chasing him down. Kyle attempted to get away, but he could not do so quickly enough. Upon the sound of a gunshot behind him, Kyle turned and was immediately faced with an attacker lunging towards him and reaching for his rifle. He reacted instantaneously and justifiably with his weapon to protect himself, firing and striking the attacker.

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Kyle stopped to ensure care for the wounded attacker but faced a growing mob gesturing towards him. He realized he needed to flee for his safety and his survival. Another attacker struck Kyle from behind as he fled down the street. Kyle turned as the mob pressed in on him and he fell to the ground. One attacker kicked Kyle on the ground while he was on the ground. Yet another bashed him over the head with a skateboard. Several rioters tried to disarm Kyle. In fear for his life and concerned the crowd would either continue to shoot at him or even use his own weapon against him, Kyle had no choice but to fire multiple rounds towards his immediate attackers, striking two, including one armed attacker. The rest of the mob began to disperse upon hearing the additional gunshots.
Kyle got up and continued down the street in the direction of police with his hands in the air. He attempted to contact multiple police officers, but they were more concerned with the wounded attackers. The police did not take Kyle into custody at that time, but instead they indicated he should keep moving. He fully cooperated, both then and later that night when he turned himself in to the police in his hometown, Antioch, Illinois.
Kyle did nothing wrong. He exercised his God-given, Constitutional, common law and statutory law right to self-defense.
However, in a reactionary rush to appease the divisive, destructive forces currently roiling this country, prosecutors in Kenosha did not engage in any meaningful analysis of the facts, or any in-depth review of available video footage (some of which shows that a critical state’s witness was not even at the area where the shots were fired); this was not a serious investigation. Rather, after learning Kyle may have had conservative political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens. Within 24-36 hours, he was charged with multiple homicide counts.
Kyle now has the best legal representation in the country. With help from Nicholas Sandmann attorney L. Lin Wood, Pierce Bainbridge and multiple top-tier criminal defense lawyers in Wisconsin immediately offered representation to Kyle.
Today, his legal team was successful in working with the public defender to obtain a several-week continuance of his extradition hearing to September 25th. This at least partially slows down the rush to judgment by a government and media that is determined to assassinate his character and destroy his life.
Kyle, his family, the team at Pierce Bainbridge and his other lawyers intend to fight these charges every step of the way, take the case to trial and win an acquittal on the grounds of self-defense before a jury of his peers.
The legal fees and other costs of Kyle’s defense will be provided through donations to #FightBack Foundation Inc., a Texas 501(c)(4) foundation created by John Pierce and Lin Wood to protect lawabiding American citizens whose rights are being trampled on by state and local governments that are more concerned with appeasing mobs than protecting those rights.
Pierce Bainbridge founder John Pierce praised Kyle’s strength and resilience. “A 17-year old child should not have to take up arms in America to protect life and property. That is the job of state and local governments. However, those governments have failed, and law-abiding citizens have no choice but to protect their own communities as their forefathers did at Lexington and Concord in 1775. Kyle is not a racist or a white supremacist. He is a brave, patriotic, compassionate law-abiding American who loves his country and his community. He did nothing wrong. He defended himself, which is a fundamental right of all Americans given by God and protected by law. He is now in the crosshairs of institutional forces that are much more powerful than him. But he will stand up to them and fight not only for himself, but for all Americans and their beloved Constitution. We will never leave his side until he is victorious in that fight.”
Further updates will be provided as the investigation and legal proceedings unfold.
 
**** him, prison for life for him and his Trump loving driver mom.

So much for innocent until proven guilty. I guess that only applies to dudes who pull knives on the cops and resist arrest.
 
So much for innocent until proven guilty. I guess that only applies to dudes who pull knives on the cops and resist arrest.

the bitch came looking to shoot someone, **** him, he'll enjoy a lifetime of incarceration.
 
the bitch came looking to shoot someone, **** him, he'll enjoy a lifetime of incarceration.

Yeah, he wanted that so bad that he ran away as fast as he could to avoid confrontation. But that was all part of his master plan, along with scrubbing off the graffiti and treating the injuries caused by rioters.

:laughat:
 
the bitch came looking to shoot someone, **** him, he'll enjoy a lifetime of incarceration.

Anyone looking at all all the videos can easily tell that wasn't the case. Barring any new info that may come out, it looks like straight up self defense. He'll get charged for having the gun as a minor but that's about it.
 
