The Media's Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse - "Unless you’re a regular reader of independent reporting — Jacob Siegel of Tablet Magazine and Jesse Singal stand out for being ahead of the pack (and pilloried, like clockwork, for not going along with the herd) — you would have been served a pack of lies about what happened during those terrible days in Kenosha. And you would have been shocked over the past two weeks as the trial unfolded in Wisconsin as every core claim was undermined by the evidence of what actually happened that night. This wasn’t a disinformation campaign waged by Reddit trolls or anonymous Twitter accounts. It was one pushed by the mainstream media and sitting members of Congress for the sake of an expedient political narrative—a narrative that asked people to believe, among other unrealities, that blocks of burning buildings somehow constituted peaceful protests... In addition to having a job in Kenosha, Rittenhouse testified that much of his family lived there: his father, his grandma, his aunt and uncle, and his cousins. He also testified that on the morning of the shootings, he went downtown with his sister and friends to see the damage done by rioting the night before, and spent about two hours cleaning graffiti off of the local high school... Kyle Rittenhouse did not travel to Kenosha to oppose protesters. He testified under oath that he had traveled to Kenosha for his job the night before the shootings, and was staying at a friend’s house... Rittenhouse didn’t bring the gun to Kenosha. The gun was purchased for Rittenhouse months earlier by a friend and stored in Kenosha at the home of that friend’s stepfather, as then-17-year-old Rittenhouse was too young to purchase it... there’s no clear indication that Rittenhouse sought to kill anyone. What we know is that he showed up with a first aid kit and an AR-15-style rifle. Video evidence, and Rittenhouse’s own testimony, indicates that he offered medical assistance to protestors and ran with a fire extinguisher to try to put out fires... Both video evidence and the only living person that Rittenhouse shot that night, Gaige Grosskreutz, undermined the idea that Rittenhouse was simply an aggressor looking for a fight. During cross examination Grosskreutz acknowledged that Rittenhouse shot him only after Grosskreutz had pointed his own gun at Rittenhouse... Here is Congresswoman Cori Bush... Ryan Balch, another witness for the prosecution, testified that Rosenbaum threatened both Balch and Rittenhouse saying, “If I catch you guys alone tonight, I’m gonna fucking kill you.” In the aftermath of the media frenzy around the Covington Catholic story at least there were some mea culpas from the mainstream press, some sense of shame, some desire to get the egg off their faces. But with rare exception it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting that here... the idea that white supremacists hid behind a hill and shot at Bush and her fellow protestors in Ferguson — and that this somehow went completely uncovered until now —sounds a bit like the false claim that the government intentionally blew up the levees in the Ninth Ward during Katrina. Or that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax. Only this is a statement from a sitting member of the United States Congress. It’s Qanon made respectable... the press, in the main, got just about every key fact in the Rittenhouse case wrong... We saw the night of August 25 what can occur when the state fails or refuses to do what it is uniquely charged to do: maintain the rule of law. It did not help that in many places last summer, cities and police forces indicated or explicitly said they wouldn’t defend people’s property from destruction or burglary during the unrest. And it didn’t help our understanding of what transpired on August 25 that we were told repeatedly by national media outlets that there weren’t riots, and there wasn’t violence in Kenosha that night until Kyle Rittenhouse discharged his weapon. We could all see the blocks of burning buildings with our own eyes. To acknowledge the facts of what happened that night is not political. It is simply to acknowledge reality. It is to say that facts are still facts and that lies are lies. It is to insist that mob justice is not justice. It is to say that media consensus is not the equivalent of due process. And that pretending otherwise for the sake of political expediency is why the National Guard is now standing watch in Kenosha, bracing for violence once again in the anticipation of a verdict that for many, has already been decided."
BlueAnon is good, of course
I still see liberals lying that cities weren't burning
Cori Bush: If Rittenhouse Walks, White Supremacists 'Can Shoot at Us' - "When further pressed for comment, a spokesperson for the Bush campaign said that white supremacists opened fire on the congresswoman while providing no specifics... Just one minor problem with Bush’s assertion: it never happened. According to Ferguson Police Chief Frank McCall Jr., a black man, the department has no record of such an incident... The only documented incident of the type described by Bush occurred in March 2015 when two police officers forming a security line outside the Ferguson police headquarters were shot, causing protesters to flee. Jeffrey Williams, a black man, was later arrested and convicted of the shooting."
