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Not even the judge's admonishment of Rittenhouse's recklessness manifested!
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docufo
2021-11-19 21:37:36 UTC
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My reaction and the dreadful lack of even a judge's admonishment for his
provocative armed presence in a very riotous dangerous zone is all here
and I have little else to say than this:

If we wish as a government to permit untrained, very youthful, gun-happy
extremists patrol our cities playing amateur cop, paramilitary soldier
or "hero" roles in times of great hatred, fear and violence, then we
missed the boat back in the 1960s. Leftists could've carried openly many
military style weapons and strutted through the many riotous zones back
then, praised by our people as patriots and heroes - and when attackers
got shot dead, exonerated in our courts as "self defense."
We should've started this sick trend decades ago and by now, we'd had
millions of "patriots" - not even out of high school - take over the
roles of governmental law enforcement whether they're needed or not.
After all, anyone should know that a kid like Kyle is a nice role model
for others in his generation! Eh?
Vigilantism rises again! And as this article sums it up,

After the verdict, Huber’s parents, Karen Bloom and John Huber, said the
outcome “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.”

(unquote)

But, the raucously fanatical GOP and Trumpers would argue the violence
was already there, done by the Left! And the Left would reply, "That's
because a white cop shot a black man fleeing seven times in his back."
As this article underlines, the jury was believed to be overwhelmingly
white, the judge was white, the defense was white, and even most of the
onlookers were white in the court room.
He shot three white men and he was, of course, white as the driven snow.
LOL! No possibility of any racism in this saga. Aren't we happy? Jacob
Blake's shooting and paralysis and the injustice of it and so many other
similar white cop-black victim cases will keep evolving, though.
The judge's absence of a tongue-lashing of KrazyKyle spoke volumes on
his willingness to depict the teenager as a victimized hero of sorts.
The judge went after the prosecution and then chastised the news media.
He had no chastisement whatsoever of KrazyKyle, who likely will attempt
to disappear due to possible revenge.
I'd suggest his family move and change identities. Perhaps they can
relocate in...Belarus. I hear that nation is run by a crazy autocrat
that once armed himself with an assault rifle in public. It seems a
perfect land for them to settle in.
LOL!
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By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI
y ASSOCIATED PRESS |
PUBLISHED: November 19, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. | UPDATED: November 19, 2021
at 12:30 p.m.

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — 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 forward toward the defense
table and then hugged one of his attorneys as he heard a court clerk
recite “not guilty” five times. His mother, seated nearby on a courtroom
bench, gasped in delight, cried and hugged others around her.

A sheriff’s deputy immediately whisked him out a back door.

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“He wants to get on with his life,” defense attorney Mark Richards said.
“He has a huge sense of relief for what the jury did to him today. He
wishes none of this ever happened. But as he said when he testified, he
did not start this.”

He said Rittenhouse, who wants to be a nurse, is in counseling for post
traumatic stress disorder and will probably move away because “it’s too
dangerous” for him to continue to live in the area.

Rittenhouse was charged with homicide, attempted homicide and reckless
endangering for killing two men and wounding a third with an AR-style
semi-automatic rifle in the summer of 2020 during a tumultuous night of
protests over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white
Kenosha police officer.

Rittenhouse, a former police youth cadet, said he went to Kenosha to
protect property from rioters. He is white, as were those he shot.

The anonymous jury, whose racial makeup was not disclosed by the court
but appeared to be overwhelmingly white, deliberated for close to 3 1/2
days.

Rittenhouse could have gotten life in prison if found guilty on the most
serious charge, first-degree intentional homicide, or what some other
states call first-degree murder. Two other charges each carried over 60
years behind bars.

Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said his office
respects the jury’s decision, and he asked the public to “accept the
verdicts peacefully and not resort to violence.”

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who announced last week that 500 National
Guard members stood ready in case of trouble after the verdict, likewise
pleaded for calm.

As he dismissed the jurors who sat in judgment in the politically
combustible case, Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder assured them the court
would take “every measure” to keep them safe.

The shootings exposed a deep divide in the U.S., with some Americans
condemning Rittenhouse as a vigilante, while others on the right hailed
him as a hero who exercised his Second Amendment gun rights and tried to
put a stop to lawlessness. The reaction to the verdict reflected the
same divide.

Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is Black and a Democratic
candidate for U.S. Senate, denounced the outcome. He, like many civil
rights activists, saw a racial double standard at work in the case.

“Over the last few weeks, many dreaded the outcome we just witnessed,”
Barnes said. “The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is what
we should expect from our judicial system, but that standard is not
always applied equally. We have seen so many black and brown youth
killed, only to be put on trial posthumously, while the innocence of
Kyle Rittenhouse was virtually demanded by the judge.”

Political figures on the right, meanwhile, welcomed the verdict and
condemned the case brought against Rittenhouse.

“All of us who knew what actually happened in Kenosha last year assumed
this would be the verdict,” tweeted Republican former Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker. “Thankfully, the jury thought the same.”

The case was part of an extraordinary confluence of trials that
reflected the deep divide over race in the United States: In Georgia,
three white men are on trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, while in
Virginia, a trial is underway in a lawsuit over the deadly
white-supremacist rally held in Charlottesville in 2017.

The bloodshed in Kenosha took place during a summer of sometimes-violent
protests set off across the U.S. by the killing of George Floyd in
Minneapolis and other cases involving the police use of force against
Black people.

Rittenhouse was 17 when he went to Kenosha from his home in nearby
Antioch, Illinois, after businesses were ransacked and burned in the
nights that followed Blake’s shooting. Rittenhouse carried a weapon
authorities said was illegally purchased for the underage young man,
joining other armed civilians on the streets.

Bystander and drone video captured most of the frenzied chain of events
that followed: Rittenhouse killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, then shot to
death protester Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded demonstrator Gaige
Grosskreutz, now 28.

Then-President Donald Trump said it appeared Rittenhouse had been “very
violently attacked.” Supporters donated more than $2 million toward his
legal defense.

At trial, prosecutors portrayed Rittenhouse as a “wannabe soldier” who
had gone looking for trouble that night and was responsible for creating
a dangerous situation in the first place by pointing his rifle at
demonstrators.

But Rittenhouse testified: “I didn’t do anything wrong. I defended myself.”

Breaking into sobs at one point, he told the jury he opened fire after
Rosenbaum chased him and made a grab for his gun. He said he was afraid
his rifle was going to be wrested away and used to kill him.

Huber was then killed after hitting Rittenhouse in the head or neck with
a skateboard, and Grosskreutz was shot after pointing a gun of his own
at Rittenhouse.

After the verdict, Huber’s parents, Karen Bloom and John Huber, said the
outcome “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.”

Video and testimony from some of the prosecution’s own witnesses seemed
to buttress Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense.

Witnesses described Rosenbaum as “hyperaggressive” and said that he
dared others to shoot him and threatened to kill Rittenhouse earlier
that night. A videographer testified Rosenbaum lunged for the rifle just
before he was shot, and a pathologist said his injuries appeared to
indicate his hand was over the barrel.

Also, Rosenbaum’s fiancee disclosed that he was on medication for
bipolar disorder and depression. Rittenhouse’s lawyers branded Rosenbaum
a “crazy person.”

Some civil rights activists saw a racial double standard in the way the
white gunman was treated.

On the night of the shootings, law enforcement officers saw Rittenhouse
and other armed people on the streets despite a curfew and gave them
bottles of water, with one officer heard saying over a loudspeaker, “We
appreciate you guys.”

Later, amid the tumult, Rittenhouse managed to get past a police line
with his weapon slung over his shoulder and was not arrested that night.
He turned himself in the next day.

Rittenhouse had also been charged with possession of a dangerous weapon
by a person under 18, a misdemeanor that carries nine months behind bars
and appeared likely to lead to a conviction.

But the judge threw out that charge before jury deliberations after the
defense argued that the Wisconsin law did not apply to the long-barreled
rifle used by Rittenhouse.

https://www.presstelegram.com/2021/11/19/jury-finds-rittenhouse-not-guilty-in-kenosha-shootings/
JTEM is Magic
2021-11-20 00:34:49 UTC
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Post by docufo
My reaction and the dreadful lack of even a judge's admonishment for his
provocative armed presence in a very riotous dangerous zone
One guy whoo was provocatively AND ILLEGALLY ARMED at a riot and
was caught on tape committing a very serious felony -- assault with a
deadly weapon AND attempted murder -- wasn't even charged.

The point is NOBODY belonged there. NOBODY should have been there. So
lock them all up for being there or none of them.

This is a political lynching. Rittenhouse was on the wrong side. That was his
crime. It wasn't where he was, it wasn't what he was doing it was the fact
that he was there for the wrong reasons -- to help a community and not
destroy it in outrage.

You're on the wrong side. You're pro hysterics, pro riot, pro violence and
arson. And that's okay so long as it's you they terrorize and kill, your home
they set on fire but it never is. It's always a case where someone else has
to pay for your mistakes.

You gave us Trump & Kavanaugh. Now you're going to give us death &
destruction.





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