Jacob Blake - From Victimizer to Victim

Kyle Rittenhouse: Hero or villain? Just as Jacob Blake was taken from victimizer to victim in the blink of an eye, so too has a 17-year-old kid been thrown into a cast that he doesn't fit in by all the available evidence. In this episode, we talk about the video evidence, what really happened, and what it means for Kyle and those injured or killed. Hint: there's a lot of stoopid involved. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooting-video.html https://journaltimes.com/news/local/read-the-criminal-charges-filed-against-kyle-rittenhouse/article_58490a6a-f25d-51fc-b2d1-a7d58ac685b1.html https://thepeoplesledger.com/three-rioters-shot-in-kenosha-had-criminal-backgrounds-one-had-ties-to-militant-group/ Intro: TheBadgeLife.com: High-quality law enforcement apparel. Promo ends soon. ONLY 7 MORE MEMBERSHIP SPOTS LEFT BEFORE THE DRAWING!!! Use POLICE ACADEMY at checkout for free shipping and a free patch thrown in with your order! We have 18 Exclusive, Limited Edition, FIRST 50 Tumblers left. That means the next 18 people to subscribe to our top level tier will be the last to get their hands on one for the rest of all time. Don’t wait. These incidents are complex and take a lot of research. I’m slow to get this info out and I hate it. Members have access to short, initial-take videos on these events that I put out much closer to the actual event. Time to talk about the Kyle Rittenhouse and Co incident. Theme: JACOB GOOD, KYLE BAD, AMERICANS STOOPID Unedited Show Notes: First: Ben Shapiro For the 100th time Ben, get the facts right on Jacob Blake. He has the knife in his hand when he walks around the front of the car. He did not pick it up off the floorboard!! Ben is usually very accurate but I’ve been waiting for a correction on this mistake Initial Details of Incident: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooting-video.html Charges “Rittenhouse is accused of killing Anthony Huber, 26, of Silver Lake; and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, of Kenosha. first-degree intentional homicide (a) Except as provided in sub. (2), whoever causes the death of another human being with intent to kill that person or another is guilty of a Class A felony. (2) Mitigating circumstances. The following are affirmative defenses to prosecution under this section which mitigate the offense to 2nd-degree intentional homicide under s. 940.05: (a) Adequate provocation. Death was caused under the influence of adequate provocation as defined in s. 939.44. (b) Unnecessary defensive force. Death was caused because the actor believed he or she or another was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that the force used was necessary to defend the endangered person, if either belief was unreasonable. (c) Prevention of felony. Death was caused because the actor believed that the force used was necessary in the exercise of the privilege to prevent or terminate the commission of a felony, if that belief was unreasonable. (d) Coercion; necessity. Death was caused in the exercise of a privilege under s. 939.45 (1). (3) Burden of proof. When the existence of an affirmative defense under sub. (2) has been placed in issue by the trial evidence, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the facts constituting the defense did not exist in order to sustain a finding of guilt under sub. (1). Other Charges: The Illinois teenager also faces felony charges of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and two charges of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, and a misdemeanor charge of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. All felony charges came with "use of a dangerous weapon" modifier. In both killings, video shows Rittenhouse being pursued before shots are fired. Although some claimed that Rosenbaum had thrown a weapon at Rittenhouse, the criminal complaint filed with the Kenosha County District Attorney states that he threw a plastic bag. Video shows Huber attempting to strike Rittenhouse when Huber was shot in the chest. According to a report of an autopsy, Huber's gunshot wound to his chest "perforated his heart, aorta, pulmonary artery and right lung." Rosenbaum's autopsy showed "a gunshot wound to the right groin which fractured his pelvis, a gunshot to the back which perforated his right lung and liver, a gunshot wound to the left hand, a superficial gunshot wound to his lateral left thigh, and a graze gunshot wound to the right side of his forehead." ” Journal Times People Shot: Joseph Rosenbaum, 36 Rosenbaum was found guilty of engaging in “sexual conduct with a minor” in Arizona’s Pima County in March 2002, almost two decades before his death, according to an online database of prison inmates in Arizona, via the state’s department of corrections. Per that online portal, he was sentenced to prison or parole for roughly 15 years. The state’s law defines the felony offense as “intentionally or knowingly engaging in sexual intercourse or oral sexual contac...