Not quite.
You finally get that!
There's another big difference between deliberately shooting and killing multiple people with a firearm you are too young to possess and maybe shooting at some cars.
Rittenhouse shot those people in self defense. Adam and Ruben were shooting at random cars. Big difference, yes, between self-defense and assault with a deadly weapon.
One of those big differences is that the cops didn't see Rittenhouse as a threat, even though he had just shot multiple people. Rittenhouse is not only alive, but is being praised all over Right Wing Talk whatever platform you care to name.
He was seen walking with his empty hands in full view, his rifle slung over his shoulder. He was not an immediate threat.
I do not like it, but being armed at these protests is fairly common, for blacks and whites, for left and right wingers alike.
Yeah, the cop felt his own life was in danger. Did he have another choice?
Take a gamble and maybe get killed. There have been cases of cops hesitating too long before shooting and getting killed or almost killed in the process.
See for example the case of Nika Holbert. The cop hesitated too long and it almost cost him his life.
Of course he did. He could have waited a full second.
Which could have been fatal.
No, he didn't. He tossed it behind the fence. Had he merely dropped it, he would probably have been alive. Instead he performed a throwing motion, which means he had to raise the gun, which looked like raising the gun to fire in the split second in which the officer had to decide whether to shoot.
He was unarmed when the cop shot him.
He was armed when the officer made the decision to shoot.
The cop didn't give himself enough time to process what was happening. Adam is dead.
There wasn't enough time.
On the other hand, Adam had plenty of opportunities to drop the gun before he reached the gap in the fence and turned around.