Anyone looking at all all the videos can easily tell that wasn't the case. Barring any new info that may come out, it looks like straight up self defense. He'll get charged for having the gun as a minor but that's about it.

i saw the film, he will do life along with mommy
 
**** him, prison for life for him and his Trump loving driver mom.

You, sir, are an absolute fountain of graciousness, compassion, understanding and intelligence. The world itself should be humbled before your glory.
 
Well, when you decide to check your bias at the door, let me know.

No chance. His bias is permanently attached. He would have to have it surgically removed, and probably wouldn't survive the procedure.
 
You, sir, are an absolute fountain of graciousness, compassion, understanding and intelligence. The world itself should be humbled before your glory.

agree
 
So much for innocent until proven guilty. I guess that only applies to dudes who pull knives on the cops and resist arrest.

Says poster who applies "innocent no matter what" to Team Trump and his Trumpists.
 
Is the person who was shot in the head and Kyle's cell call (I shot someone) missing from the lawyers statement.?

After reading the statement it seems to miss that part of the timeline of events.
 
Says poster who applies "innocent no matter what" to Team Trump and his Trumpists.

Just another childish lie. Feel free to prove that if it stops your from sweating.
 
So much for innocent until proven guilty. I guess that only applies to dudes who pull knives on the cops and resist arrest.

Tlrmin you hit the nail on the head. One of the lawyers representing Kyle Rittenhouse as you mentioned is Lin Wood. He is the same lawyer that represented Sandmann that so far has has gotten 2 settlements for his client for the Goebbels media we now have with others to come.

What is going on now is any policemen/women, that dare fire a shot at a black person out of control is being tried in the media before this police officer is investigated . The media an arm of the Democratic party are pushing this as is the Democratic stronghold on social media. Within 24 hours the police person that shot a black person has been determined guilty prior to an investigation!!!!!!!. But everyday in this country white people are shot for out of control behavior but that is not reported.

To tell you how bad this has gotten Lin Wood was censored and his account on Twitter was shutdown for several hours after he claimed that Rittenhouse was innocent. Lin Wood said “I’m sending a message that Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent.” Then his account is shut down. Then several hours later claims it was a "mistake".

Lin Wood then said “I’m going to take Jack Dorsey’s ass down…”

Lin Wood argued the action against his account is the latest example of Twitter censorship of conservative voices and he intends to file a lawsuit against the social media giant and its CEO Jack Dorsey.

“I’m going to take Jack Dorsey’s ass down,” Wood told Fox News. “He has been abusing the First Amendment of this country for his own agenda.”






Never in all my life did I think this country would be facing a Goebbels's propaganda media. But it is here......
 
“I’m going to take Jack Dorsey’s ass down,” Wood told Fox News. “He has been abusing the First Amendment of this country for his own agenda.”

This meaning of this statement is pretty ambiguous, but I'm not sure if I would want a lawyer working for me who doesn't understand that Twitter doesn't have to comply with the First Amendment.
 
This meaning of this statement is pretty ambiguous, but I'm not sure if I would want a lawyer working for me who doesn't understand that Twitter doesn't have to comply with the First Amendment.

What? Everyone who operates within this country has to comply with the fundamentals found in the Constitution and the laws of the land. Can CEO's be prosecuted for violating civil rights? Yes. Can CEO's be prosecuted for denying any rights that are established in our Constitution and laws passed by Congress? Yes.
 
What? Everyone who operates within this country has to comply with the fundamentals found in the Constitution and the laws of the land. Can CEO's be prosecuted for violating civil rights? Yes. Can CEO's be prosecuted for denying any rights that are established in our Constitution and laws passed by Congress? Yes.

Oh boy. You might want to consider reading a Wikipedia page or something before you start opinion on constitutional law.
 
Yeah, he wanted that so bad that he ran away as fast as he could to avoid confrontation. But that was all part of his master plan, along with scrubbing off the graffiti and treating the injuries caused by rioters.

:laughat:

He did the opposite of running away. He traveled from his home across a state line with a firearm looking to shoot people.
 
Oh boy. You might want to consider reading a Wikipedia page or something before you start opinion on constitutional law.
You might want to look into the fundamentals that all law is suppose to be based on. Lin Wood when he says he is going after Dorsey on social media, would not do so unless he had a case.
Your suggestion of reading a Wikipedia page was humerous.
 
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