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That said, the shooting of Rosenbaum is more understandable if repugnant. Someone is chasing you, you hear a shot from behind you, you are jumped on and so you shoot in - self-defense. From there it all goes downhill as a scared child (who shouldn't have an ASSAULT rifle) does not know how to act.
I haven't followed it that closely and I don't know all the details, but this seems to be the sequence of events to me. It is appalling that a 17-year old (or any civilian of any age) could be on the streets with an assault rifle. His motivation for being there was also misguided at best, and his politics are clearly repugnant to us.
Equally, Rosenbaum (the first victim) and Ziminski (who fired the first shot) were not good faith BLM protesters. You can look up their backstories, but on the night in question, they were clearly using the protest as a pretext to cause criminal damage and seek confrontation.
It is interesting because it is a microcosm of a quite intractable set of societal problems.
While the video failed to mention comments on his apparent lack of knowledge on the photo of him with proud boys or making the OK sign. So maybe neither is complete. But the video seems more willing to avoid evidence that he was and isn't a white supremecist or in alignment with groups.
Thought looking again I think it says what the video shows?
In the video it doesn't seem like Huber hits him with a skateboard at all, more stumbles over onto him with it.
That said, the shooting of Rosenbaum is more understandable if repugnant. Someone is chasing you, you hear a shot from behind you, you are jumped on and so you shoot in - self-defense. From there it all goes downhill as a scared child (who shouldn't have an ASSAULT rifle) does not know how to act.