Judge Lets Rittenhouse Pick Numbers Out Of Raffle Drum For Jury - "Former Milwaukee County assistant district attorney Julius Kim also commented on the unorthodox jury selection approach. "I've never seen a judge allow a defendant to draw those names. That might be a little unconventional but there's nothing wrong with it that I could really see."
Milwaukee-based defense attorney Tom Grieve was nonplussed. He also said he hasn't seen a defendant do that before in the courtroom, "but it's a shoulder shrug for me." "I don't really care. The point is they have some system to arrive at 12 jurors. It's certainly unusual but I don't see anything wrong with it."
Social media uses, however, were stunned."
Ironically, these liberals are usually very big on trusting experts - when they agree with them
Escape The Echo Chamber - Posts | Facebook - "“In fact, he and other conservative protesters were handed water bottles and thanked by police.”
• The mention of “conservatives” is gratuitous, and though it is likely technically correct (we don’t actually know the politics of most involved) this ignores the distinction that Rittenhouse wasn’t protesting and didn’t express any political views in the hours of recordings of him. He and his group were not protesting and rioting, they were protecting property and offering aid. (A couple of people protecting property that night can be seen antagonizing protestors and often being challenged about their behavior by others in the group.)
“Even after the shootings took place, Rittenhouse was not immediately arrested, and walked past police vehicles freely.”
• The officers who he tried to give himself up to, were continuing to hear gunshots near where the original shootings were and believed that the person responsible was still shooting others. That’s why they were eager to get Rittenhouse out of the way so they could continue...
The polarization of society and poor quality of reporting is affecting the criminal justice system. It’s more important than ever that citizens insist that civil liberties be protected and that the lady justice is blind. The canaries in this coal mine are the poor and unpopular who are most susceptible to flaws in the system. If well funded defendants, such as Rittenhouse, can’t receive fair treatment then nobody will. All should be treated equally under the law. Something almost all of us can agree on in principle, if not in practice."
Meme - Police to rioters with guns and molotov cocktails: "Charges dropped. You're free to go"
Police to Kyle Rittenhouse: "Hol' up"
Lisa Boothe on Twitter - ".@VP Harris: "The verdict really speaks for itself. As many of you know, I spent a majority of my career working to make the justice system more equitable, and clearly there is a lot more work to do.""
"What a witch."
Meme - "Kyle Rittenhouse being found innocent means that if a violent mob sees someone they don't like, they have to leave him alone
Rittenhouse being guilty would mean that if you can't outrun a violent mob, you're legally obliged to let them kill you"
GregGutfeld on Twitter - Mayor Eric Adams: "Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims. They should be alive today. The only reason they’re not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people. To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement."
"You are fanning the flames for violence in the city you’ve already destroyed. You’re a disgusting human being."
Rittenhouse Verdict Raises Concerns That It’s No Longer Safe To Beat People To Death With A Skateboard | The Babylon Bee
Man dies after being hit in head with skateboard during fight in Santa Ana Starbucks
Meme - "Defund the police! We can police our own communities."
"..policed his community..."
*Ree*
Tim Stanley on Twitter - "Forgive my ignorance, but can you accuse someone of doing something a court just found they didn't do, and for motives that are unproven? Working in UK newspapers where we (rightly) have to be so careful, I find this orgy of potential defamation fascinating to watch."
Meme - "The Media has no choice but to hate Kyle. He defended himself against the monster they created, and showed the world why someone would need an AR15 with 30rds."
Meme - Mark Ruffalo: "We come together to mourn the lives lost to the same racist system that devalues Black lives and devalued the lives of Anthony and JoJo. #ReimagineKenosha"
"JoJo was a good man. He loved children."
Meme - Andy @ @MrAndyNgo: "Left-wing accounts are furious and are inciting mass violence on Twitter after Kyle #Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all the charges. #Kenosha"
"do not post about crimes on the internet do not post about crimes on the internet do not post about crimes on the internet do not post about crimes on the internet"
"It's ok we will riot tonight."
