With the same lawyer who secured defamation settlements from the media for Nick Sandmann now joining the defense of Kenosha, Wisconsin shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, a whole lot of tweets might be soon getting scrubbed in a hurry.
Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested and charged with premeditated murder for shooting three rioters - two of them fatally - in Kenosha on Tuesday evening, during the second day of Black Lives Matter riots.
On Thursday, however, attorney Lin Wood - who represented Sandmann in suits against the Washington Post and CNN - offered to defend him pro bono.
That could spell bad news for almost everyone who piled onto Rittenhouse over the past 48 hours. One of the most outspoken was Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), member of the progressive 'Squad,'
who went so far as to call him a "white supremacist domestic terrorist."
Actual facts trickling in from Kenosha, however, suggest otherwise.
Videos from the riot indicate Rittenhouse acted in self-defense in all three cases. There is no evidence he was a "white supremacist" of any kind. Furthermore, the people Rittenhouse shot -
all white - were filmed clearly attacking him, prompting even the
New York Times to seriously entertain the idea of legitimate
self-defense in this instance.
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