Rittenhouse, who fired in what seems like clear self-defense. He threw a plastic bag at Rittenhouse (which may have contained a chemical bomb) and allegedly lunged for Kyle Rittenhouse’s weapon. One Joseph Rosenbaum, a sex offender who was taunting Kyle Rittenhouse and screaming racial slurs before the incident, was the first attacker. The New York Times and NBC News have broken down exactly what happened that night. Kendi’s blather notwithstanding, what happened is more straightforward. Ibram Kendi, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and well-known “antiracist” author, sweepingly declared that Derek Chauvin and Kyle Rittenhouse “compressed 413 years of American history into a cellphone video” that revealed the “violent ‘self-defense’ of white male supremacy.” He also invoked “colonialism, capitalism, slavery and slave trading, Indian removal, manifest destiny, colonization, the Ku Klux Klan, Chinese exclusion, disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, eugenics, massive resistance, ‘law and order,’ Islamophobia, family separation,” all “in the name of defending life or civilization or freedom.” It’s quite a burden for the 18-year-old to bear.
Rittenhouse’s critics see him not just as a young man, but as a stand-in for a whole system. Rittenhouse probably would not have had to go to Kenosha. If the Guard had been used last year, Mr. The National Guard is on standby in Kenosha because trouble may result after the verdict. He shot his attackers on the second night of disorder. Rittenhouse - whom the police once identified as “Hispanic” in a separate, traffic case - was protecting property and people in Kenosha during a riot by Black Lives Matter supporters. Nonetheless, his case is the largest racial controversy in the country today, drawing far more media attention than the Ahmaud Arbery case or the civil suit against Unite the Right organizers in Charlottesville. Kyle Rittenhouse shot three white men in Kenosha, Minnesota last year.