Jesse Kline, the based MAGA patriot briefly detained by cops Wednesday for carrying an AR-15 outside the Kenosha County, Wisconsin courthouse as the jury deliberated in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial, turns out to be a former Ferguson, Missouri police department officer with an arrest record for stalking and assault, per a report on Meaww.com and a 2018 STL Today article. Kline was fired in August 2018 for threatening his then-girlfriend and another male with a gun at a home in Maplewood, Missouri and subsequently charged with assault and stalking, charges that were dropped after both of the victims refused to testify against him.
Ferguson, Missouri’s police department has a sordid history of racial controversy, most notoriously for the 2014 shooting death of 20-year-old Black man Michael Brown by an officer during a confrontation after Brown had shoplifted a box of cigars, and the civil unrest that followed, one of the incidents that contributed to the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Kline was not the only St Louis-area white nationalist rifle enthusiast to show up in Wisconsin in solidarity with Kyle Rittenhouse this week, as wealthy ambulance chaser-turned-low-polling Republican Senate candidate Mark Closkey also made an appearance in Kenosha on Monday.