Kyle Rittenhouse Attorney Releases Initial Statement

Kyle Rittenhouse

Statement from John M. Pierce and Pierce Bainbridge:

Pierce Bainbridge Engaged to Represent 17-Year Old Kyle Rittenhouse Wrongfully Charged with Murder After Acting in Self-Defense in Kenosha, WI

~ Community Lifeguard Was Protecting Life and Community Because His State and Local Government Failed – Was Viciously Attacked by Mob and Fearing for his Life Exercised His God-given and Constitutional Right to Self-Defense ~

VERNON HILLS, ILLINOIS / August 28, 2020 / Pierce Bainbridge is honored to represent 17-year old Antioch, Illinois resident Kyle Rittenhouse, who has suddenly found himself at the center of a national firestorm and charged with murder after defending himself from a relentless, vicious and potentially deadly mob attack in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

On August 25th, 2020, Kenosha spiraled into chaos following the Jacob Blake shooting. The Kenosha Mayor and Wisconsin Governor failed to provide a basic degree of law and order to protect the citizens and community buildings in Kenosha. The city burned as mobs destroyed buildings and property, and looters stole whatever they wanted. Rioters defaced storefronts, the courthouse, and many other publicand private locations across the city.

After Kyle finished his work that day as a community lifeguard in Kenosha, he wanted to help clean up some of the damage, so he and a friend went to the local public high school to remove graffiti by rioters. Later in the day, they received information about a call for help from a local business owner, whose downtown Kenosha auto dealership was largely destroyed by mob violence. The business owner needed help to protect what he had left of his life’s work, including two nearby mechanic’s shops. Kyle and a friend armed themselves with rifles due to the deadly violence gripping Kenosha and many other American cities, and headed to the business premises. The weapons were in Wisconsin and never crossed state lines.

Upon arrival, Kyle and others stood guard at the mechanic’s shop across from the auto dealership to prevent further damage or destruction. Later that night, substantially after the city’s 8:00 p.m. curfew expired without consequence, the police finally started to attempt to disperse a group of rioters. In doing so, they maneuvered a mass of individuals down the street towards the auto shops. Kyle and others on the premises were verbally threatened and taunted multiple times as the rioters passed by, but Kyle never reacted. His intent was not to incite violence, but simply to deter property damage and use his training to provide first aid to injured community members.

After the crowd passed the premises and Kyle believed the threat of further destruction had passed, he became increasingly concerned with the injured protesters and bystanders congregating at a nearby gas station with no immediate access to medical assistance or help from law enforcement. Kyle headed in that direction with a first aid kit. He sought out injured persons, rendered aid, and tried to guide people to others who could assist to the extent he could do so amid the chaos. By the final time Kyle returned to the gas station and confirmed there were no more injured individuals who needed assistance, police had advanced their formation and blocked what would have been his path back to the mechanic’s shop. Kyle then complied with the police instructions not to go back there. Kyle returned to the gas station until he learned of a need to help protect the second mechanic’s shop further down the street where property destruction was imminent with no police were nearby.

As Kyle proceeded towards the second mechanic’s shop, he was accosted by multiple rioters who recognized that he had been attempting to protect a business the mob wanted to destroy. This outraged the rioters and created a mob now determined to hurt Kyle. They began chasing him down. Kyle attempted to get away, but he could not do so quickly enough. Upon the sound of a gunshot behind him, Kyle turned and was immediately faced with an attacker lunging towards him and reaching for his rifle. He reacted instantaneously and justifiably with his weapon to protect himself, firing and striking the attacker.

Kyle stopped to ensure care for the wounded attacker but faced a growing mob gesturing towards him. He realized he needed to flee for his safety and his survival. Another attacker struck Kyle from behind as he fled down the street. Kyle turned as the mob pressed in on him and he fell to the ground. One attacker kicked Kyle on the ground while he was on the ground. Yet another bashed him over the head with a skateboard. Several rioters tried to disarm Kyle.  In fear for his life and concerned the crowd would either continue to shoot at him or even use his own weapon against him, Kyle had no choice but to fire multiple rounds towards his immediate attackers, striking two, including one armed attacker. The rest of the mob began to disperse upon hearing the additional gunshots.

