In August, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that prosecutors had a video of Rittenhouse, sitting in a car outside a CVS, saying that he wished he had his assault rifle so he could shoot at men leaving the store. Rittenhouse, who was out patrolling chaotic streets with an assault weapon at night, was not. The irony is that had local police viewed Blake - who was shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha officer - in a similar fashion, there would not have been unrest in Kenosha to begin with.īut Blake, who was holding a knife as he was trying to return to his vehicle in broad daylight, was seen as a threat and treated as one.
