The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha

[Jolly]

The bars in Kenosha are already running specials...3 shots of whiskey for $6.

[George K]

"ACLU @ACLU
Despite Kyle Rittenhouse's conscious decision to travel across state lines and injure one person and take the lives of two people protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake by police, he was not held responsible for his actions.

Unfortunately, this is not surprising."

"Ben Rhodes @brhodes
A very dark message sent to all the other heavily armed would-be vigilantes out there."

"Mayor Bill de Blasio @NYCMayor
Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims. They should be alive today.

The only reason they’re not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people.

To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement."

Lawyer up, guys.

[George K]

[Horace]

Headline at MSNBC.com: (Front and center, biggest font on the page:)

Kyle Rittenhouse trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill

That's the news. The opinion is the fact that he was acquitted.

[Aqua Letifer]

Greenwald weighs in.

https://rumble.com/vphnor-the-rittenhouse-veredict.html

[Aqua Letifer]

@horace said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

Headline at MSNBC.com: (Front and center, biggest font on the page:)

Kyle Rittenhouse trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill

That's the news. The opinion is the fact that he was acquitted.

Holy balls where in the fuck are we living anymore.

[Horace]

@aqua-letifer said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

@horace said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

Headline at MSNBC.com: (Front and center, biggest font on the page:)

Kyle Rittenhouse trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill

That's the news. The opinion is the fact that he was acquitted.

Holy balls where in the fuck are we living anymore.

Leftist pop culture.

[Copper]

Celebs are not happy

"Shameless" actor Emmy Rossum tweeted, "This is a devastating blow.

One-time "Jeopardy!" host LeVar Burton said, "Tell me again there are not two kinds [of] justice in America."

"The Rittenhouse verdict gives them permission to kill. I've lost the definition of right and wrong," said Broadway star Patti LuPone.

"So anyone can come to a protest, just march down the middle of the street with a massive gun - and kill people?" tweeted Mia Farrow.

"It has now been put it out there that vigilantes can just go and kill people protesting issues like racial equality whenever they want and get away with it. Think about that for a second," said actor Josh Gad.

Ava DuVernay shared a statement made by Anthony Huber's parents: "John Huber and Karen Bloom, parents of murderer #KyleRittenhouse’s victim Anthony Huber: the verdict 'sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.'

Model Brooklyn Decker called the verdict a "disaster." She tweeted, "The precedent is terrifying. The injustice is hard to stomach."

"Star Trek" star George Takai wrote, "Justice denied is a body blow to our national psyche. On trial was not only a killer, but a system that continues to kill. Today that system defeated true justice, once again. But mark these words: We will never stop fighting for what is right and just."

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/celebs-react-kyle-rittenhouses-not-guilty-verdict

[George K]

@aqua-letifer said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

https://rumble.com/vphnor-the-rittenhouse-veredict.html

Have the families of the dead child molestor and grandmother-beater commented yet?

[George K]

Oh, Greenwald got one thing wrong. I think the gun charge was dismissed because the statute is so vague. The judge said something to the effect of, "If I can't understand the law, how can we expect the citizen to get it?"

[Jolly]

Did any of these concerned assholes stop to think if there wasn't a riot, none of this would have happened...

[George K]

@jolly said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

Did any of these concerned assholes stop to think if there wasn't a riot, none of this would have happened...

Of course not.

But that argument is similar to Mrs. George's statement, "He shouldn't have been there."

She's right, he shouldn't have.

But, that's not a crime.

Rioting is.

GrossKreutz traveled about 80 miles to be there.

[LuFins Dad]

This is the conversation that I just had with one of our piano technicians -

"I can't believe they let that (bleeeeeeep) get away with it! Come on! WTF was he even doing there? He had no reason to be in Kenosha except to cause trouble! He didn't live there, he has no connection, he carried an illegal gun across state lines, and he"

Me - "No he didn't."

Him - "What?!"

