Since none of the idiots blasting this guy’s ID all over twitter can be bothered to show actual, incriminating details, I had to go find them myself. Specifically, other video we know is him that matches usefully identifying details from shooting video, like his back with the black webbing from whatever that vest thing is he’s wearing, and white socks.
Yeah unless the pic in the far upper right is doctored to add the tattoo that’s 98% him. I’ve watched the shooting video a ton and the others. Same outfit.
His best move now is to come forward and claim he thought the PP guy (who very well may have been also concealing a handgun) was pulling a gun. Pretty reasonable self-defense claim unless some witness or video shows he was stalking the guy with his gun out the whole time.
Michael Forest Reinoehl calls himself an anti-fascist and has posted videos and photos of demonstrations he attended since late June, accompanied by the hashtags #blacklivesmatter, #anewnation and #breonnataylor.
Maybe not so much. CP isn’t pumped about this at all. They don’t like losers who bring mace to a gunfight and get shot. And of course the PP guy was a felon who got busted with firearms. So that doesn’t play so great with the normies either.
I feel like the best case for Trump is property destruction w/o massive retaliation (like night 1 in Kenosha). Once Rittenhouse shot those guys the narrative flipped to angry armed right-wingers. Good for Trump’s base but bad for the squeamish moderates who just want all this to end.
Also we have gotten sooooooooooo lucky that it’s all been white on white shooting so far. Really fucks with any race-war narrative and motivation for the boogaloo side. I don’t think they expected that their first casualty in the great race war would be from a white guy, or their first two kills and one maiming would also all be white guys.
Imagine if instead of white on white in Portland it was black on white. Or just imagine if the antifa guy (or worse a black guy) somehow shot a white woman who was riding along with PP or the Trumpers. Game over man. These are really dangerous times right now.
Sure. But you can tell their heart’s not in it. The Kenosha thread still has 10x the posting rate of the Portland thread. They like guys like Rittenhouse who don’t get shot. Being underarmed is a super beta move to them.
I do think this could play to the normies. But the dead guy’s record makes that a bit trickier.
I mean, I don’t wear them with like dress pants or jack tube socks up to my knees like I did as a kid in the 1980’s. I’m not a monster (or, alternatively, have the ability to make such a bold fashion statement).
Too late. Your far left socialist sock choices have been recorded. It’s tough because we appreciate the honest introspection, but some level of reeducation will be necessary.
Absolute worst form of journalism. Mike Baker - who was on the ground in Portland and I know damn well knows who Patriot Prayer is - described them as a “group dedicated to Christianity and small government” in the NY Times. But I almost wonder if some editor screwed him on that and he can’t come out and complain about it or lose his job. His twitter feed is pretty sympathetic to the protesters.
They broke a girl’s back in an unprovoked raid on Cider Riot (filmed by awesome journo Andy Ngo - who was there when they planned it). They face multiple felonies over it. They’re way worse than the proud boys.
But apparently to the MSM no digging can be done and PP just sprang from Zeus’s forehead in 2020.
And let’s all remember that hardcore Trumpfans literally think the MSM is radical left and wants to replace our democracy with Marxism. That’s how batshit crazy this country is right now.
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