Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Officials Asked If There Are Terrorism Links After After Car Plows Through Wisconsin Holiday Parade" video.

@svenvaltik5657 I'm sure he was quite scared, too, don't forget that. You can get away with literal murder in this country if you can prove that you were sc-sc-scared
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Only if you also didn't criticize Rittenhouse. Murder is murder
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You're blaming Forbes for what the cops said? Blame the police, my friend. The ones who did nothing to save anyone yesterday, and who may have even been looking for him (and failing to find him) before this happened
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To hell with anyone who defended a murderer this weekend only to cry "terrorism" in response to this
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lol it's been not even a day, what do you expect them or anyone else to do?
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Why the hell is Forbes letting unconfirmed speculation like this fly around these comments when they're deleting any comment that connects the obvious dots: If he was fleeing a domestic incident, then the incompetent cops failed to do anything before he went on to kill people. Why the hell are people lionizing the police in this situation for doing almost literally nothing? Anyone could have found the car and the suspect afterwards, we don't need a massively over-bloated, systemically racist organization descended from the slave catching industry to achieve that. But of course, Law and Order, boot-worshiping types think that somehow throwing a billion dollars at the cops will stop all crime. They also don't care/deny/support the fact that policing is systemically racist, so there's simply no reasoning with them
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@carlfisher6472 This isn't about "respect" and decorum goddammit, it's about human life, and the ones that were taken. Don't obfuscate the truth with this sort of pointless cop apologia. The cops did shit to save lives yesterday, that's a matter of fact―and in fact, they may have even been a major and direct contributing factor to this tragedy. This whole incident does nothing to disprove what the "Abolish the Police" crowd has been saying. We need a force that actually helps, isn't a huge waste of money, and most importantly, one that answers to the people rather than the other way around
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@fistpump64 On the contrary, if it had formal leadership, bad actors would just execute them, just like before. Not to mention folks who know that Black Lives Matter don't need some mouthpiece giving public eulogies in times like this. Figureheads like that are for the enemy to decry and assassinate, not something the movement needs
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The police did nothing to save anyone. The police don't protect you. They exist to maintain a white supremacist status quo and to protect the property of the rich, not to defend life. It is time we replaced the cops with a force that answers to the people, rather than the other way around. It is time we dismantled the occupying army that squats on our street corners. It is time we abolished the police
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@graceporter9853 Your engagement with these issues of human life and death would seem to be extremely limited if you think social media is their epicenter. Besides, people are definitely all over social media about this. Also, nobody particularly cares what any BLM "organization" has to say, not people who say "Black Lives Matter", and certainly not people who despise those people. It isn't some sort of corporation with regional branches and leadership that speaks for everyone
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@wesleytrout4931 What a wild misinterpretation of what I said. Forbes here and the cops there are the ones covering up, not me. My point is, if it's true that he was in fact fleeing a domestic abuse scene, then the cops knew about it but failed to stop him before he killed these people. The cops failed
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@wesleytrout4931 You are reaching so hard it's pathetic lol great contribution to the discussion, lets definitely not take a look at all angles here, cops are always super great
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@wesleytrout4931 I thought this was unironic support until I noticed it probably isn't, coming from you. Ah well, thanks anyway, comrade, and be well out there, shit's wild
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@wesleytrout4931 I guess we all have our primary marks or boogeymen of choice these days. What a time to be an American. Here's hoping we're on the verge of goodness as much as greatness
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@annettecantu3826 I'm assuming their point is that Kyle also belongs in prison by the same logic
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@wesleytrout4931 They are a concern. So are white supremacist murderers that the state lets off scot-free, but I imagine you aren't quite so interested in them. And I have no party, fuck every party, perhaps especially whatever one you like, comrade
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@wesleytrout4931 Uh huh, yeah, go out looking for a fight with a long gun in a town you've never been to during a riot and kill multiple people, claim you were scared (like the murdered weren't?) and boom: Free excuse to murder dissidents. The Cop Special™. Rittenhouse is a murderer and whatever happens to our friend here, Kyle too deserves. Injustice in this country is what leads to murders like these. Keep being a part of the problem, why don't you―like I tell all my fellow white Americans, "Get with it, or get the fuck out of the way". See you on the other side
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@carlfisher6472 Uh, wow. I'm sorry, but this is kind of an embarrassing comment. "neat, metro-sexual look"? How out of touch are you? Is this supposed to be insulting or offensive or something?
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lol these cops didn't save anyone, and they may have even been pursuing this guy when it happened. The cops haven't done anything to protect anyone. Don't let irrational responses to tragedies lionize incompetent windbags who leech way too much money from our municipal budgets. It's time we utterly replaced these bastards. Abolish the police
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@dbsti3006 Because he's a murderer and a white supremacist. But I guess if you're cool with the latter, you're probably cool with justifying the former. White supremacists deserve no quarter
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@baconatoromg6062 What does that even mean? Who talks like that?
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@baconatoromg6062 If we're bringing in the characters of all involved, Kyle was a white supremacist kid who showed up with a long gun prepared to kill his fellow human beings in defense of someone else's property, and he did so. We all saw the pictures he took with the Proud Boys flashing white supremacist signs. (Here's the part where a True Believer might deny that any of that means Kyle's a white supremacist, so feel free to go there if you want, but the deniability ain't so plausible here.) What is interesting to consider is what would have happened had that the second person Kyle killed shot him first instead. They could have used almost the exact same legal defense Kyle did: self defense, feared for their life, weapon brandished, shots having already been fired―it would have been a very similar case, possibly even more airtight. But I imagine you wouldn't be beating the same drum if that had been how it turned out, would you? Because all this isn't really just an issue of self defense, is it? It's about the belief that this kid was justified in killing the people he killed because of why he showed up, and because of why they showed up―a belief I very much doubt most who sing Kyle's praises would hold had the tables been turned, regardless of the defense in court being the same
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@baconatoromg6062 That symbol has been used by white supremacist organizations for years, it's not any kind of secret, it's right there in their own pictures. I'm not sure how bringing up another, more overt white supremacist symbol changes that. And yeah, the kid who shot an unarmed person dead, called a friend to report it, didn't call for help at all, and continued to patrol a car dealership, only to murder another person trying to disarm him, totally is the good guy in this story. Again, it would be interesting to see the shoe on the other foot, because despite all this bluster about "self defense" against unarmed people, we both know we wouldn't be having this same conversation, and you wouldn't be taking the acquitted's side
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I'm sure that will be an angle they work in the trial
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