Well, you are correct that one can never know for sure someone else’s heart/mind, but through video evidence/interviews of Kyle before the shooting, he went to Kenosha to protect private property, give medical attention (however unqualified he might have been) and to clean up the area. We know he was cleaning graffiti prior to the infamous night. So from his words and actions prior to the shootings, we have a good idea of his intentions.
Had he gone to an actual protest event, like not the nightly rioting and burnings of private property, but where people were actually holding a planned and organized protest with signs and chanting, probably during daylight hours, and had stood there with his weapon trying to intimidate protestors, you may have a point. However, that certainly didn’t happen.
He went to an area where property was being destroyed with the intention to help people who were hurt and to prevent further property damage. I don’t think it mattered to him what color the people were who were doing the damage.
That being said, the majority of BLM inspired rioting that has taken place in this country has been done by overwhelmingly white rioters.
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So yeah, even if the rioting came to pass in direct response to the Blake shooting, that doesn’t mean that it was all, or even a majority black group of people that Rittenhouse set out to protect property from.
Furthermore, even if it WAS an entirely black group of people burning a city and causing destruction, you can’t claim it’s white supremacy to try to stop that.
Bottom line is there’s about a total of zero evidence that this kid had racist motives…but when has that ever stopped the narrative in the past? Fact of the matter is that one side starts with the narrative and hopes they can find facts that can back it up. And even when those facts aren’t there, they have people like you who have already bought the narrative and frankly don’t seem to care about those pesky facts.
And let’s not be fools about this, the fact that three white people were shot was 100% intentional, secondary to the fact that it was three white people that were actually trying to physically harm him. There were certainly black people around Kyle that night; and don’t you think if his motives were racist he would’ve shot at least one black person?
