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A former spokesperson for Kyle Rittenhouse says he became disillusioned with his ex-client after learning that he had sent text messages pledging to “fucking murder” shoplifters outside a pharmacy before later shooting two people to death during racial justice protests in Wisconsin in 2020.

Dave Hancock made that remark about Rittenhouse – for whom he also worked as a security guard – on a Law & Crime documentary that premiered on Friday. The show explored the unsuccessful criminal prosecution of Rittenhouse, who killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

As Hancock told it on The Trials of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 90-minute film’s main subject had “a history of things he was doing prior to [the double slaying], specifically patrolling the street for months with guns and borrowing people’s security uniforms, doing whatever he could to try to get into some kind of a fight”.

Hancock nonetheless said he initially believed Rittenhouse’s claims of self-defense when he first relayed his story about fatally shooting Rosenbaum and Huber. Yet that changed when he later became aware of text messages that surfaced as part of a civil lawsuit filed by the family of one of the men slain in Kenosha demanding wrongful death damages from Rittenhouse.

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[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 14 points 2 hours ago

All those people that defended this douche when I said there was proof of intention that was dismissed by a biased judge can fuck all the way off.

[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 151 points 9 hours ago

Wait are you trying to tell me that the kid who took a gun he didn’t own to a state he didn’t live in to shoot protestors he didn’t know ostensibly to protect businesses he’s unaffiliated with wanted to kill people?? Wow I am shocked. Shocked!

Honestly of course he wanted to murder people, anyone who disputes that is and has always been deliberately lying.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 hours ago

Murderous sociopaths gonna murderousociapathize

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 74 points 10 hours ago

This fuck should be in jail.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago

Sounds like he will be soon enough considering the path he's been on.

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

I thought the same thing about George Zimmerman, but despite multiple domestic violence arrests involving a gun, and numerous other scandals he’s apparently still free, living his best life.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Good point.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 hours ago

Jail or Presidential prospect.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Or assassin after his brain can no longer handle the cognitive dissonance.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Por qué no los dos?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 47 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Sure wish this had come to light during the trial.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 65 points 10 hours ago

A ton of evidence was blocked iirc, this was probably included.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 57 points 9 hours ago

The judge was doing his damnedest to make sure we all knew where they stood.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Had to check if this was theonion@

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