A little boy with an assault rifle
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has defended 17-year-old Illinois double murder suspect Kyle Rittenhouse as a “little boy” who was merely “trying to protect his community” during the shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin last month.
Bondi appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show to discuss new video footage released by Rittenhouse’s attorney which paints the suspect in a favorable light and suggests his actions were justified in the “war zone” which had broken out in Kenosha in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
“You have got a 17-year-old out there trying to protect his state,” Bondi said, despite the fact the teenager traveled from his hometown in Antioch, Illinois, to attend the protests on August 25.
Well it’s the megastate of Illiconsin, or is it Wisckinois.
This morning former Florida Attorney General and outspoken Republican Trump supporter Pam Bondi called Kyle Rittenhouse “a little boy out there trying to protect his community.”
So, to review:
A 17-year-old black kid walking home from the store with a bag of Skittles, who had done absolutely nothing wrong? A criminal who deserved to die.
A 17-year-old white kid who illegally crossed state lines with assault weapons and murdered two people? Little boy hero.
That’s America, right there.
That’s the Republican Party, right there.
And THAT’s the goddamn problem, right there.
And it’s taking over.
I am astonished, daily, by the restraint shown by black people. How do they stand having this rubbed in their faces, on top of everything else?
TtW: long ago, I read a quote from a Black person who was asked why they didn’t rebell as they did in the 60’s. He answered something like “as soon as we tried SWAT would be there before you knew it”. Multiply that by at least 10 now with our militarized police.
Of course, eventually people can only take so much before they say what the fuck, let’s go down fighting.