Jonathan Gilliam, a retired Navy SEAL, former FBI agent, and author of "Sheep No More: The Art of Awareness and Attack Survival," recently commended Kyle Rittenhouse's "great weapon-handling skills" in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020.
"When he had his weapon and he was confronted by these imminent threats of loss of life or serious bodily injury, he engaged in a proper manner to eliminate the threat," Gilliam said. "You didn't see him out there hammering people down, mowing people down. It's when the threat got too close and it posed an imminent threat … he took action."
"If you look at who these people were that he actually shot, and what their actions were, and how he was trying to get away, and they came after him, everything he did was textbook perfect."
"Even when he was on the ground, he was not engaging people unless they engaged him. It was perfect."
"[He] held his weapon properly … kept his weapon in his hands when he was getting beat [and] when he was running. He wasn't sweeping people. He didn't drop his gun, He held onto it and maintained positive control the whole time with his finger off the trigger."
"He was going to help out a neighborhood that he knew was going to be targeted by violent thugs that burned places down and destroyed businesses and lives."
"He went there to support those people. If 10,000 people had gone there and done that, none of that stuff would have happened."
"I commend him even more because he had the guts to go there at 17 years old, and go there and try to help people, take care and save their community. He didn't do anything wrong."
