Kyle Rittenhouse has been sending text messages promising to “murder” shoplifters, a former spokesman says

Kyle Rittenhouse, a former spokesman for Kenosha, Wisconsin, accused him of hiding his true intentions in a new documentary about his failed prosecution.

In August 2020, Rittenhouse claimed he drove 20 miles from his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to help police restore order during unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. However, Rittenhouse's texts revealed even more sinister intentions and that spokesman Dave Hancock was reportedly blindsided.

“I believed things he told me that I now understand are…lies,” Dave Hancock said on 90 Minutes Kyle Rittenhouse trials Documentary, reports The Guardian.

Rittenhouse shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and was unsuccessfully charged with murder in court over their deaths.

According to Hancock, Rittenhouse “had a history of things he had done before [the double slaying]”He particularly patrolled the streets for months with weapons and borrowed people's security uniforms and did everything he could to try to get into some kind of fight.”

Text messages from Rittenhouse's phone show that he reacted angrily when he saw shoplifters at a CVS Pharmacy on August 10, a full two weeks before his trip to Kenosha.

“The world is disgusting,” Rittenhouse wrote. He added: “It makes me [f—ing] sick.”

Hancock commented: “Here’s his head – you know what I mean?”

In another text, Rittenhouse wrote, “I wish they would come to my house,” adding, “I'll fucking murder them.”

Hancock said his first impression of Rittenhouse was of a “scared, arrogant boy, oblivious to the world around him.”

“When he told me the story, I believed he was serious,” he said. “I believed things he told me that I now understand to be one of his many lies. And that hurts. That sucks.”

The Kyle Rittenhouse trials is an original documentary broadcast on the true crime network Law&Crime.