Asking the college student who was holding the “White privilege should not cancel out murder” sign why she thinks Rittenhouse is a murderer, she said:
“Personally, in my opinion it was not an act of self-defense. Driving across state lines with a semi-automatic weapon to be surrounded by people who have different beliefs than you, it’s not an act of self-dense…He should have never been there in the first place,” she said.
When I confronted her about how she got a critical fact wrong, he did not cross state lines with the rifle prior to the shooting, the protester remained steadfast: “There’s no need for any rifles or any weapons at a protest because we’re all practicing our freedoms.”
And she was far from the only person at WKU who thought that way.
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