Sign up for the NP Comment newsletter, NP Platformed. Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois resident who traveled to Wisconsin and shot three people during a protest last year, was found not guilty on all charges on Friday. 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. Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two, at a protest in Wisconsin last year. 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. 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. Kyle Rittenhouse broke down in tears as the jury found him not guilty on all five counts in his Wisconsin murder trial.MORE. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt The verdict, which found Rittenhouse not guilty on homicide and reckless endangerment charges that could have put him in prison for life, capped a heated.This was a serious violation of parental responsibility. That, in my opinion, is a serious mistake by a parent. A jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot three men during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the summer of 2020, not guilty of the charges against him. She took her underage son across state lines with an assault rifle to be a vigilante in a volatile civil disturbance. The person who should be found guilty is Rittenhouse’s Mother. A jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts in his murder trial connected to the shootings of three people during unrest in Kenosha during the summer of 2020. I suppose there was enough reasonable doubt to find him not guilty. Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all counts of shooting and killing two men and seriously wounding a third person. Now the only thing left for Kyle Rittenhouse to do is sue President Biden who implied Kyle was a “White supremacist” (before he was sworn in as president), CNN and all the other liberals who jumped to conclusions before they knew all the facts. This trial should have never happened, it was clearly a case of self-defense.
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