25, Rittenhouse left Car Source and walked down the street in an effort, he said, to see if anyone needed medical help. It is owned by the Khindri family, according to court testimony and property records.Īt one point on the evening of Aug. Regardless, the dealership is not owned by Rittenhouse’s grandparents. But they didn’t ask the volunteers to leave, either. Two brothers whose family owns Car Source testified that they didn’t ask Rittenhouse, or anyone else, to guard the business. The following day, he had gone to Kenosha and volunteered to “help watch over” the business, he said. Rittenhouse testified that he had seen videos on social media showing destruction of property at Car Source, a dealership in Kenosha, during protests on the evening of Aug. They came on to his property to attack him.”įacts: This is false.
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Here are the facts relevant to each claim in the post:Ĭlaim: “Until I watched the trial for myself, I didn’t know the gas station where it all started and where Kyle stayed up until they started attacking him, is owned by his grandparents. It makes numerous claims – several of which are true, or at least partly true, and some which are inaccurate. The post has been copied and shared thousands of times, according to data from CrowdTangle. Another widely shared claim, which we’ll address here, has been circulating on right-leaning accounts. We recently wrote about one such claim circulating on left-leaning social media accounts. The sharp divide in public perception of Rittenhouse has led to the proliferation of false claims that support the view of either the right or left. Rittenhouse and his largely conservative supporters argued that he acted in self-defense, while prosecutors and the primarily liberal crowd who wanted to see him punished argued that he was a vigilante who had been spoiling for a fight.
Kyle Rittenhouse looks at his attorneys during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Nov.