‘I believed things he told me that I now understand to be … lies,’ Dave Hancock says in new Rittenhouse documentary
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 Chicago 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”.
Remember the video of him getting into a fight with some teenage girl just a few days before he killed those people? The video they wouldn’t let the jury see because it might show that Rittenhouse was an escalation-seeking rage-aholic? The video that his spokesperson has definitely seen?
Yeah, he was never disillusioned. He knew who this bastard was all along. He just stopped making money off the kid, is all.
Congratulations, US legal system! You have encouraged a murderous vigilante!
“Good guys with guns” as a slogan was always going to turn out this way.
That’s one of the many reasons Americans are such stupid people, they see the world in a “good guy / bad guy” dichotomy, where they are the good guys. And “good guys” and their actions are all based on beliefs and opinions. It’s justification for YOUR atrocities while acting disgusted at others.
Wait you mean when he grabbed a rifle and traveled an inordinate distance to the scene of a riot and shot two people to death, he wasn’t just an innocent bystander after all?
he couldnt see his targets through his tears
Can’t wait till the IRS fucks this little bitch over so hard.
One of the ways that I enjoyed shitting on Kyle Rittenhouse, was to say that I would never want to be around anyone who now has a taste for human blood.
That was supposed to be hyperbolic.
He deliberately sought out an altercation and he deliberately brought his gun.
Imagine being such a bootlicker that you want to kill people for property crime, even when that property isn’t yours. What a loser.
He just wanted to kill people. That they were black made it more attractive, and the property crime was a convenient excuse.
I hope he dies a bloody death
I wish an even more tragic fate. I hope he gets to live in a world filled with tolerance and empathy while he wallows away in hate and fear.
Okay but can he at least wallow with broken legs?
I wish him a life of obscurity, poverty, and extreme loneliness. May he achieve nothing and be just smart enough to realize what a waste his entire existence has been.
Well shit, that happened to me without shooting anybody
I hope his kids treat him like he treats the world.
He would have, if he didn’t have his rifle on him.
Doubt. No way he would be out there without his rifle. The man’s a coward, he can’t even face the consequences of his actions.
Rittenhouse has a hero complex, and can’t accept he’s nothing more than a deranged little shithead everyone knows is just a murderer that got away with it.
No one likes him, not even the right. The right used him when he was useful and then threw him away. How sad and pathetic that those were his “best” days, and they are behind him.
He’ll now try to regain his “glory” days by reliving that time he murdered innocent people. And hopefully this time he’s put away for life.
Nah, hopefully this time he bites off more than he can chew and the most that the prosecutor is able to charge his next victim with is self defense or involuntary manslaughter.
He’s like JD Vance Jr
I wish I was still on reddit for this shit. I remember when it happened and every fucking bootlicking Magoo was defending this shit stain and using the law as if they understood self defense in that context. They worshipped that guy for being “a good guy with a gun” and had every excuse in the world for why he was a victim…
Man I hope they’re seeing this.
Some of them are already here.
Yeah I was pretty shocked at how widespread his defenders were. Regardless of whether what he did was technically self defense or not, it’s clear he’s a bloodthirsty right-wing fanatic. There’s no need to defend his public image, even if you agree with the verdict.
The people defending him were also bloodthirsty right-wing fanatics.
They’d come up with new and exciting logical loopdeloops to explain how he’s still the victim in this situation.
This video has been around since before the trial, tells you everything you needed to know about Rittenhouse’s intentions. https://youtu.be/l3B_tpccOnw
This headline/title is in bad need of some commas.
In the headline, “pledging to ‘murder’ shoplifters” is a restrictive participial phrase modifying “texts.” Restrictive elements are not offset by commas.
Thank god it’s not just me. I had to re-read it 10 times.
Are “racial justice protests” synonymous with looting and destruction of property?
Imagine bootlicking so much for private property and capitalists that you think it is more sacred than people’s lives. Let alome that you think racism is fake or that the atrocities that people of color went through isn’t such a big deal.
Oh fuck off with the bootlicking bullshit. Such a tired argument and does not apply to my comment or me.
I’ll just cry like a little bitch in court again. It worked last time!
