Ever since Kyle Rittenhouse went to Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020 and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters with a semi automatic rifle, he’s been transformed into a folk-hero by many in the GOP, right-wing media, and in the far-right.
Among his new friends are the Proud Boys, a far-right street-fighting gang who have adopted the teenager as their unofficial mascot, put his face on t-shirts, and even took him out drinking.
Prosecutors are arguing that Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha, where protests against a police shooting of a Black man were underway, with the intent of committing an act of violence. And they think that his recent documented fraternization with the Proud Boys should be entered into evidence to support that argument, according to court documents filed this week.
Much like members of the Proud Boys take pride in violence, the defendant is evidently proud that he killed two people and seriously wounded a third,” prosecutors wrote.
On Jan. 5, Rittenhouse, 18, while out on bail, was photographed in a bar in Racine County (10 miles from Kenosha, and about 24 miles from his hometown of Antioch, Illinois) with known Proud Boys, wearing a t-shirt saying “Free as Fuck” and flashing the white power ‘OK’ sign. The Proud Boys also serenaded him with “Proud of Your Boy,” a song from the broadway adaptation of “Aladdin.”
Neanderthals do as they are.. .animals.
“The white power OK sign”. You must mean the OK sign that’s been around forever that recently was assigned a “white power” name by leftist radicals, right? Yeah, that makes self defense into murder, see?