‘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”.

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Wait, you mean the guy everyone was saying went to Kenosha to murder people, actually went to Kenosha to murder people?!?!?! Color me shocked.

Only idiots and the mentally deficient bought his official story.

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My only weakness was not being cynical enough.

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I always knew he was a piece of shit because of how white he is and how much support fox gave him. – cynical man

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What do you mean by “how white he is”? Why do we keep injecting race into everything.

Imagine someone commented about “how black he is”

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you take it out of context. white as in “pumpkin spice latte”.

that psychopath was the definition of “angry racist white dude with a gun”.

on top of it all, the crime was racially motivated because he showed up to a BLM protest with an assault gun.

if he had been there to support the protest, he would have come unarmed. but he didn’t, did he? he went there to murder innocent civilians.

In another text, Rittenhouse sent: “I wish they would come into my house,” adding, “I will fucking murder them.”

in summary, he is a white racist irredeemable piece of shit that deserves life in prison where he can be a nice prison wife, because even the Nazis in prison would make him their weak ass bitch.

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Why would someone comment about how black he is? He’s white

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Stfu he murdered bc he’s a racist and you’re whining about feeling triggered by true words on the internet?

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He said on camera that he wanted to kill shoplifters when he saw some shoplifters leave with a new cheap items. This was not admitted as evidence during his trial.

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Someone should end Kyle before he kills again.

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Remember the video of him getting into a fight with some teenage girl just a few days before he killed those people? The video they wouldn’t let the jury see because it might show that Rittenhouse was an escalation-seeking rage-aholic? The video that his spokesperson has definitely seen?

Yeah, he was never disillusioned. He knew who this bastard was all along. He just stopped making money off the kid, is all.

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He is saying it now because that “turns” the documentary from “supporters” into a documentary from “critics”. That helps sales. And now the news coverage is pulling attention to it again and of course, that is good for the sales/views.

So I disagree about the stopping to make money with him part, he is milking the other side now.

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