It's been nearly a year since aspiring police officer-cum-aspiring militia member Kyle Rittenhouse gunned down two people on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, at the height of the social justice protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by an white officer. In that time, Rittenhouse has been charged with murder — he was at one point represented by ineptly seditious weirdo Lin Wood — and simultaneously became the right-wing's perverted ideal of a cause celebre for having, as Fox News's Tucker Carlson explained, "decided [he] had to maintain order when no one else would" during the protests.
Now, according to the family of one of Rittenhouse's victims, the city of Kenosha itself is implicated in the alleged murders, with a new lawsuit filed this week claiming that the local police and sheriff not only accepted Rittenhouse and other armed militia members into their community, but also:
