The 18-year-old, who has become a darling of the American right, and whose defence was funded by well-wishers, will go free. Those on the left, including a congresswoman who called Mr Rittenhouse a “domestic terrorist”, and even Joe Biden, who implied he was awill find themselves wondering why 12 ordinary men and women in the courtroom did not agree.
The acquittal could not be predicted, because the trial did not rest on the facts. Most of those were well known long before any witness took the stand. After a night of rioting that followed the shooting by police of a black man, Jacob Blake, Mr Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, travelled to Kenosha to volunteer to defend businesses from looters. He took with him an ar-15 style semi-automatic rifle he had paid a friend, Dominick Black, to purchase for him .
Rather, the case relied on the jury’s assessment of Mr Rittenhouse’s mind at the moment of the shootings.
Earlier in the trial, Bruce Schroeder, the judge, had stressed that the decision was “not a political trial”. Yet in his jury instructions, he also specifically told them to “pay no heed to the opinions of anyone—even the president of the United States or the president before him”. In contrast to Mr Biden’s intervention, Donald Trump had suggested he was only defending himself.
Ultimately, politics is hard to avoid in cases like this, because the law asks a jury to decide what is a “reasonable” use of a gun, says Samuel Buell of Duke University. That is not something most Americans agree on. In the past decade or so, the “open carry” of weapons, particularly to sensitive events such as protests, has burgeoned, led by right-wing
There is a divide over guns, but the Rittenhouse trial was mostly about which guy with a gun people sided with.
PLEASE sue her.
Bet you everyone left or right would have done exactly what he did. Unless you're suicidal
He’s doing porn after this.
Or in other terms, “The Culturally and Socially Encouraged Narcissism & Psychopathy of Violent White Privileged Men Finds Itself •Audaciously• & Dangerously Questioned By Those Who Systematically Fall Prey To Its Terrorist Ideology & Praxis”
Reasonable use of a gun by a civilian: being male, white, and in protection of the patriarchy and/or capitalism including but not limited to violence against women. How do you guys not see this is the issue? Because it’s as legitimized as the air we all breathe.
It’s being white. That’s the generally acceptable use of a gun: using it while being white, full stop. The decisions of the courts have proved this time, and time, and time, again. Don’t come at me, go after the decision makers in these cases. Y’all really don’t see this?
in other words , if you think someone is threatening you just get out your gun and kill them.
he came to the demonstration to kill people and this is what he has done .... he should not be free ... shame for US 'Democracy'
In Wisconsin, it's any time you like, even if you're the threat with an illegal firearm.
So in today’s America, a 17 year-old kid can strap on an illegally obtained semi-automatic assault rifle, drive to a city enflamed by racial hatred, join a police patrol, shoot 3 people, killing two of them, claim self-defense and walk away scot-free. WTF America?
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