A surprising judgment is rendered near the end of the New York Times’s 25-minute video reconstruction of the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings. It’s a judgment about Anthony Huber, the 26-year-old who rushed Rittenhouse, hit him with a skateboard, tried to take away his gun, and got fatally shot in the process.
The judgment comes from a guy named Ryan Balch, who was in Kenosha that night. He says, “Anthony Huber, man, he went down like a hero… He thought there was a threat there, and he was reacting to it.”
I call this judgment surprising not because it strikes me as unreasonable...
What’s surprising is that the person who rendered that judgment wasn’t in Huber’s tribe. On the night of the shootings, Ryan Balch, a young military veteran, was out patrolling Kenosha’s streets, assault rifle in hand, literally shoulder to shoulder with Kyle Rittenhouse.
