‘I Will… Murder Them’: Ex-Kyle Rittenhouse Spokesman Alleges Pre-Meditated Intent for Shooting and Racist Texts

A former spokesman of Kyle Rittenhouse, who became a national figure in 2020 after fatally shooting two men during a violent Wisconsin protest, says the MAGA darling was “patrolling the streets for months” prior looking for an excuse to get into a gunfight. Law & Crime reports Dave Hancock, who also served as Rittenhouse’s bodyguard, said his former employer misled the jury and the public at large when he testified he acted in self-defense. “When the world finds out everything that happened in this case and with Kyle, it’ll be shocking,” Hancock said. “It’s breathtaking.” Kyle Rittenhouse at a January 2024 signing of his book, “Acquitted.” (Photo: X/Kyle Rittenhouse) Hancock’s account seems to support the state’s claim that Rittenhouse was looking for a fight on that August 2020 evening when he arrived in Kenosha. The atmosphere there had grown increasingly volatile, with armed residents facing off against protesters demonstrating against the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man paralyzed after a run-in with a white officer. Rittenhouse, 17 at the time of the incident, testified he had gone there to offer his services as a medic. Instead, he ended up shooting and killing Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony...