Richie McGinniss, who witnessed Kyle Rittenhouse kill his attackers in self-defense, condemned the media's portrayal of the shooting, his attackers and the riot.
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Published on Thursday, the two-year anniversary of the Kenosha, Wisconsin riots, McGinniss' piece detailed what he saw as a Daily Caller reporter covering the riot, specifically the moments in which Kyle Rittenhouse killed two men and injured one in self-defense. The point of McGinniss’ piece was to chip away at what he called the"caricatures and tall tales the media made up about the shooting and its central characters so that the media"algorithm" could generate maximum media buzz. Is Not a Hero," the piece opened by giving McGinnis’ firsthand account the carnage that ensued once the"17-year-old kid with a semi-automatic rifle" was threatened by rioters.
McGinniss then slammed the media for using and manipulating this tragic scene for its own gain."All four of them—Rittenhouse and the three men he'd shot—were about to be manufactured by the media machine into caricatures of the people they really were," he wrote. WISCONSIN RIVER TUBING STABBING SUSPECT CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE, SAYS HE WAS FALSELY ACCUSED AS A ‘CHILD MOLESTER’
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