Whether you agree with the ruling or not, celebrating it when 2 people died is disgusting. There is no limit to how low that some people sink to. Hope karma comes for these people
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Whether you agree with the ruling or not, celebrating it when 2 people died is disgusting. There is no limit to how low that some people sink to. Hope karma comes for these people
He also tweeted this
Think it's fair to say this lad is scum. It's fair to say the people he shot were/are scum. Just a lot of scum going on.
Martin Alvito
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The Constitution might have something to say about that. There have been teenage state legislators, though.
A statement like that suggests that he's never read the Constitution. One wonders how he passed the bar exam.
2 of the people that Kyle shot dead were serial rapists. Maybe it isn't exactly disgusting.
What a bullshit claim. Kyle was giving out medical aid at the site of the riots and he was there to protect the businesses in Kenosha.
One of the people Kyle shot was giving out medical aid and, unlike Kyle, had medical training.
The only person who survived being shot by Kyle Rittenhouse takes the stand
Gaige Grosskreutz, who was armed with a pistol on the night of the shooting, testified that his hands were raised when Rittenhouse pointed the rifle at him. He said he believed he "was going to die."
www.npr.org
I feel sick that this is the outcome. Awful
Even by being there he was breaking the law.
he lied about being an EMT. He shot an EMT
actually I’ve no idea why I’m responding to you.
For me, this sentence perfectly sums up the entire situation.
We can show as much dismay and disgust at the verdict as we want, but criminal law is not as clear cut as society may believe or want it to be.
Ultimately, it boiled down to the threshold where he could not legitimately argue his actions were not in self-defence, and the prosecution couldn't meet it.
At that point, they weren't able to negate his right to defend himself based on all the other evidence.
Only in America could you grab a gun, travel to a different state and murder 3 protestors including an EMT and claim self defence. The US is one grim place
TimHowardsBeardJuice
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These are both true.
This boy disgusts me but give the way the law is written and the very high standard of proof the prosecution had to meet I did not think they’d be able to convict on the most serious charges.
The law is not evenly applied, never has been, if this kid is black, history says it’s a different outcome, but that’s an issue of the way the law is applied in practice. I would not be so quick as to change the law as some on my side of the fence have suggested. I’m not sure making prosecution easier is the unqualified good it seems.
That the cop was not indicted for shooting Jacob Blake 7x in the back is inexcusable and that’s what led to the unrest here.
No matter that the verdict makes sense on yge narrow legal questions, the larger points that 1) you can evidently carry a rifle around, looking for a pretext to use it (let’s be real, the kid wanted to shoot someone), and face no consequence 2) that he’s now a celebrity, these things make me sick and very afraid for my country. Please know that we are all not like this snd that there are so many good things about the USA and it’s people. But i am in despair tonight.
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It’s just madness that the part where he traveled out of state to an already tense protest, picked up a weapon of war on his way and then antagonized protestors by openly walking around with said weapon of war doesn’t factor into the equation. It seems to me that somewhere along that line terrible decisions the law should shift into “you’ve messed with the bull, now if you get the horns, that’s your fault” territory.
I'm betting the lads who normally harp on about personal responsibility and keenly rifle through a dead person's history to find whatever dirt they can will have absolutely nothing to say here
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