It’s cop logic. Doesn’t matter whether his life was actually threatened — no evidence thus far that it was — what matters is he can *say* he *feared* for his life, and therefore the use of lethal force is justified. https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1298990683085135875

And in fact, the local authorities are already treating Rittenhouse as if he is a cop, and entitled to language that obliterates his agency and treats the death of two people as the result of forces beyond anyone’s control. (Except maybe their own.) https://twitter.com/gidtruth/status/1298697049551011840

Pretty explicit in all of this is the extent to which police and their cheerleaders see these right-wing militia types as essentially performing the same work as formal law enforcement, not crime fighting but the maintenance of (racial, gender, class) “order.”