They're certainly trained to take a suspect armed with a knife seriously. Unlike the average joe, who is prone to underestimate stabbing weapons. The police tried to apprehend him, JB resisted and pulled out his knife, police pulled out their guns and tasers, tried to tase him, didn't work. End of story.

The entire situation could've been even more easily avoided. NOT resisting arest! Now i can call myself Captain Hindsight, too, like the rest of you. Dusting of my hands and feel good about myself.

Pointing out the criminal history is trivial to anyone incapable of acknowledging the importance of context. It is an indicator of the criminal and violent potential within the mob. We see them start fires (right next to a gas station) and behaving aggressively, maybe because someone is standing between them and their precious loot. Rosenbaum, the first one shot, at the front behaving aggressive, showing disregard for his own life by words ("shoot me n*****, shoot me") and later by action. He propably thought babyfaced Rittenhouse is gonna be a pushover.

We constantly see violent rioters/looters causing serious injuries and even death. Where are your indicators this was not life-or-death in this very moment from Kyles perspective? They wanted to disarm him, nothing else? How do you know? You must be clairvoyant... 

"I don't know about you, but pointing an AR-15 at an unarmed person will probably be enough to make them back off."

Unless i was given no other choice... I know i wouldn't be so suicidal to head on attack someone armed with a gun, or a knife, or anything that clearly puts me at a disadvantage.

"That's not self defense but the exact reason why idiots should not bring guns to these places."

Well, there would be no need to, if police could do their job unobstructed. Now people complaining about the consequences of their own doing. Splendid.

"The people in the video are heard telling people he shot someone, and they seemingly try to grab his gun when he falls over. One of the people trying to stop him were seemingly holding a gun, but they did not fire at the killer for the duration of the video, even after he fell over. Unfortunately the killer didn't have the same regard for human life and didn't hesitate to shoot and kill them when they got close enough to take away his weapon."

Actually, when taking a closer look, Kyle aims his weapon at Gaige (guy with pistole), who puts his hands in the air as sign of surrender (with gun in right hand), Kyle does not shoot and lowers the rifle, then Gaige re-engages and quickly moves his arms down, Kyle reacts and shoots him in the biceps. We see Gaige come running the moment Kyle is on the ground and attacked. Did he have a clear shot? Why did he pull the gun out, for what purpose? According to a Buddy of Gaige, the one thing he regrets is "not killing the kid".

https://www.rt.com/usa/499259-kenosha-victim-facebook-killing-kid/

He wanted to disarm and apprehend him? What for? Kyle himself told Gaige that he is going to the police.

But no, we have to play the righteous vigilante and attack the heavily armed guy who poses no threat... because someone said so.

"Do not try to conflate peaceful protesters with the violent ones.
This kind of dishonest generalization and dehumanization has no place here. Don't do it again."

That is your misguiding interpretation, but your misinformation is not my doing. Since BLM as organisation has never stepped forward to condemn violent acts and distance themselves - when going by their own words and their own slogan "silence is violence" is evidently in support of rioting and looting -, i don't see anything wrong with pointing out the true purpose behind the "peaceful protests".

If tazing didn't work, then they could have simply circled him, ripped the knife out of his hand, tackle him to the ground, THEN cuff him. Which they should have done while he was down on his knees. Or here's another idea, why not tackle him down from behind while he was walking around his car? Or if using their guns was absolutely necessary, shoot for the hand that has the knife and disarm him THAT way. And leave it at that. But don't fucking shoot him in the back 7 times. And don't even let him get to car door in the first place. At that point, they weren't trying to apprehend him, they were trying to kill him. And when does an individual resisting arrest justify trying to kill him/her? I wasn't aware that a death sentence was a suitable punishment for being a stupid dipshit. Sure, the situation could have been more easily avoided if JB hadn't resisted. But how the cops poorly responded after that only made the situation so much worse than it should have been. All parties involved are guilty. Blake for being a dumbass and not complying with the police; And the police for badly handling the situation and damn near killing a man when there were much simpler, non-lethal ways they could have gone about it.

You're calling them "protest" and wanna talk to me about misleading lol. I'm not one to get hung up on semantics so I don't care what people call them. For you though I'll rephrase and say rioting and looting in response to cops poorly handling criminals that happen to be black. Either way I think most people could understand the point I was making. 

The newest outrage seems to be the President suggesting to people to vote twice. First by mail and then in person. This is actually really interesting, because he actually has a valid point here. The US democracy is in such a bad place that it is actually possible for valid sent in mail vote to not count because they came in late thanks to a sabotaged postal service.

Think about that for a second. You take your time, you inform yourself, you get your mail ballot, you send it in and there is a real chance that your vote will not count. This is so surreal. Surreal enough that the suggestion by a talking orange actually makes sense and should probably be followed.

It probably should not be followed because in North Carolina at least it's a felony punishable by up to two years in prison...

After the RNC spent half of its convention trying to convince black Americans he's not racist.

Demographics of the US are shifting. The only plays possible are drastically improve among white voters, or change their platform to bring in other races. It's clear the path that Trump will take. If it doesn't work, it could literally be the end of the party.

Funny how the guy who has spend the last 4 years fearmongering about voter fraud is now promoting voter fraud to get reelected 🤡

Then that law needs to be abolished unless they have a guarantee that your mail ballot counts.

It doesn't matter if he was defending himself in the moment, he travelled far with an assault rifle with intent to stir up shit. Do you not understand how law works? Do you not understand the concept of mens rea? It means he had intention and knowingly did a bad thing and thus is culpable for his actions. Any jury and any judge would take one look at the evidence we have and say 'yeah, he clearly  wanted this to happen' and throw his ass in jail. 

You don't get to perfectly equip yourself for a fight, travel a long distance, go to a place where tensions are already high, and wave a gun around then claim self defense if someone attacks you. 

That's not how the law works. That's not how logic or rationality works. You're being remarkably dense and I genuinely don't understand how you could possibly think you're right here. 

Shooting someone in the head with a rifle for throwing a plastic bag at you is not self defense. That shouldn't need to be explained.