And he had clothes thrown at him. He thought they wanted his gun.

He didn’t know what was thrown at him. Well, the guy tried to take his gun from him. So, it appears Kyle was right about his assumption.

Its incredibly strange to refer to rittenhouse as a victim

He is the victim. Three violent felons attacked him, and he had to use self-defense to protect himself from death or severe injury.

The only people at fault here are three violent felons who wanted to harm Kyle.