Kyle Rittenhouse has been found not guilty on all charges in the shooting deaths of two men and wounding of a third at a Wisconsin protest against racial injustice last year. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1461761381552861186 Rittenhouse took the stand during the trial telling jurors he killed the men in self-defense. From CNN:
“I didn’t do anything wrong. I defended myself,” he testified.
Rittenhouse, now 18, was charged with five felonies:
• First-degree intentional homicide • First-degree reckless homicide • Attempted first-degree intentional homicide • Two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety
Jurors were also able to consider lesser offenses for two of the five counts.
Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed a misdemeanor weapons possession charge and a non-criminal curfew violation during the trial.
(PS) I mention this because the hunt will now be on for far-right demagogues searching through social media to find journalists predicting a conviction. They’ll have to search very hard, as most experts predicted the verdict we just saw and did so from very early on in the trial.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 19, 2021
The justice system is not broken.
It’s completely fixed for white male killers with guns.
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) November 19, 2021
That a teenager could travel across state lines to a protest he had nothing to do with; shoot three people, killing two; and face no criminal consequences is a miscarriage of justice and an indictment of our criminal justice system. It is also an America the NRA has created.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) November 19, 2021
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