“Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S.Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up, fell to the floor and then hugged one of his attorneys upon hearing the verdict.”
https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Rittenhouse-jury-says-not-guilty-16635429.phpVideo:
https://youtu.be/MFgmzB3MSXwAnd the radical leftwing propagandists are already hard at work:
“There’s certainly plenty to dissect as we attempt to answer the question of why a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges ... I, for one, was stunned when he ruled that prosecutors could not refer to the three men Rittenhouse shot, two fatally, as ‘victims’ but that the defense attorneys could refer to them as looters, rioters and arsonists. By allowing the defense attorneys to use the words they wanted and denying prosecutors the opportunity to use the words they wanted, the judge gave the defense the opportunity to create a perception that the folks who were shot deserved it or brought it on themselves ... Or maybe the acquittals had something to do with Schroeder on Veterans Day inviting everyone in the courtroom to join him in a round of applause recognizing the military service of a defense witness about to testify ... Only the jurors know why they had reasonable doubt about Rittenhouse’s guilt. Let’s hope the jury’s decision was based exclusively on the evidence introduced during the the trial.“
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/kyle-...icts-make-perfect-sense-america-n1284073“Kyle Rittenhouse trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill ... The shooter’s homicide acquittal coddles conservatives and may lead to even more violence ... The case had the makings of an acquittal before the trial even began. The outcome seemed clear even before an almost exclusively white jury pool was selected, even before Judge Bruce Schroeder created an uproar by ruling that the slain protesters could be referred to as ‘rioters’ and ‘looters’ but not ‘victims,’ even before Schroeder refused to punish Rittenhouse for what prosecutors said amounted to a violation of his bond conditions. Rittenhouse is a white teen who abides by white rules, and white people empathetic to those rules seemed poised to insulate him from repercussions. The day he pleaded not guilty to felony homicide, Rittenhouse flashed a white supremacist symbol and was “loudly serenaded” by a group of men at a bar who belted out the anthem of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, according to prosecutors ... white conservatives felt all the more comfortable swaddling Rittenhouse in the protection they often give to police and vigilantes serving white conservative interests — from George Zimmerman to Mark and Patricia McCloskey. Rittenhouse is just their latest darling, pitifully seeing heroism in an armed teen who set out to patrol pro-Black protests as though he were police ... Conservatives are encouraging white vigilantes like Rittenhouse to police progressive spaces by all means. As one Slate article put it last year, ‘Own the Libs Is Gradually Morphing Into Kill the Libs.' The jury’s decision was a dangerous endorsement of that vision.”
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-homicide-rcna5748This is the best moment reason, Liberty, and the United States has seen in a long time. The Kenosha Kid did what every American man should have been doing but failed to do. Kyle Rittenhouse stood up to domestic terrorists in a war zone right on American streets, and when that mob of radical leftwing extremists attacked him, he neutralized that threat, and the world is a better place for it. Had he been found guilty on any of those charges, not only would it have been a travesty and a miscarriage of justice, but it would have established the legal precedent that you and I have no right to self defense. We would have been perhaps forever consigned to the mercy of these left wing lunatics. But he prevailed in the courtroom just as he had on the streets of Kenosha. Kyle’s not just a hero, he’s our hero. Your hero, and mine.
