Massad Ayoob's opinion about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial - Critical Mas episode 22

hey gang welcome to the wilson combat channel or welcome back as the case may be we're at the circle wc ranch bill wilson's place in texas my name is massa yube i'm one of the regular presenters here and because i still work a good bit in the criminal justice system i've been asked to comment on what some of our viewers and commentators have asked for comments on the outcome of the kyle rittenhouse case and kenosha wisconsin uh you'll recall that kyle was the seventh then 17 year old kid who went up to kenosha about 20-30 minutes from his home in illinois to assist in the the clean up efforts and the security efforts in the rioting there that followed the shooting of jacob blake now if you look back the writing itself was totally unjustified jacob blake in the clearly in these iphone videos that triggered all the controversy was holding a knife the entire time police chased him and tried to keep him from getting into a car that was not his and driving off with two children he had no right to drive often that knife was in his hand when the police officer shot him seven times the officer was in close proximity and in great danger of being stabbed what should have been a headline black children rescued from knife-wielding kidnapper became cross-racial racially motivated shooting of a man shot seven times in the back while he was unarmed the city erupted in the flames kyle rittenhouse who was carrying an ar-15 rifle exposed in the streets wound up shooting three men shooting out a fourth and killing two of the men that he shot he was charged with murder and the multiple lesser included offenses there are still people asking why he was acquitted well let's go back and look and anyone who really wants to know if you follow that trial which was archived on court tv and see what the jury saw you'll understand why he was acquitted they said 17 year old kid in the streets with a rifle it's illegal right in and of itself therefore everything he did was wrong andrew branca the commentator and attorney at law of self-defense dot com was the first to point out that a strict reading of the minutiae of wisconsin law said the kid under the circumstances was legal and the judge agreed if you're legal you're okay now was it smart to walk around in the streets with an ar-15 to go where you know there's trouble no of course not but a lot of people on our side in the gun world said boy the kid went someplace that it was stupid to go ah it's all his fault i can't say it's all his fault it was the nature of the circumstances the police officers who were there themselves testified more of the people in the streets that riot torn knight were armed than were not was a classic example of what's what's called a wisconsin doctrine of necessity you're allowed to break the law or to break convention in a situation where following the law would cause more human injury than breaking it when everyone else is armed and many of them are hostile to you who's trying to clean things up being armed might turn out to be a good idea the kid had paid for a friend of his who was 18 to buy the rifle with the plan that when he himself written the house turned 18 he would take possession of it and properly done through an ffl dealer that would have been totally legal it was not a straw man purchase per se and that's why [Music] rittenhouse was was clear on that was it smart to walk around with the gun the jury forgave him for it because of the nature of the circumstances the exigent circumstance did he go out there looking to shoot people no video showed him cleaning up graffiti which he had been doing before but when he found himself literally in something close to a war zone i for one can understand why he armed himself with the only gun that was available to him now if you look at these sequential four shootings each of them caught on video and the video is really what saved the kid the testimony of the medical examiner was when he shot the first man an extremely violent man a convicted pedophile who had just been released from a mental hold at the hospital because he had expressed suicidal intention bear in mind suicide is under directed homicide and that man's behavior and threats that night clearly showed the man was homicidal the evidence showed he was grabbing rittenhouse's gun clearly not with benevolent intent when he was shot and that is what cleared him on that count of murder the kid ran people followed him they were screaming get him get him there were even people screaming shoot him now bear in mind one of the rioters had fired a gunshot moments before rittenhouse first opened fire on the man trying to disarm it as he flees he's struck in the head with a skateboard if you look at a skateboard the sectional density of that hard heavy wood with metal attachments it's like being hit in the head with an axe handle but a magnum version he's stunned he goes down another man does a flying kick at him he fires two shots that that man misses the man keeps going and rittenhouse ceases fire the man who is coming at him with a skateboard he shoots in the chest and that wound is mortal the man staggers away the last man who's going to be shot runs up to him with a loaded chambered glock 27 40 caliber in his hand and if you look at the video is literally bringing it down to point at written house's head when rittenhouse fires the shot that explodes the bicep but as that man testified vaporized my bicep he turns and runs away screaming for a medic rittenhouse tries to run toward the police you see on the video his hands are raised the police tell him get out of the street he leaves and later turns himself in and that totality of the circumstances is what got him past the usual guilt-inducing element of flight equals guilt i thought his attorneys did an excellent job of breaking that case down of breaking down the witnesses against him and of explaining step by step shot by shot that every time that kid pulled the trigger he was justified it's very important that each time he ceased fire as soon as the threat against him had ceased as soon as the first man grabbing the gun fell when the man who tried to kick him in the head ran and kept going the kids ceased fire when he fired the single shot at the skateboard guy and that man turned and stepped staggered away rittenhouse ceased fire when he shot the man pointing the pistol at him and that man turned and ran he ceased fire and one important lesson from this is knowing when to stop shooting is every bit as critical as knowing when to start we saw a whole lot of bs in that trial as far as the guns the something we've seen for years the demonization of the ar-15 rifle and the corollary demonization of the person who owns it and we have another youtube video on archive that explains the rationale in detail of the use of the ar-15 and self-defense and i would refer you to that you saw the attorney pick up the ar-15 and court swing it around and point it at everyone i've seen that before it's a cheap shyster trick the prosecutor or plaintiff's lawyer will always do that pretending to be the defendant so he's trying to psychologically terrorize the jury while he is in the role of the defendant it didn't work there thank goodness and generally doesn't work but it's something for you to watch out for they asked they accused him because he had full metal jacket ammunition in the rifle of reckless wanton disregard for human life because such bullets could go through and through anyone he shot and endanger other bystanders well it turns out none of them did no harm no foul and that was not lost on the jury the kid's answer should have been when asked why did you have that ammunition it was the only ammunition available to him just as that ar-15 was the only firearm available to him when he found himself in something that was certainly no longer a gun-free zone one of the few things the kid did wrong he was trying to he had some first aid training he was carrying a first aid kit and he did in fact apply some first aid to some of the rioters who had been injured that night he did not however have his emt certificate emergency medical technician at some point that night he had told someone that he did probably just to reassure them and give them more confidence that he was competent to treat them he handled that wisely and he admitted to to that falsehood in court never try to make things look better than they are when you admit yeah i did this one thing wrong the jury is thinking okay he said something that hurt himself he admitted that even though it hurt him that tells me i can believe him about the other things that help him so the kid handled that part right should he have gone at all i it's like saying well someone volunteered to rush into a burning building to rescue someone and got burned was it foolish to do that knowing they might have been killed well one man's foolishness is another man's courage and commitment and i leave that to your personal ethics and morality to look at in the end would it have been wiser for him to stay away absolutely and i'll close this with a point that i always seem to make we quote great masters of tactics like jeff cooper and others here i'm going to quote a poet and humorist from the old days ogden nash he said when called by a panther don't answer and hopefully a lot of people will learn from written house's ordeal that it might be the wisest thing to stay away from such conflagrations as much as you think it's righteous to go in and help i'd like to thank you for watching and i'd like to invite your comments all of us learn from each other there's a commentary section at the end of every wilson combat video and i hope you'll share your thoughts there until then i'll see you next time you

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Length: 11min 33sec (693 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 27 2022