Hindsight is 20/20.

Kyle Rittenhouse should have remained with his ‘team’ instead of splitting off from the others. They should have been working in tandem.

I know.

Though a former police youth cadet and part-time YMCA lifeguard, Rittenhouse should have never claimed to be an EMT (emergency medical technician.) Negative perceptions are hard to overcome.

I know.

When an incident like this occurs, ‘team members’ must politely refuse to speak to the press about anything, whether they know what happened or not. As the Kenosha Guard learned, not all media are there to collect facts or disseminate the truth.

I know.

UPDATE: Brooks posted a quote in 2016 on a now-deactivated Facebook account: “Run them over. Keep traffic flowing & don’t slow down for any of these idiots…”

UPDATE: Brooks was convicted of statutory sexual seduction on November 1, 2006, for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old. Sentenced to probation, Sparks Police arrested him for failure to obey sex offender laws on June 23, 2016. He made bailed then absconded.

UPDATE: Brooks has been charged with crimes 16 times since 1999.

UPDATE: Waukesha Police Chief Daniel Thompson now says Brooks had been part of a domestic disturbance minutes before he drove into the Christmas parade.

UPDATE: Brooks has an active warrant in Nevada for violating the state’s sex crime law.

When I first saw his photo, I practically fell out of my office chair.

“My God,” I said aloud, “I know him.”

Darrell Edward Brooks Jr. may have killed five people by running them down during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Another 40 are injured, some critically.

He is a sex offender from Sparks, Nev., and I reported on him in 2006. He was 24 or maybe 25 years old when convicted of having sex with a teenage girl, getting her pregnant, as well as pimping her out.

So I did a quick search on the Nevada sex offender registry and found him. The photo, though a decade old, looks like the alleged suspect.

As for how the national media is covering this, they say it is an accident, that Brooks was running away from a life-threatening situation. They also say that the incident had nothing to do with the ‘Black Lives Movement (BLM)’ or the Rittenhouse verdict.

They cannot possibly know either of these suppositions and therefore ought not to be reporting this as fact.

Facts are that Brooks has open felony charges in Wisconsin after he allegedly tried to run a woman over at a gas station. Other lesser charges against him include resisting an officer, bail jumping, recklessly endangering safety with domestic abuse assessments, disorderly conduct, and battery.

Don’t forget to turn your bathroom scales back 15 pounds this Wednesday night before going to bed.

Oh, geez! People, do some research and don’t believe everything you see on social media.

The name Chrystul Kiser keeps coming up in connection with Kyle Rittenhouse. She allegedly murdered her pimp in 2018.

She has yet to be tried in connection with this crime and has been out of jail since June 2020. Finally, in June 2021, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals found that the trial judge had erred when denying her the ability to raise, as an affirmative defense, related to victims of human trafficking and child sex trafficking.

The court has yet to set a trial date.

Guess I’ll do the work of the national media by telling the truth.

Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot in self-defense, had multiple convictions in Pima County, Ariz., spending over 14 years in prison. He served the first ten years on his first rape charge, but for the two other rapes, he only received sentences of 30 months.

A grand jury charged Rosenbaum with 11 counts of child molestation and inappropriate sexual activity around children, including anal rape. The victims were five boys ranging in age from nine to 11 years old.

Meanwhile, Democratic Arizona State Rep. Daniel Hernandez, who represents District 2 Pima County residents, tweeted after the jury found Rittenhouse not guilty, “My heart goes out to the families of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber.”

Dems in Arizona must be so damned proud of their elected representative.

As for Huber, in 2018, he was found guilty of domestic abuse and disorderly conduct in Wisconsin. He also served a prison sentence in 2012 for choking his brother.

The truth, often ugly, is also freeing.

If you only watched or learned about the Rittenhouse trial via ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or NBC, you will not know:

The gas station, where they initially attacked Rittenhouse, is owned by his grandparents. They came on to his family’s property to attack him.

Rittenhouse put out a dumpster fire being rolled towards that same gas station, meant to burn it down and possibly cause an explosion.

On orders, the police had to stand down while businesses were looted and destroyed.

His father and Grandparents live in Kenosha, twenty minutes from where he resided with his mom part-time in Illinois.

Rittenhouse was knocked down twice and then nearly kicked the head.

Huber hit Rittenhouse in the head twice with a skateboard.

Grosskreutz aimed his gun at Rittenhouse first, which he admitted on the stand.

In Wisconsin, it is legal for Rittenhouse to have a gun, even at 17, and that he did not cross state lines illegally while in possession of the weapon.

Rosenbaum was a five-time convicted pedophile.

Huber was a two-time convicted domestic abuser.

Grosskreutz is a convicted Burglar with an assault on his record also.

All three men shot were not Black but White.

Prosecutors withheld video of the attack, and when forced to admit this and send a copy to the defense, the video was compromised and nearly unviewable.

Police caught an MSNBC reporter following the bus carrying jurors to their homes and photographing them, and the news agency was banned from covering the trial.

And finally, President Joe Biden defamed Rittenhouse before the trial began because he gets his news from the dishonest media, too.

I went to the saloon tonight and ordered a Kyle Rittenhouse, eight shots…

“You’re 37?” he said, standing by her office door. “You look much younger than that. I thought you were closer to 21 or something.”

“Thank you,” she said as she smiled up at him.

“What’s your secret?” he asked.

“I let a demon possess my soul in exchange for eternal youth,” she laughed.

He laughed, “Whatever,” before turning and leaving.

“You gotta stop telling people that before they start to believe you,” the Demon voiced.

She shrugged and said, “Meh. I’m heading to the breakroom for some coffee and a donut.”

“Oh, good,” the Demon said. “Try and get a chocolate raised.”

Now that I’ve lived through a plague, I can understand why women in Renaissance paintings are all chubby and braless.

By the age of four, my son insisted on dressing himself. Not only did he want his clothing to be color-coordinated, but he had to button every button on the front of his shirt, and he had to have his socks pulled up, even though he might be wearing pants.

The only difficulty he experienced was putting on shoes. He always had them on the wrong foot.

“Your shoes are on the wrong feet,” I said once.

He looked down at them, studying the situation, then looked at me and in dead earnest said, “But they’re the only feet I have.”

Touche’!