Ladies and gentlemen, you have done me proud in this thread.
I am a Kenosha native. I spent decades there. Born and raised. I can tell you almost anything you want to know about it. I graduated from the high school that Kyle was evilly scrubbing graffiti off of. I lived at one point roughly 300 feet away from the car lot that was burned, and a block away from everything else that took place that night. I paid speeding tickets in the exact same courthouse that the chimps and chimp-adjacent were trying to break into last year, and which coincidentally hosted this very trial. I watched my fucking cuty burn, I watched a bunch of opportunistic domestic terrorists loot my city with impunity to "raise awareness of systemic racism" sparked by a shooting that had nothing to do with it before anyone even had the facts, and I watched with even greater sorrow as an innocent kid who was there trying to do good, trying to actually stand up for his community, was branded a vile white supremacist who "crossed state lines" (Kenosha sits directly on the border, and his town sits directly on the other side of it) with the intention to kill - as opposed to, as multitudes of videos from a multitude of sources demonstrated - fought back against the most clear-cut case of self-defense that has ever been captured on video.
This case hit extremely close to me. That was my high school. On two different occasions, once for about 16 straight years, Sheridan road (where all this took place) was directly behind my home. I walked those blocks, down that road, a hundred times. If I were still living there, I could have watched everything from my window. I know Kenosha. I AM Kenosha. I know what the town is normally like, where the problem areas are, I've watched the exponential growth of the town (in particular the influx of surrounding Milwaukee and Chicago trash) of the last twenty years. I've watched my friends and family move away one by one because they're tired of the kind of shit that took place last year. If not for the fact that much of my family is buried there, the town isn't the same. But it's still MY town.
I don't have a stake in the gun debate. I don't have any strong political affiliations. What I care about is justice, decency, and common sense. This case should never have been brought to trial. It was a 17 year-old kid whose brain won't be fully developed for another decade, trying to do right by a community that he loved, and getting assaulted by all manner of scum as a result. He defended his life. The state tried to say that we don't have a right to defend ourselves when people are trying to kill us. The jury let them know that, even in a society that is more exceptional now than it's probably ever been, that this is not a right to be taken away.
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is the second most important trial in the state's history (after the 1851 case that abolished the state's death penalty). The media, in particular the left, has tried to distort what a multitude of sources, including video evidence, have proven to be concrete, inarguable fact. And throughout it all, almost all of you were smart enough to see through the bullshit and not be swayed.
I am proud of you. I am legitimately proud of you. Thank you for supporting Kyle, my city of Kenosha, and simple fucking common sense.
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