Recently, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges, and here too the United States appears polarized with many on both sides almost completely along Party lines applauding and upset at the recent Jury ruling. Perhaps, the best place to start is here
“Although Kyle Rittenhouse stood trial for shooting three white men, millions of Americans saw a bigger issue at play. Rittenhouse had traveled to Kenosha, Wis., and taken up arms because he, a white teen, was riled up by protesters demanding justice after the police shooting of yet another Black man, Jacob Blake. In this sense, the acquittal was another in a long line of legal wins for an undying force in this country: White animus against Black grievance.”
I get the impression that the author doesn’t believe had Kyle Rittenhouse been black; the Jury would have acquitted him.
“The most disturbing responses to Rittenhouse’s acquittal, after all, came not from dedicated white instigators like the Proud Boys, but from elected officials like Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who were positively effusive. Gaetz, the Republican congressman from Florida, suggested he might reward Rittenhouse’s fortitude with a congressional internship.”
“Plenty of people have pointed out the parallels between the Rittenhouse trial and the ongoing trial of the men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia — white vigilantes with guns who take it upon themselves to defend white space or racial ideology.”
From what little I know of the Ahmaud Arbery trial, I believe that they’ll be found guilty of the charges, but I have only just begun researching that trial.
“But I see clearer and more painful parallels to the trial of the four police officers charged with assaulting Black motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles 30 years ago, a trial that also ended with acquittals on the most serious charges.”
So, the author omits that Kyle’s father and some family lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin and lives around something to the effect of 50 miles away in Illinois in which the firearm is kept in Kenosha, and the author is viewing this from the lens Kyle responded to the protests rather than the riots in Kenosha. The two can be separated from one another. Democrats don’t like to do that as it grants them cover from burning out minority neighborhoods and minority owned businesses because of this I very nearly made this the next installment of Extreme Elements.
“In the historic protest and anger that followed the not-guilty verdicts, this view was validated even more as TV audiences saw Black anger unleashed in the streets over many days, and so many Americans saw that anger itself—not the inhumane views of Black people that had led to the near-fatal beating of King — as the main problem to be quelled. King himself, like the men Rittenhouse shot, was never really an object of public sympathy or fascination.”
If you follow broad outlets, you’d know one is a repeated wife beater and another was a child rapist; you’d have to cloak them in being part of the protest for Jacob Blake to even make them sympathetic, and the Jury likely wouldn’t have changed their minds had they known. Seriously, the author seriously has to know this information, yet chooses not to analyze it probably because it throws a monkey wrench into the author’s article’s point of animus against grievance.
The Memo: Rittenhouse verdict reverberates across polarized nation
“For liberals and many people of color, Rittenhouse’s acquittal was an outrage — and a dangerous license for others to engage in violent vigilantism in the future.”
Simply being armed doesn’t mean that person is looking for trouble; it’s a deterrent not a justification to menace. I wouldn’t mess with someone armed; I’d rather not risk a confrontation at all with someone armed. I’m crazy not stupid.
“To conservatives, the jury’s decision was an act of courage — an example of citizens applying the law dispassionately even amid media uproar and broader social tumult.
For those Americans who are not committed members of either ideological camp, the verdict was something more complicated — a legally defensible decision, yet a queasiness-inducing reminder of how differently the actions of white and Black Americans continue to be judged.”
I doubt the Jury would have ruled any differently had Kyle Rittenhouse been black.
“The prosecution’s central counter-argument — that Rittenhouse’s claim to self-defense was invalid because he had provoked the confrontations in the first place by strutting around with a rifle — failed to carry the day.”
““The verdict speaks to the dramatic differences in perspective people have, based on racial background, about justice in our country,” civil rights attorney Shavar Jeffries told this column. “For many people of color, the idea that they could show up with an assault rifle at the site of a rally, kill people, and find themselves exonerated is something beyond comprehension.”” (qtd)
Maybe that’s true in the south but not in a northern State.
“On Monday, closing arguments are expected in the trial of three white men in Georgia who stand accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed Black man.”
Pretty sure that Jury finds those three white men guilty of murder
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