Kyle got up and continued down the street in the direction of police with his hands in the air. He attempted to contact multiple police officers, but they were more concerned with the wounded attackers. The police did not take Kyle into custody at that time, but instead they indicated he should keep moving. He fully cooperated, both then and later that night when he turned himself in to the police in his hometown, Antioch, Illinois.

Kyle did nothing wrong. He exercised his God-given, Constitutional, common law and statutory law right to self-defense.

However, in a reactionary rush to appease the divisive, destructive forces currently roiling this country, prosecutors in Kenosha did not engage in any meaningful analysis of the facts, or any in-depth review of available video footage (some of which shows that a critical state’s witness was not even at the area where the shots were fired); this was not a serious investigation. Rather, after learning Kyle may have had conservative political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens. Within 24-36 hours, he was charged with multiple homicide counts.

Kyle now has the best legal representation in the country. With help from Nicholas Sandmann attorney L. Lin Wood, Pierce Bainbridge and multiple top-tier criminal defense lawyers in Wisconsin immediately offered representation to Kyle.

Today, his legal team was successful in working with the public defender to obtain a several-week continuance of his extradition hearing to September 25th. This at least partially slows down the rush to judgment by a government and media that is determined to assassinate his character and destroy his life.

Kyle, his family, the team at Pierce Bainbridge and his other lawyers intend to fight these charges every step of the way, take the case to trial and win an acquittal on the grounds of self-defense before a jury of his peers.

The legal fees and other costs of Kyle’s defense will be provided through donations to #FightBack Foundation Inc., a Texas 501(c)(4) foundation created by John Pierce and Lin Wood to protect law-abiding American citizens whose rights are being trampled on by state and local governments that are more concerned with appeasing mobs than protecting those rights.

Pierce Bainbridge founder John Pierce praised Kyle’s strength and resilience.

“A 17-year old child should not have to take up arms in America to protect life and property. That is the job of state and local governments. However, those governments have failed, and law-abiding citizens have no choice but to protect their own communities as their forefathers did at Lexington and Concord in 1775.

“Kyle is not a racist or a white supremacist. He is a brave, patriotic, compassionate law-abiding American who loves his country and his community.

“He did nothing wrong.

“He defended himself, which is a fundamental right of all Americans given by God and protected by law.

“He is now in the crosshairs of institutional forces that are much more powerful than him.

“But he will stand up to them and fight not only for himself, but for all Americans and their beloved Constitution. We will never leave his side until he is victorious in that fight.”

John M. Pierce, attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse
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Further updates will be provided as the investigation and legal proceedings unfold.

#FightBack Contact: John M. Pierce

McHenry County Blog note: This statement was released late Friday afternoon, August 28, after the initial court appearance in Lake County that morning.

Thank you Information Liberation for posting the full statement on website informationliberation.com


Comments

Kyle Rittenhouse Attorney Releases Initial Statement — 54 Comments

  1. I’m certain most of us are waiting to see the outcry after he’s relieved of the charges.

  2. Thank you Kyle, you are a true and brave American patriot.

    With the assistance
    of a competent attorney you will sue the various FAKE NEWS media outlets who defamed you
    with their LIES for million$, just as Nick Sandman did.

    Wouldn’t you agree, Little Eddie ?

  3. Acquittal coming.

    Followed by more “largely peaceful” RIOTS…

  4. They will do everything to make an example of him so that others do not retaliate.

    If he does get off the hook, it’s going to be a very long and difficult battle to get there.

  5. I continue to hear, even from some conservatives, those arguing that Kyle Rittenhouse had no business at the scene in Wisconsin.

    They say he was underage and should not have been in possession of a firearm…

    They say he didn’t even live in Wisconsin so he had no business involving himself in matters there.

    I maintain that all are the arguments of those seeking to rationalize cowardice.

    Kyle’s presence there was courageous.

    His purpose was noble.

    His actions were admirable.

    And, if you’ve seen all the video footage I have, you know every time he fired his weapon was entirely in justified self-defense, and that he did not fire first!

    While law enforcement and others charged with the duties of preventing and stopping these riots across our nation continue to stand down, it is incumbent upon us as liberty-loving, patriotic, men, to stand UP and take necessary measures to stop these America-hating criminals and to protect the life, liberty, and property of ourselves and others.

    Furthermore, this very clear and present need to protect and defend the life, liberty, and property of ourselves and others, doesn’t stop at state lines. Nor can restrictions legitimately be placed upon on the age of those who will stand to defend it.

