Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty of All Charges in Killing of Two White Men, Injuring Another. White Jury Found that the Teen Defended Himself Against White-On-White-Crime

Kyle Rittenhouse was NOT CHARGED WITH KILLING OR ATTEMPTING TO HARM ANYONE BLACK OR RANDOMLY KILLING PEOPLE HE THOUGHT WERE BLACK. CONTRARY TO THE MEDIA’S implied NARRATIVE, THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT ALLEGE THAT RITTENHOUSE MURDERED OR ASSAULTED THE 3 WHITE VICTIMS BECAUSE THEY WERE PROTESTING ON BEHALF OF BLACK PEOPLE OR THAT HE DID SO TO DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF WHITE PROPERTY OWNERS. IN FACT, HE DID NOT RANDOMLY ATTACK ANYONE. FROM THE VIDEOS, EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY IT SEEMED THAT HE WAS UNDER ATTACK AND DEFENDED HIMSELF; The following facts were undisputed BY THE GOVERNMENT;

IN A MATTER OF SECONDS, RITTENHOUSE KILLED 1) A WHITE MAN AFTER HE WAS CHASED BY THE WHITE MAN, 2) then WHILE FLEEING THE SCENE WITH PERSONS CHASING HIM HE FELL DOWN in the street. While on the ground another white man hit him in the head with a skateboard. while still on the ground RITTENHOUSE FATALLY SHOT THE WHITE MAN (once) as SAID WHITE MAN ATTEMPTED TO ALSO KICK HIM IN THE FACE. SUBSEQUENTLY WHILE TRYING TO FLEE 3) a 3RD WHITE MAN ATTEMPTED TO GRAB RITTENHOUSE’S GUN, SO RITTENHOUSE SHOT HIM ONCE AND FLED.

From [HERE] and [HERE] The saga of Kyle Rittenhouse has shown the extent of America’s political polarization. But the not guilty verdict returned by 12 unanimous jurors in his Kenosha, Wis. murder trial Friday shows that when presented deliberately with evidence and forced to reason with one another, Americans can still agree on basic facts.

And the facts presented at trial made it very hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Rittenhouse did not act in self-defense when he shot three men, killing two, who attacked him amid an anarchic scene in downtown Kenosha last summer when he was 17.

The encounters were captured on video. Joseph Rosenbaum sprinted after Mr. Rittenhouse, who ran away across a parking lot. Rosenbaum lunged toward the rifle before Mr. Rittenhouse, who was trapped against parked cars, fired. According to Mr. Rittenhouse and another witness, Rosenbaum had threatened to kill the teenager earlier in the night.

As Mr. Rittenhouse tried to flee toward police lines, he was pursued by a mob. The teenager eventually fell down, and fired when one man tried to kick him in the face, another tried to hit him with a skateboard, and another approached him and raised a pistol.

The prosecution said Mr. Rittenhouse was a “chaos tourist” who provoked the violence. Yet the teenager worked as a lifeguard in Kenosha, where his father lived. However bad his judgment in showing up with a weapon he didn’t own at a riot, his intention was to stand guard in front of businesses and administer first aid.

As all this was laid out in open court, the prosecution’s case appeared to flounder. Pundits baying for a guilty verdict blamed the Kenosha County Judge, Bruce Schroeder, for favoring the defense. Judge Schroeder’s real offense was weighing motions carefully to allow a fair trial. His admonishment of the prosecution for questioning Mr. Rittenhouse about exercising his right to remain silent was entirely appropriate. Remember when the civil liberties of criminal defendants were a liberal cause? [MORE]