Just exercising his constitutional rights, nothing to worry about...
NBC News
The man, Jesse Kline, who was first identified by a Twitter user known as Danesh and whose identity was later confirmed by the Chicago Tribune, told the crowd that he is a former officer in Ferguson, Missouri, which was rocked by weeks of protests after police killed Michael Brown in 2104.
In a brief interview, Kline said he had traveled to Kenosha from Arizona, where he lives, to “exercise my constitutional rights.”
The Ferguson Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kline confirmed that he was seen outside the Kenosha courthouse denouncing Black Lives Matter and calling the movement a “terrorist organization.” Photos also captured him holding what appeared to be a sex toy.
You read that right, “sex toy.” This dude’s really overcompensating...
He initially identified himself as “Maserati Mike...”
A man who screamed obscenities about Black Lives Matter and carried an AR-15 rifle outside the Kenosha County Courthouse while the Kyle Rittenhouse jury deliberated is a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, he confirmed Thursday.
Records show the man — who initially identified himself as “Maserati Mike” — is Jesse Kline, who had been a member of the Ferguson Police Department for three years. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kline was fired from the Ferguson Police Department in 2018 after being charged with stalking a woman and threatening her male companion by poking his chest with a handgun.
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Kline has protested outside the Kenosha County Courthouse for the past three days, bringing a gun to the demonstration Wednesday for a brief time. Wearing a tactical vest, button-down shirt, bow tie, slacks and dress shoes, Kline spent part of the morning yelling “Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization” and screaming “(expletive) BLM!” through a megaphone as he stood in the public way across the street from the courthouse.
Law enforcement informed him that firearm possession within 1,000 of a school without a permit is against the law… Then they let him leave.