    Again, anyone who would argue to the contrary is only attempting to rationalize cowardice.

  6. So often people fail to realize that more than one thing can be true at the same time.

    All of these statements are true.

    Kyle is 17 and shouldn’t have been there.

    State and local governments failed to perform their most basic job of protecting person and property.

    If government fails to protect people and their property, then citizens have every right to protect themselves.

    That in that moment Kyle was under attack by a mob and was defending his life.

    It really doesn’t matter whether or not he should have been there.

    That has nothing to do with the question of whether or not the killing was in self defense.

    True blame lie with Governor Evers for not maintaining law and order in his state.

    He declined help from the federal government when any reasonable person would realize that it was needed.

    He should have realized that a national story like this during the RNC was a powder keg waiting for a spark.

    All of this could have been avoided, but that might have made Trump look good.

  7. Whether he acted in self-defense is for a fact-finder to determine.

    Apparently, the authorities in Kenosha don’t think so.

  8. Do you really think that 12 jurors will convict him based on the video evidence?

    Not from what I’ve seen.

  9. The Blake story is just as bogus as the Floyd story. Something ain’t right with this story, either. Yes, I have seen ALL the footage. All of it. That’s how I know something ain’t right. I smell huge setup.

  10. Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandman are great American heros. 😊🤓🔔✔️

  11. Bainbridge will get Rittenhouse acquitted based on the Law and circumstances involved and likely probability of 90% or better.

    The only thing I can think of that would make it 100% would be if Kenneally or someone with his “legal” ability were Bainbridge’s opposite in this matter.

  12. I agree, Kyle has great legal representation and will walk because the facts are on his side.

    Hopefully he sues the hell out of the media for calling him a white supremacist.

  13. This poor kid isn’t going to survive in prison.

    Three lives were destroyed that night

  14. Three lives of people who all had violent criminal histories and were attempting to loot and burn buildings down.

    These same criminals when confronted by citizens attempting to defend their property decided to attack and chase a 17 year old.

    Then the outside agitators (see video) fire a shot in the air right as one of the criminals attempted to disarm Kyle.

    We all know how the rest played out.

    Zero sympathy for the three who were shot.

    They were not peaceful protesters.

    They are domestic terrorists who are attempting to get their way politically by use fear and violence.

    That is the very definition of terrorism.

    We need to start calling this what it is.

    When ongoing violence has political goals and objectives, it’s not called protesting or rioting, it’s called terrorism.

  15. The United States is a free nation with no prohibitions on any Citizen crossing State borders.

    Setting aside judgements people have made as to the wisdom of anyone willingly entering a war zone in a domestic city, Kyle has every right to do so freely and without obstruction.

    This brave young man has done more than 99% of Citizens are willing to do on your behalf.

    Now, go out and peacefully work for conservative candidates.

    Peacefully vote for conservative candidates.

    Or reap a generational horror being played out by radicals bent on destroying the greatest nation this earth has ever seen in its history.

    Then sit back and Monday morning quarterback the brave actions of others and tell us all how you’d do it better.

    Get with the peaceful fight or get caught in the violence which is already here and growing.

    It’s not The People who are the problem.

    It’s the politicians.

    Remove the Madigans and the Franks in our nation and peace will prevail under servant leaders again.

    They’ll be too afraid of the Citizen to do otherwise.

  16. Fast forward to the trial date. It will have national, global media coverage. Perhaps race baiters such as the reverend al will show up to ratchet up tension. Low information and useful idiots will be in the streets of Kenosha and near the court building to try and intimidate jurors and the judge. But, the media will say they have their “rights” to be in the streets.

    The useful idiots will have as reference the despicable act by top Democrat Senate leader and piece of garbage Schumer who earlier this year threatened US Supreme Court Justices while nearby the Supreme Court Building in DC.

  17. See how Democrats think!?

    DMAC is suffering over 3 low-lives that were there to riot, set fires, destroy and kill.

    VOTE TRUMP and Republican all the way down ballot!

  18. Mike Madigan isn’t going anywhere, until he’s jailed or dead. 😐

    As state representative, he’s fortified with:

    Remaps. Every decade, he almost has a brand new district. He should, he draws the maps. 😁,

    Shill candidates. Ask Jason Gonzales, 2016 Challenger.,

    Court rulings (2018),

    Chicago Ward Committeeperson (13),

    State Central Committeeperson, 3rd Congressional District and

    Chair, Illinois Democrats.

