‘I believed things he told me that I now understand to be … lies,’ Dave Hancock says in new Rittenhouse documentary

A former spokesperson for Kyle Rittenhouse says he became disillusioned with his ex-client after learning that he had sent text messages pledging to “fucking murder” shoplifters outside a Chicago pharmacy before later shooting two people to death during racial justice protests in Wisconsin in 2020.

Dave Hancock made that remark about Rittenhouse – for whom he also worked as a security guard – on a Law & Crime documentary that premiered on Friday. The show explored the unsuccessful criminal prosecution of Rittenhouse, who killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

As Hancock told it on The Trials of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 90-minute film’s main subject had “a history of things he was doing prior to [the double slaying], specifically patrolling the street for months with guns and borrowing people’s security uniforms, doing whatever he could to try to get into some kind of a fight”.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    4 days ago

    I agree with you 100%. So many of my fellow Americans (of every political stripe) see the world in that black and white way. There’s no nuance to be had here most of the time and it’s depressing.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 days ago

      There is nuance to be had, it’s just been overwritten by the mainstream media trying to pretend that they’re centrist.