Kyle Rittenhouse just received a show of support from two people who also defended themselves against the mob. And it sends a huge message.
Inside the courthouse Tuesday morning, the final 12 jurors received the Rittenhouse self-defense case and began deliberations. Rittenhouse is charged with five serious crimes for killing or wounding three men during the Kenosha riots on Aug. 25, 2020.
Outside the courthouse, it’s beginning to look like a circus. Black Lives Matter protesters on their bullhorns are shouting, “No justice, no peace,” veiled threats of violence, and “Black Lives Matter.” It’s not known if the jury can hear the loudspeakers or if they saw the almost life-sized poster depicting Rittenhouse with KKK on it.
A few Black Lives Matter protesters outside the Kenosha County Courthouse this morning, with chants referencing Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum as the jury deliberates here in the Rittenhouse case #Kenosha pic.twitter.com/pSrwDeWN8v
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) November 16, 2021
Cameras also captured Mark and Patricia McCloskey outside the courthouse, and they said they’d probably be there until the jury reaches a verdict.
The McCloskeys became infamous when they defended their property with guns after hundreds of protesters broke into their gated community while hunting for the mayor’s house.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey spotted in Kenosha to support Rittenhouse as trial nears close https://t.co/4AaePQGsyC
— Fox News Originals (@FNCOriginals) November 16, 2021
Mark McCloskey told reporters outside the Kenosha Courthouse that they came to support Rittenhouse, telling reporters why he was there, though he doesn’t know Rittenhouse.
I have no relationship. I’m just an American citizen. I’m Mark McCloskey from St. Louis, and we’re just here to support people who exercise their second amendment rights to defend themselves, particularly when the government abdicates that duty and fails to protect its citizens. If you defund the police, and the government is not there to protect the citizens, citizens have to protect themselves.
“If you defund the police, and the government is not there to protect the citizens, citizens have to protect themselves” Mark McCloskey speaking outside the Kenosha courthouse today, as the Rittenhouse case nears a verdict #Kenosha pic.twitter.com/d4CkMBJ7Xi
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) November 16, 2021
He also said that he and his wife would be there throughout the day because he believes a verdict will come today even though “I don’t know [what it will be], we haven’t been in there to hear all the evidence.” He continued, “but what we understand and what I’ve seen, I’m hoping for acquittal on all counts. We’re going to be out here till we get a verdict, I suspect.”
It’s unknown whether the show of support will help or hurt Rittenhouse’s case in the court of public opinion, but it will probably enrage a few lefties.
Hey @RekietaMedia apparently the McCloskeys are in Kenosha right now, in the courtroom. This picture is them outside the courthouse earlier. pic.twitter.com/7wFInnv3K6
— The Spectre Report (@TheSpectreRep) November 15, 2021
McCloskey is running for the Senate in Missouri. He told Fox News that the Rittenhouse prosecution was “politically prosecuted, as were we, and we’re hoping that the jury find him not guilty on all counts and that he can go home a free man.”
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