En-Thrall-ed: Texas police department goes up against woke mob over Kyle Rittenhouse selfie

The photo showed Rittenhouse posing with an unidentified officer from the Department in front of a patrol vehicle

PUBLISHED AUG 14, 2022

The police officer who posed along with Rittenhouse still remains unidentified (Thrall Police Department/Facebook)

THRALL, TEXAS: Thrall Police Department of Texas is under fire after an officer posted a photograph of himself posing with Kyle Rittenhouse. It was shared on the official Facebook page of the Thrall Police Department.

The photo showed Rittenhouse posing with an unidentified officer from the Department in front of a patrol vehicle. While the post received a huge backlash and was ripped by the woke mob on the Internet, the Thrall Police Department has backed its officer's upload.

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"Make those stops, you never know who you might meet. Today it was Kyle Rittenhouse, welcome to Texas. I must have missed something, I believed that this young man was arrested, charged, indicted, and then found not guilty by a jury of his peers. Is this not how our country works anymore? The hate in these comments is terrible, if you have information that is contrary to that I would honestly love to hear it," said the Facebook Post.

Rittenhouse, 19, became notorious for his murder trial and subsequent acquittal after shooting three men, two fatally, in what he testified was self-defense during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020, following the shooting of Jacob Blake. The officer who is pictured in the post has not been identified yet, and it is still unclear how Rittenhouse met him in Thrall.

Rittenhouse was only 17 when he shot dead two men and injured another with his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle during the riots that followed anti-police protests in Kenosha. Though he was accused of homicide, the jury accepted the argument that he was defending himself from the attack of the three men.

Kyle Rittenhouse looks back as attorneys discuss items in the motion for mistrial presented by his defense during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 17, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three demonstrators, killing two of them, during a night of unrest that erupted in Kenosha after a police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while being arrested in August 2020. Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, was 17 at the time of the shooting and armed with an assault rifle. He faces counts of felony homicide and felony attempted homicide. — Kyle Rittenhouse during the trials of the case which claimed he shot two men and injured another (Sean Krajacic - Pool/Getty Images)

During the investigation, Rittenhouse stated he had traveled to Kenosha from Illinois to help protect private property from damage in riots. Meanwhile, the 19-year-old did support a 'Blue Lives Matter' campaign to support the police when he was 17 before shooting the victims. The movement, however, also received opposition from sections of law enforcement who claimed that it only leads to vengeful repercussions on cops, particularly after the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota in May 2020.

Rittenhouse has said that he is in Texas to attend Blinn College in Brenham, east of Austin for his further studies. However, Thrall Police Department has not yet apologized or released an official statement regarding the existing issue.