The video is being compared to footage of the Kenosha police's interaction with Jacob Blake.
Police arrested the 17-year-old Rittenhouse in Antioch, Illinois, 15 miles from Kenosha, on Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide. of the shooting, which happened Tuesday night amid protests over police brutality sparked by the Sunday shooting of Blake, appears to show the gunman approaching a handful of police vehicles with his hands in the air, after firing shots at multiple people, as if to surrender.
The apparent shooter, who is white, even walks up to the window of a police car, but no officers exit and all but one of the vehicles drive by. from a livestream of Tuesday night appears to show police giving Rittenhouse water and thanking the armed group he is with: “We appreciate you guys, we really do,” a law enforcement officer says over a loudspeaker.
Many on social media were quick to compare the police’s reaction to Rittenhouse with the rapid escalation of their encounter with Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was shot multiple times in the back by Kenosha police while three of his children watched, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, according to his father. he was trying to break up a fight when police arrived in response to a 911 call related to a “domestic incident.
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