On November 18, 2021, Kyle Rittenhouse was on trial at Kenosha County Court in Kenosha, Wisconsin, awaiting a judge before the jury dissolution that day. (Sean Krajacic / Pool via Reuters)
PotassiumIl Rittenhouse used to be Acquit all charges It is related to the shooting and killing of three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin last August, two of whom were fatal. The jury correctly determined that Rittenhouse’s actions were in self-defense.
This case should not be brought up, and it has a taste of political catering. On the third night of the riots after the police shot and killed Jacob Black, Rittenhouse was on the streets of Kenosha where he worked and his father lived.The riots that lasted for several days are the end of a series of themselves Wrong decision of Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, Who incited the wrong anger in the Black shooting, and then rejected the call for a sufficient number of National Guard members to be sent on the street to restore order.
Rittenhouse was 17 years old at the time—regardless of why he first came to Kenosha—he was clearly not the aggressor in the confrontation that night. He was attacked by three men one after the other. One of them hit him on the head with a skateboard and a stick, and the other admitted from the stands that Rittenhouse only opened fire when he pointed a gun at Rittenhouse. He shot all three and killed the first two.
Every American has the basic right to self-defense. Since ancient times, the law has recognized this right. As detailed by Andy McCarthyThe Rittenhouse prosecutor tried to criminalize this right by arguing that he protected himself from the attack of the first attacker so that he could compete fairly in the next two games. The prosecutor also used a suspicious accusation that Rittenhouse was illegal to carry a rifle. This was an excessive interpretation of Wisconsin law and was correctly rejected by the trial judge.
Listening to hysterical media reports, you will never know this, because these reports are obsessed with Rittenhouse crossing the state line to Kenosha and baselessly calling Rittenhouse a “white supremacist”, this is Biden The accusation repeated shamefully by the President and other Democratic politicians-it doesn’t matter that the three people he shot were all white. The same media is now outraged by the verdict and is actually begging for more riots. Biden, his belated credit, now says that the verdict should be respected.
The trial was conducted in a shameful circus atmosphere. Journalists across the country demonized the trial judge (a Democrat with decades of experience on the bench, known for favoring criminal defendants), and the prosecutor pointed his finger. The jury triggered, and MSNBC was eventually kicked out of court because a stringer was caught on the bus following the jurors. The jury’s credit is that they did not collapse under the pressure of throwing the defendant to the wolves.
After this fiasco, more judges should reconsider installing cameras in their courts, but at least their appearance showed the country the complete collapse of the prosecution program. Will more commentators notice.
Criminal cases are often messy. Experiments often show that the people involved are much more complicated than the effort to turn them into heroes, villains, or stand-ins for an entire race. The important thing is that Kyle Rittenhouse accepted due process and fair trial before a peer jury. One day, any of us may depend on this.