    ☹️✔️

  19. Put a needle in his arm with a lethal does of stuff and let’s move on.

    Strap his mom into the gurney next to him so they can leave this earth together.

  20. A jury of 12 Bantus will not only find Kyle guilty of all charges, they’ll also find him guilty of killing Malcolm X, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Sankara.

  21. “Put a needle in his arm with a lethal does of stuff and let’s move on.

    Strap his mom into the gurney next to him so they can leave this earth together”

    Bob must be one sick puppy. This is the mentality of the left however.

  22. Anyone ever used a toothpick?

    Yep!

    It’s real small………………………………………….

  23. He’s a [censored] who picked up an AR-15 to protect businesses that were not his.

    I don’t expect most in McHenry to understand. This county is the less diverse county in the state!

  24. I am sure others will reply, but reports are that Rittenhouse nor his mother took a gun across the Illinois-Wisconsin line.

  25. Eddie, you are so lucky the youtube link won’t be posted.

    IT”S DISGUSTING!

  26. However, Tim Tom Red Pill runs a youtube channel.

    The title is: Mr. Joe Does Asia fake Philippines charities for the kids.

    YUCK!

  27. Eddie, you capitalized “black man”, which isn’t a proper adjective.

    You been reading a lot mainstream media again?

    I hear that’s the new trend since the radical left likes to invent new rules every day. 😛

  28. DALA and Eddie, you two have been at it for days.

    You’d think that you two love one another as much as AlabamaShake loves me.

  29. David said: “He’s a [censored] who picked up an AR-15 to protect businesses that were not his.

    I don’t expect most in McHenry to understand. This county is the less diverse county in the state!”

    You are right!

    I don’t understand.

    Please help me to understand this “diversity” thing that has something to do with protecting someone else’s business.

    Should he have hired Mexicans to protect the business instead?

    Or is the problem that he did not protect a black-owned business?

    I hear that’s a very popular trend now to deliberately support black-owned businesses because… Black?

    What about painting the AR a color other than black!?

    I hear that cammo is more diverse.

    They even come in hot pink!

    I’m glad that we have people that are thinking about making diverse AR15s for those diverse business protectors!

    Fun fact!

    Rittenhouse’s previous police records for traffic violations have him listed as “Hispanic”.

    But you won’t hear that from anyone else.

    I’m glad we have a Hispanic man who is doing a fine job of promoting diversity!

  30. Believe me, Some Guy, there is no love.

    You are are confusing Love with Repulsion.

    Eddie, is just as repulsive as Alabama Shake!

    In fact, Alabama Shake is a paid political advisor working for the Democrats!

    It’s true.

  31. DALA, you are the repulsive one. 👿 I don’t support Democrats. 😮✔️

  32. Eddie, I didn’t accuse you of being a piss poor Democrat!

    You are repulsive!

  33. HEY CHECK OUT THE YOU TUBE CHANNEL BY TIM TOM RED PILL–>

    The title is: “Mr. Joe Does Asia fake Philippines charities for the kids”

    YUCK!

  34. SomeGuy, I always capitalized “Black Man”, way before 2020, partly because I am a Black Man. 😁❗✔️

  35. Your game is over Eddie!

    Run fast before they catchup to you!

    Maybe you should start thinking about the consequences of your actions.

    Scamming people for money is illegal!

  36. In today’s world, if Kyle Rittenhouse was a black punk with a long history of criminal behavior, we would have never heard of Kyle Rittenhouse.

  37. OMG

    THE FEDS ARE COMING!

    THE FEDS ARE COMING!

    You can’t run fast enough!

  38. Come on, DALA and Eddie.

    Be cool.

    It’s one thing to joke (and I take it pretty far at times) but maybe you two are getting a bit too hostile. 😛

  39. Some Guy, I’m hoping to read more about the lives of Hagar and Bathsheeba. 😊

  40. Facebook has declared Rittenhouse’s actions a “mass murder”, even though it doesn’t meet the actual definition and a legal ruling has not yet been determined.

    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/02/facebook-declares-kyle-rittenhouses-actions-a-mass-murder-wont-allow-posts-in-support/

    Seems to be an attempt to censor any support for him.

    It’s come out on a video that he was an EMT and was offering support for someone who was shot in the foot by someone else.

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