I hope all of us will continue our soul searching. And as physicians, are not all of our imperfect brothers and sisters worthy of our compassion and our healing? We are all brothers and sisters of this planet. I wonder how safe the good citizens of Waukesha, Black and white, feel now?Īnd what truly saddens me more than anything about this case is that I have heard colleagues in the medical profession asking themselves whether they can continue to be objective and compassionate toward anyone supporting the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict.Īnd I think this opens up the broader and more important question for all of us physicians: Can we be objective, can we be compassionate toward those who think differently than us, toward those who hold different political beliefs than us, toward those who vote for a candidate we might despise? Brooks had expressed racial hatred toward whites and Jews on social media.
Initial reports from investigators revealed that Mr. He had been out on the streets on a ridiculously low $1,000 bail. One of these charges involved trying to murder the mother of his child also by running her over in his SUV. Brooks had five open arrest charges against him. The perpetrator, Darrell Brooks, a Black man, with a twenty-year criminal record, mowed down the victims in his red SUV. Six people, including an eight-year-old child, were murdered in that town, and over 60 more were injured while attending a Christmas parade. In regard to feeling safe, let’s fast forward to another Wisconsin town, Waukesha, 60 miles from Kenosha, two days after the Rittenhouse acquittal. In spite of the fact that none of the victims in the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting were Black, some Black people have expressed concern that because of the acquittal, they no longer feel safe. But the fact is this: Rittenhouse broke no law. But this 17 year old believed that he was trying to defend the city that he grew up in, a city being racked by burning, looting, and assaults on innocent people, and a city in which police were told to “stand down” and seemed unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of its citizens, Black and white. I personally think he got in way over his head. Was it a wise decision for the 17 years old Rittenhouse to be there in the first place? Probably not. Nor did Rittenhouse cross state lines with a gun A friend gave him a gun in Kenosha, and there was no law broken. Rittenhouse’s father and grandmother, and many friends lived in Kenosha, where he had spent much of his early life. While the media reported Rittenhouse as a total outsider, crossing state lines to shoot and kill, Rittenhouse was living with his mother in Illinois, only 20 miles from Kenosha. He never apparently was apprehended, nor did he appear at the trial.ĥ. Actually, the only Black person in any way associated with the Rittenhouse incident was someone called, “Jumpman.” The video of the attack shows him stomping on Rittenhouse’s head, then running away. And perhaps the most revealing, incontrovertible truth of the entire trial, Grosskreutz confessed that he pointed his Glock pistol at Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse shot at him.Ĥ. He had a previous criminal record of being armed while intoxicated. Later when questioned, Grosskreutz lied by omission to the police on two occasions, failing to admit he had a firearm in his possession. The third victim Gaige Grosskreutz, injured by a gunshot to his arm, illegally concealed a Glock pistol at the time of the attack on Rittenhouse. (Even though the prosecution team argued Rittenhouse should have been a “man” and taken a “manly” beating by these violent felons.)ģ. The jury found that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense to save his own life. Huber and Rosenbaum were shot and killed by Rittenhouse. He had previously been charged with holding a butcher knife to his brother’s throat, threatening to “gut him like a pig.” Huber had hit Rittenhouse over the head with a skateboard, a blow that could have damaged his brain. The second victim Anthony Huber was a two-time convicted woman beater. That same day he had been released from a mental hospital.Ģ. In Arizona, he had been charged on 11 counts of sexually assaulting and abusing preteen boys. Rosenbaum was a convicted child rapist and pedophile. The first victim, Joseph Rosenbaum, knocked Rittenhouse down twice and then attempted to kick him with lethal force to the head. As for the three white victims in the shooting, here are the facts: Not even the prosecuting attorney could deny these:ġ.
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