But the single blow was not enough to bring Rittenhouse down.
Huber eventually caught up to Rittenhouse and tried to stop him by hitting him with a skateboard. I tried to grab him," Gittings told CNN last year. "He pushed me out of the way and ran off. The 26-year-old, who grew up in Kenosha and was an avid skateboarder, was at the protest with his girlfriend, Hannah Gittings. Rittenhouse panicked and set off running away from the scene of the fatal shooting, toward a police line.īut along the way, several protesters who believed Rittenhouse was an active shooter began chasing after him. And I don't think that that is acceptable." Anthony Huber Swart told reporters after the verdict: "I feel like in this case, it feels like, the victims' lives don't matter. Rosenbaum had a young daughter from a previous relationship, according to the paper, and he said he was fighting for the right to see her. But she was open to reconciling, telling the Post that he had told her: "I want to fix things. When you're out in traffic, obstructing traffic, backing up traffic, you're creating a nuisance by endangering yourself and others.Swart had pressed charges against Rosenbaum in July 2020 after a fight in which he assaulted her, the paper reported. "The bylaw itself is related to nuisances.
"It's not about a 12-year-old kid going through a neighbourhood, it's about an adult male, endangering himself and the motorists around him. "It's a public safety issue," said Wayne Knorr.
"It's a complete contradiction of what they're telling the residents of Fredericton to do."īreen argues that if cyclists are allowed on the streets, skateboarders should be allowed to use them as well.īut a City of Fredericton spokesperson said it all boils down to the issue of safety. I even started my own gas-free lawn care company. "This isn't the first green activity I've been involved in. The city's Green Matters campaign includes a section encouraging people to find a "greener" way to commute.īreen, who uses only zero-emission transportation and runs a lawn care business using only push mowers, hand clippers and organic compost, said skateboards should fall under the category of "human-powered travel." "If I pay the fine, I would be admitting I was doing something wrong."Ībout 120 people – including two-dozen skateboarders – later accompanied Breen as he turned himself in at the courthouse. "I won't pay because I believe I'm following the Fredericton Green Matters campaign in finding alternative transportation with my skateboard," he said yesterday at a rally in support of him at city hall.
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