One of the central figures in the shootings of August 25, 2020, in Kenosha, WI, was the guy the prosecution called “Jump Kick Man.”
As Rittenhouse lies flat on his back on the street, “Jump Kick Man” races up and lands a jump kick on Rittenhouse’s head. You can see him in the left foreground below wearing white trousers. This from redstate.com.
Rittenhouse fired twice, both wide, at this assailant. And that attack ensured that Lefty Grosskreutz could catch up with Rittenhouse, menace him with a loaded weapon he illegally possessed, and get shot.
This man was known only as “Drop Kick Man,” and the prosecution left the impression he had not been identified throughout the trial.
Shooting at Drop Kick Man is Count #3, Reckless Endangerment, in Rittenhouse’s indictment.
The identity of “Drop Kick Man” is now known and was known before the trial ended—in reality, the prosecution almost certainly knew his identity before the trial started.
Drop Kick Man offered to testify for the prosecution, and they turned down his offer, and they never shared that information with the defense.
The details on DKM:
Maurice Freeland, 39, a career criminal and convicted felon with an open domestic violence charge.
He was on bond that night for an alleged assault on his girlfriend that included kicking her in the ribcage and having thrown her to the floor.
Freeland made his claim to being the ‘unidentified complainant,’ in the second of the five counts over which the jury is currently deliberating, to local news website Wisconsin Right Now.
WISN 1130 talk radio host Dan O’Donnell broke the story that prosecutors had identified the man Tuesday, but did not name him.
It is not known when the state learned Freeland’s identity, but it has been confirmed that he had wanted immunity before he would testify, and that Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger would not grant it.
Not only was he known to the prosecution, the number two prosecutor on the case, James “Doughnut Boy” Kraus, had prosecuted him at least twice, and his last conviction was before this current judge.
Maurice Freeland’s Criminal Record
- In 2013, he was convicted of THC possession as a repeater, a felony, and misdemeanor obstructing an officer, as a repeater. He received local jail time.
- In 2010, he had another forfeiture for disorderly conduct in a different court.
- In 2009, he was convicted of taking and driving a car without owner’s consent, a felony, and obstructing an officer as a repeater, a misdemeanor.
- He was subjected to a paternity case in 2009.
- In 2008, he was convicted of felony escape.
- In 2008, he was also convicted of two felony counts of misappropriating ID.
- In 2007 and in 2003, he was convicted of misdemeanor THC possession.
- He was convicted of escape, a felony, in 2000.
- Read his Kenosha County jail history HERE:
The prosecution was consistent with their unethical and immoral behavior.
The lackwit “first chair” on the case, Binger, engaged in a grave constitutional violation, the judge’s words, not mine, when he tried to get the jury to infer guilt from Rittenhouse’s pre-trial silence. He lied relentlessly. He barely knew his ass from a hot rock. He hid evidence from the defense (Rittenhouse Trial Delves Into if Clearer Video Was Withheld From Defense). In a way, we need to be thankful for the jiggling lump of gelatinous failure that was Doughnut Boy, his number two for the comic relief.
Suppressing the real name of “Drop Kick Man” simply maintains the prosecution’s consistency in the persecution of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Knowing DKM’s identity may not have been a game-changer in the trial, but the fact that every shot fired by Rittenhouse that night would have been made openly evident as having been aimed at a convicted felon who was attacking him. One has to think that would have made a difference.
All of Rittenhouse’s assailants were felons. There was the psycho child rapist, the domestic abuser, the perennial DUI, an illegal firearm possessor, and a felon out on bond.
The judge talked a big game, but when it came time to actually make decisions that needed to be made, he became just another clown in the circus, letting the prosecution do whatever the hell it wanted to do despite his play-to-the-camera scoldings.
Now, back to the issue of this ongoing lengthy jury deliberation over what seems so obvious to We the People here on Def-Con News.
What can possibly be taking so long? Some may think ‘Hung Jury.’ However, others aren’t giving up hope for a pleasant surprise at the end of it all.
Here’s hoping each member of the jury puts duty before intimidation.
God speed to the powers of right and true.