Me - "He have every reason to be there. His dad lives there, he spends half of his time in the city, he had a job in Kenosha which is why he was there those particular days. He never transported the gun as it was from a friend and stayed at his friend's house and it was a legal gun"

Him - "Where did you hear all of that bullshit?"

Me - "I read the nightly transcripts. Not the news, the actual trial."

Him - "That's bullshit" and he storms off.

[George K]

@lufins-dad said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

This is the conversation that I just had with one of our piano technicians -

"I can't believe they let that (bleeeeeeep) get away with it! Come on! WTF was he even doing there? He had no reason to be in Kenosha except to cause trouble! He didn't live there, he has no connection, he carried an illegal gun across state lines, and he"

Me - "No he didn't."

Him - "What?!"

Me - "He have every reason to be there. His dad lives there, he spends half of his time in the city, he had a job in Kenosha which is why he was there those particular days. He never transported the gun as it was from a friend and stayed at his friend's house and it was a legal gun"

Him - "Where did you hear all of that bullshit?"

Me - "I read the nightly transcripts. Not the news, the actual trial."

Him - "That's bullshit" and he storms off.

Perfect. Just perfect.

This is why I don't do politics on facebook.

[LuFins Dad]

@george-k said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

@jolly said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

Did any of these concerned assholes stop to think if there wasn't a riot, none of this would have happened...

Of course not.

But that argument is similar to Mrs. George's statement, "He shouldn't have been there."

She's right, he shouldn't have.

But, that's not a crime.

Rioting is.

GrossKreutz traveled about 80 miles to be there.

Do I think that there was a little part of Rittenhouse that was hoping somebody would try something? Yeah, I can see that. But that's not illegal, and it's certainly nigh on impossible to prove. At the same time I am sick of this "He shouldn't have been there" crap. Why not? Why shouldn't people be allowed and able to stand up to these protestors and say "No!"? We are actually denigrating, insulting, and convicting a kid that was handing out medical supplies, cleaning graffiti, and trying to protect a few buildings and businesses and at the same time we are glorifying a child molestor, an antifa jackass, a career violent criminal, and whatever was going on with the "paramedic".

[LuFins Dad]

@george-k said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

@lufins-dad said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

This is the conversation that I just had with one of our piano technicians -

"I can't believe they let that (bleeeeeeep) get away with it! Come on! WTF was he even doing there? He had no reason to be in Kenosha except to cause trouble! He didn't live there, he has no connection, he carried an illegal gun across state lines, and he"

Me - "No he didn't."

Him - "What?!"

Me - "He have every reason to be there. His dad lives there, he spends half of his time in the city, he had a job in Kenosha which is why he was there those particular days. He never transported the gun as it was from a friend and stayed at his friend's house and it was a legal gun"

Him - "Where did you hear all of that bullshit?"

Me - "I read the nightly transcripts. Not the news, the actual trial."

Him - "That's bullshit" and he storms off.

Perfect. Just perfect.

This is why I don't do politics on facebook.

There are decent people on the other side of the argument. People that honestly believe what they are saying. Unfortunately, the culture has led the various "media" (I don't necessarily mean journalists, just sources of information) to so badly misinform everybody on both sides that there is no reconciliation on these issues that are even possible.

We're done. I am firmly convinced that we have passed a line that we can't go back to.

[Copper]

@lufins-dad said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

We're done. I am firmly convinced that we have passed a line that we can't go back to.

There are some news stories, on which we can all agree

Most of us here remember this


[LuFins Dad]

@copper said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

@lufins-dad said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:

We're done. I am firmly convinced that we have passed a line that we can't go back to.

There are some news stories, on which we can all agree

Most of us here remember this


Most of the people preparing to riot don’t have any idea what that is referencing.

[jon-nyc]

@lufins-dad said in The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha:(/post/126059):

At the same time I am sick of this "He shouldn't have been there" crap. Why not?

He was there for the same reason the protesters were - to try on and act out an heroic self-image, and to participate in historic events.

[George K]

Gotta love the Bee: