"We're going to continue to fight," Justin Blake, the uncle of Jacob Blake, told news cameras posted outside. Several of the demonstrators, including members of Jacob Blake's family, said justice wasn't given in the case. Outside the courthouse, opposing groups of protesters exploded with cheers and boos as the verdict was read. A Daily Caller reporter was at the scene of the Rosenbaum shooting and said a bullet whizzed past him. Rittenhouse fired at an unidentified man twice before he shot Huber and Grosskreutz. Rittenhouse was acquitted on all five charges he faced: first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide and two first-degree recklessly endangering safety counts. Prosecutors said Rittenhouse should have fled or fought without firing his gun if he feared for his safety, but the defense argued he thought the men could take his firearm and use it to kill him or others. While Rittenhouse argued he acted in self-defense, prosecutors said he provoked the attacks by bringing his AR-15 style rifle to the protest and pointing it at others, which the defense disputed.Īlthough Grosskreutz was armed with a pistol, Rosenbaum and Huber were not. Rittenhouse said he was in Kenosha to help the community during the unrest, but prosecutors painted him as a vigilante looking for trouble.
Police mistreatment of people of color has become a cultural flashpoint on the left, just as social justice protests have for those on the right.īlake, whose shooting sparked the protests in Kenosha, was left paralyzed, and the white police officer who shot him was cleared of any federal or state charges. Sign up for the NP Comment newsletter, NP Platformed.Tears, yelling and calls for a mistrial: What a dramatic day could mean for the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trialĪlthough Rittenhouse is white, as were his victims, the shootings occurred during a racial justice protest. Rather than continue to use Rittenhouse as a political punching bag, it would be better if politicians, activists and those in the media who misrepresented the case, simply accepted that they were wrong, that Rittenhouse was innocent and that there is important work to be done elsewhere which can meaningfully contribute to a more equitable justice system. If anything, it would have encouraged a tit-for-tat approach to racial conflict, and, by undermining rule of law, would have made it harder to build up stronger legal rights for all marginalized Americans, black or otherwise. Unfairly convicting Rittenhouse would have done nothing to protect black Americans who face a legal system that is stacked against them. But if white Americans get fair trials while black Americans don’t, it’s hard to see how unfairly prosecuting a white kid will fix anything.
Perhaps that’s true - the American legal system is often unfair and cruel to Black people. Some have said that if Rittenhouse was black, he would have been convicted. This kind of self-delusion is disturbing - because it is always disturbing when politicians and media distort the truth, especially if that applies pressure on America’s legal system to follow the dictates of a mob justice that is impervious to facts. Yet as the facts have become clearer, political outrage over Rittenhouse has stayed steady and, in some cases, intensified. It was also understandable that racial justice advocates would be sensitive about the shooting. When Rittenhouse’s story first hit the news, some facts were murky and that was understandable. Notably, these critics have had a tendency to avoid addressing the facts of the case, making bold accusations that are unanchored to specific evidence.
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Once the verdict came out, critics insinuated that the jury was secretly full of racists. Rittenhouse’s critics, rather than accept that they had been wrong, began to attack the legitimacy of the legal proceedings. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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