following The acquittal of the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting, Far-right groups and individuals have begun to react-some are celebrating, others are calling for arms.
For example, it was reported that on Friday, Gab, a popular social network for free speech on the far right, sent an email encouraging followers to “buy guns and form a Christian militia.” Researcher Alex Kaplan ( Alex Kaplan) reported. Left-leaning supervision and organization of media affairs.
Gab, a social media platform known as a safe haven for white nationalists, sent users an email newsletter urging them to “purchase guns and form a Christian militia in accordance with the provisions of the Bible and our Constitution.” pic.twitter.com/OPWGxqMkhd
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) November 19, 2021
Channel of extreme right groups Proud boyOn the chat application Telegram, a commenter wrote, “This country still has opportunities,” NPR reported. On another channel, a member wrote, “The left will not stop until their bodies pile up like a rope.”
VDare-a racist, anti-immigration website associated with several prominent white supremacists and alternative right leaders-called Rittenhouse “the hero we have been waiting for throughout the turbulent summer of 2020, There, the life of the blacks is also the fate/anti-law/Bolshevik revolution has brought the entire chaos out of the country,” said Michael Hayden, a researcher at the Anti-Hate Monitoring Organization of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The white nationalist hate group found “the hero we have been waiting for” at Kyle Rittenhouse.
I’m pretty sure I can find the subtext there, thank you! pic.twitter.com/LgaP37tFLB
-Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) November 19, 2021
According to Buzzfeed News, photos of Rittenhouse surrounded by Nazi symbols also appeared on Gab, Telegram and Discord channels. The channels where these images were found are popular with QAnon conspiracy theorists, militant groups, and other white supremacists.
On Friday, some extreme right-wing extremist groups on Telegram called on armed citizens to take to the streets to show force.
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In a tweet on Friday evening, Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar (Paul Gosar) published a poll titled “Whether #KyleRittenhouse should be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to selflessly protect people’s lives and property Protection from armed arsonists and criminals?” The two possible answers to the polls are “yes” and “yes again.”
should #Kyle leightonhouse Received the Congressional Medal of Honor to selflessly protect people’s lives and property from arsonists and criminals and armed mobs?
-Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) November 19, 2021
Alex Newhouse, deputy director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counter-Terrorism, told Insider, “Rittenhouse’s acquittal has been used as a reason for future violence. Many people think this is on the left. The use of violent blank checks in protests is seen by others as a spark in the coming civil war or ethnic war.”
On Friday, a jury found Rittenhouse guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and other charges in the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber. Rittenhouse shot and killed the two men in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25, 2020, when the police shot and killed them. Jacob Black.
Rittenhouse was also found not guilty of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the Gaige Grosskreutz shooting. Rittenhouse said he shot in self-defense.
