The Kyle Rittenhouse trial

[terry5]

Surprised there isn't a thread on it. Jury's out, quite literally, but the prosecution are now demanding a mistrial.

What do you people think ?

Day 2 of jury deliberation in the Rittenhouse trial ends again without a verdict

Jurors spent 46 minutes reviewing two crucial videos — an FBI surveillance recording and footage shot from a drone. Rittenhouse's lawyers called again for a mistrial, this time over the drone video.

www.npr.org

U.S. teenager Rittenhouse's murder trial jury ends second day without verdict

Jurors in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse ended their second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict, after reviewing a series of videos on Wednesday of the teenager's deadly encounters at racial justice protests last year.

www.reuters.com

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being

I was remotely aware of the case via Yahoo News a few days ago and just now I saw this article there from which I quote :

So how is he a racist ?

Rittenhouse was 17 years old when he committed the alleged crimes.
He is a cop fetishist and a devotee of Donald trump .
He was photographed celebrating with an alleged white supremacist gang while awaiting trial.

Rittenhouse chose to travel from his home in Illinois to Kenosha that night, and has claimed he intended to serve as a "medic" (although he has no relevant training) and to help protect private property during the disturbances that took place in response to the police shooting of a Black man named Jacob Blake.

Rittenhouse was armed with an AR-15 assault-style rifle.

Rittenhouse is claiming the right of self-defense even though he chose to insert himself into the tumultuous events of that summer night in Wisconsin.

Witnesses for the prosecution have testified that Rittenhouse instigated the life-threatening situation, in which he then claimed the need to use lethal force to protect himself.

Rittenhouse made a brief attempt to surrender after the shootings to law enforcement, who ignored him.

The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January

Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.” A Trump campaign spokesperson said, "This individual had nothing to do with our campaign."

www.buzzfeednews.com

 

[terry5]

From what I can make out American police use much force during their duty and maybe there was a racial element for George Floyd. But it cannot be denied that many American Blacks are not quite like Denzel Washington, Louis Farrakhan etc. All that nonsense of Bling and Gangsta Rap has destroyed Black culture. Blacks have to remember their American history of movements like the Black Panthers though not for armed resistance but for disciplining themselves.

start here .

“In this book sociologist Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now more than four centuries old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of accented language, interlinking interpretations and narratives, and inclinations to discriminate that are central to the frame's everyday operations. Deeply imbedded in American minds and institutions, this white racial frame has for centuries functioned as a broad worldview, one essential to the routine legitimation, scripting, and maintenance of systemic racism in the United States. Here Feagin examines how and why this white racial frame emerged in North America, how and why it has evolved socially over time, which racial groups are framed within it, how it has operated in the past and present for both white Americans and Americans of color, and how the latter have long responded with strategies of resistance that include enduring counter-frames. In this third edition, Feagin has included much new data from many recent research studies on framing issues related to white, black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian Americans, and on society generally. The book also includes a more extensive discussion of the impact of the white frame on popular culture, including on video games, movies, and television programs, as well as a discussion of the white racial frame's significant impacts on public policymaking on immigration, the environment, health care, and crime and imprisonment issues.”

 

[Dalit]

I am an innocent white boy.... Please don't lock me up.

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being



Rittenhouse was 17 years old when he committed the alleged crimes.
He is a cop fetishist and a devotee of Donald trump .
He was photographed celebrating with an alleged white supremacist gang while awaiting trial.

Rittenhouse chose to travel from his home in Illinois to Kenosha that night, and has claimed he intended to serve as a "medic" (although he has no relevant training) and to help protect private property during the disturbances that took place in response to the police shooting of a Black man named Jacob Blake.

Rittenhouse was armed with an AR-15 assault-style rifle.

Rittenhouse is claiming the right of self-defense even though he chose to insert himself into the tumultuous events of that summer night in Wisconsin.

Witnesses for the prosecution have testified that Rittenhouse instigated the life-threatening situation, in which he then claimed the need to use lethal force to protect himself.

Rittenhouse made a brief attempt to surrender after the shootings to law enforcement, who ignored him.

The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January

Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.” A Trump campaign spokesperson said, "This individual had nothing to do with our campaign."

www.buzzfeednews.com

All these Indian and Greek scum vouching for this little white racist are just like him.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

All these Indian and Greek scum vouching for this little white racist are just like him.

Um..he shot 3 white rioters/looters...

Kyle Rittenhouse judge says men shot by teen can be called ‘rioters’ and ‘looters’ – but not ‘victims’

Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal team can brand the men shot by the teen in Kenosha, Wis., as “rioters” and “looters” when his murder trial starts next week.

nypost.com

 

[Dalit]

Um..he shot 3 white looters/rioters...

LOL they weren't rioters or looters. They were antifa protestors.

This Kyle dude is a Trump supporter. Anyone can do the math.

Please, please. I can't breathe. Please provide me some Indian oxygen.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

LOL they weren't rioters or looters. They were antifa protestors.

This Kyle dude is a Trump supporter. Anyone can do the math.

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Please, please. I can't breathe. Please provide me some Indian oxygen.

LOL! I think the one that can't breathe is you.

Some guy runs into a car dealership to loot and burn and gets a faceful of lead.
Like anybody should feel sorry for him.

 

[Dalit]

LOL! I think the one that can't breathe is you.

Some guy runs into a car dealership to loot and burn and gets a faceful of lead.
Like anybody should feel sorry for him.

LOL I can't breathe? It only proves my point. As I predicted a few years ago, your country is heading exactly in that direction. A fractured society ready to pick up guns and settle scores on the street.

Keep it up with your gun justice fetish. I like it.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

LOL I can't breathe? It only proves my point. As I predicted a few years ago, your country is heading exactly in that direction. A fractured society ready to pick up guns and settle scores on the street.

Keep it up with your gun justice fetish. I like it.

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LOL! You are just some cry-baby Liberal who is sad to see some troublemaker in the streets get his due for trying to damage somebody else's property.

If you Liberals losers want to riot do us all a favor and go burn your own house down instead of others...and then do some group weeping at your proud moment...while we laugh at you!

Whoever currently has the Thanos Gauntlet can you please snap your fingers for me and have this fool banned again for the 1000th time.

 

[Dalit]

LOL! You are just some cry-baby liberal who is sad to see some troublemaker in the streets get his due for trying to damage somebody else's property.

If you liberals want to riot do us all a favor and go burn your own house down instead of others...and then do some group weeping at your proud moment!

LOL Look at your boy cry like a baby. He is gasping for air.

LOL that redneck judge of yours was a joke. Cussing and screaming during the trial.

 

[FuturePAF]

There is no option in the voting for “not well meaning but this was still self defense”. This was a trigger happy nut that crossed state lines and when he riled up some people, he got himself into a situation where every problem looked like a nail and all he had was a hammer.

p.s. maybe the characterization of Rittenhouse was much; “trigger happy nut” was unfair, although his behavior of running around with the rifle riled up a lot of people, contributing to a situation that spun out of control.

what can be learned from this episode, IMHO, is how these kinds of riled up people on both sides leads to tragedies. Add to this the first death was someone just released from a mental health care facility, who may not have been in the right state of mind, walking into a volatile situation.

People are perpetually on edge across the nation and there needs to be some reconciliation to bring the temperature down, along with funding for mental health care and rehabilitation for substance abusers.

 

[tower9]

Was Kyle destroying property? Was he looting and stealing? No, he was defending a community that was being thrashed by hordes.

I honestly don't even care that much if he really acted out in self defense, although clearly at least 1 of the 2 murders show that he was defending himself. I am sick and tired of thugs and deadbeats destroying and looting, they all deserve to be killed tbh. I am glad Kyle is walking free.

 

[Oldman1]

There is no option in the voting for “not well meaning but this was still self defense”. This was a trigger happy nut that crossed state lines and when he riled up some people, he got himself into a situation where every problem looked like a nail and all he had was a hammer.

p.s. maybe the characterization of Rittenhouse was much; “trigger happy nut” was unfair, although his behavior of running around with the rifle riled up a lot of people, contributing to a situation that spun out of control.

what can be learned from this episode, IMHO, is how these kinds of riled up people on both sides leads to tragedies. Add to this the first death was someone just released from a mental health care facility, who may not have been in the right state of mind, walking into a volatile situation.

People are perpetually on edge across the nation and there needs to be some reconciliation to bring the temperature down, along with funding for mental health care and rehabilitation for substance abusers.

Hold on a second, he wasn't the only one carrying a weapon there. The only reason he was involved because another person was pissed that Kyle put out a fire of a trash bin being pushed to one of the businesses by the rioters and the so called "victim" chased after him, getting himself killed in the process. He ran away from the trouble after that shooting and they chased him down and he had to defend himself.

 

[Mugwop]

Here's proof of him being a racist

Um..he shot 3 white rioters/looters...

Kyle Rittenhouse judge says men shot by teen can be called ‘rioters’ and ‘looters’ – but not ‘victims’

Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal team can brand the men shot by the teen in Kenosha, Wis., as “rioters” and “looters” when his murder trial starts next week.

nypost.com

Why did he shoot them? Is he a cop? Why put yourself in such a situation?

 

[Oldman1]

Here's proof of him being a racist

Why did he shoot them? Is he a cop? Why put yourself in such a situation?

Why put yourself in a situation chasing after someone with an AR besides a bunch of other people with rifles?

Imagine trying to do that against these guys and ask, why did they shoot them?

 

[Dalit]

Here's proof of him being a racist

Why did he shoot them? Is he a cop? Why put yourself in such a situation?

This is America. You are allowed to take the law into your own hands if you are white.

Every prediction of mine is spot on. America is burning and the Yankees don't even realise it LOL Too preoccupied with their left right hate.

Anyone need any medical aid? Medical aid?! Let's shoot randomly...