On November 22, 2014, Tamir Rice, a 12-year old African-American boy, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white police officer. Rice was carrying a replica toy gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
On Tuesday, August 25th, Kyle Rittenhouse, 17 grabbed an AR-15 style rifle and joined several other armed people in the streets of Kenosha. He killed 2 people and wounded a third and police ignored him.
Get the picture?
Police not only didn’t arrest Rittenhouse at the scene, but at the start of the night they thanked an armed group who had come out – and at the end of the night, video shows Rittenhouse was able to walk right out of the Kenosha hot zone.
“We appreciate you guys, we really do,” a police officer is heard saying on video.