The police didn’t prevent it. Facebook did nothing. The right wing complains about the protestors but ignore the white vigilantes with guns in Kenosha, Idaho, Michigan and elsewhere.
If you’re wondering why the white kid who shot & killed multiple protestors could walk calmly to police immediately after without getting apprehended, here he is minutes earlier going up to their armored trucks to get water they offered him & his armed militia crew. https://t.co/KHUfCxOJDG
— Malaika Jabali (@MalaikaJabali) August 26, 2020
Every American needs to watch and share the words of Letetra Widman – Jacob Blake’s sister.
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@DemWrite) August 26, 2020
“I'm not sad. I stopped crying years ago. I‘ve been watching police murder people who look like me for years," she said. "I don't want your pity, I want change." pic.twitter.com/A9CM5ryFX9
BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, IL, has been charged with first-degree murder in Kenosha, Wisconsin, according to Lake County, Illinois Clerk of Courts records https://t.co/8SxvbgrfFe pic.twitter.com/kBoz6RwUJB
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) August 26, 2020
This is Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, an Illinois resident who was just charged with first-degree murder of two people last night in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This teen, whose social media history is full of misogyny and white supremacy, had easy access to an AR-15.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 26, 2020
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It is being reported that the shooter is a 17 year old who drove to #Kenosha from Antioch, Illinois with an AR-15 looking for trouble. He murdered 2 people and wounded a man who will lose his arm as a result.
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) August 26, 2020
Where is @realDonaldTrump complaining about outside agitators? pic.twitter.com/dBaF7R88zK
It is what it is https://t.co/nQZZQdmsSB
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 26, 2020
At least two Facebook users reported the Kenosha Guard account for inciting violence prior to the killings. In each case, the group and its counter-protest event were examined by Facebook moderators and found not to be in violation, the Verge reports.https://t.co/uYnJz4Aroi
— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) August 26, 2020
"Footage from the Des Moines, Iowa rally on January 30 show Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a TikTok video from the event."https://t.co/JBHmzoyKmN
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) August 26, 2020
Facebook let a self styled militia group use the platform to organize and promote an event in Wisconsin last night.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) August 26, 2020
They have a huge platform, but surely they should have special teams monitoring for stuff like this around hugely volatile situations like this.
I can’t recall any pairing of events as closely-comparable-yet-starkly-different:
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 26, 2020
-Black man is shot in the back 7 times, while getting in car w his kids;
-White youth carrying AR-15 walks away, after killing people.
By the same police force, in the same town, in the same week.
Baby hands and forearms on an AR-15. Rittenhouse will be tried as an adult for his actions, as he should be. He pulled the trigger. But millions of Americans are complicit in the policies that put such a weapon into such hands and left two families so preventably bereaved. pic.twitter.com/3CPhpjHH4O
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 26, 2020
Sad! 