"It's time to burn it down in Kenosha. #fuckkyle"
"Reminder folks: It only takes between 6 and 10 people to flip a police car"
Qasim Rashid, Esq. on Twitter - "Chrystul Kizer—17-yr-old Black girl in Wisconsin who killed the man raping & trafficking her •Convicted & case is now in Appeals Kyle Rittenhouse—17-yr-old white boy in Wisconsin who took an AR-15 to a protest & killed 2 •Acquitted The system isnt broken—it was built this way"
Chrystul Kizer case - Wikipedia - "Prosecutors allege that Kizer killed Volar on June 5, 2018, by shooting him in the head. Charging documents say Kizer admitted to taking an Uber from Milwaukee to Volar's residence, shooting him because "she had gotten upset and she was tired of [him] touching her", and then starting a fire at the residence before departing in Volar's BMW. A neighbor called 9-1-1 to report the fire at Volar's house. Police found and identified his burned body, and a later autopsy showed he had been shot in the head. Volar's car was found abandoned in Milwaukee. Police used a receipt found in the car, surveillance video, and Facebook to track the stolen car to Kizer by matching an arrest photo to her selfies and live video. Prosecutors allege Kizer also stole a laptop and cash from Volar."
Child sex trafficking murder: Chrystul Kizer, charged with killing Randy Volar, faces life in prison. - Washington Post - "She doesn’t remember going to get the pistol. She does remember the sound it made... This was a different story than what she initially told detectives. On the day she was arrested, Chrystul said she didn’t know Volar. Then she said she saw another woman shoot him. Months later, she would tell police that Nelson had been the one to kill him... His court filings show that a few days before the crime, Chrystul sent a Facebook message to a friend saying, “I’m finna get a bmw.” Her friend asked when. Chrystul replied, “Soon.”... The night of the crime, according to prosecutors, Chrystul was texting two people about where the key to “the car” was and that she had learned how to start it. At 10:42 p.m., she texted: “When u want me to do it bae.” At 11:09 p.m.: “Nun but I’m finna do it rn [right now] doe.” 11:13 p.m.: “I’m finna do it.”"
She changed her story 3 times and there was pre-meditation. Clearly self defence!
ZUBY: on Twitter - "We live in a world where if I know your opinion on Covid protocols, then I can predict your opinion on the Kyle Rittenhouse case, with a high degree of accuracy... And vice versa. Same goes for a bunch of other seemingly disconnected issues. Kind of scary."
Michael Malice on Twitter - "My three year old nephew came to me, tears in his eyes, and asked me, "Uncle Malice, does this mean that if I grab someone's gun or bash their head in with a skateboard for no reason, that they get to shoot me?" WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO TELL HIM? #LiterallyShaking #Kylerittenhouse"
Meme - "And for some reason when I pointed my pistol at him he shot me... *Greedo*"
Meme"A 18 Year old kid was acquitted of murder today because the evidence overwhelmingly pointed to self defense and all the prosecution had to go on was questionable footage and shady witnesses
our justice system is so broken
twitter"
Meme - Malynda Hale @MalyndaHale: "Please stop acting like you don't know what this is. He murdered two people. And will walk free. You've never in your life heard of a POC that killed two people and got to walk free. #WhitePrivilege"
*OJ Simpson*
Meme - "So you would have preferred to see a 17 year old kid beat to death in the street by a pedophile because you agree with the pedophile's political views?"
"Yes."
Pedro L. Gonzalez on Twitter - "Remember when the Republican National Convention opened with a prayer for Jacob Blake and not for Kyle Rittenhouse?"
Kyle Rittenhouse claims he supports Black Lives Matter in Tucker Carlson interview
Does this mean BLM supports violence?
Sole survivor of Kyle Rittenhouse is a career criminal and had charges dropped just before trial - "The jury heard nothing of his repeat firearms violations and the defense was not permitted to raise the fact that his Open Carry license had been suspended because of his criminal activity."
"If you are illegally carrying a firearm and commiting a crime you cannot claim self-defense. Therefore Gaige Grosskreutz has no valid claim of self-defense."
CNN's Cuomo: Rittenhouse Acquittal 'Justified' - We Should Want an Acquittal Under These Circumstances 'No Matter Who the Defendant Is' - "Chris Cuomo stated that while he disagrees with Wisconsin law, the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict was “justified by the law and the facts here,” and responded to arguments that a black person who did what Rittenhouse did would have been convicted by stating that the argument shouldn’t be, “he should have been found guilty because other people would wrongfully have been found guilty under this laws and facts, and you should say, we want this outcome no matter who the defendant is.”"
Lessons from Kenosha - "The only thing surprising about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict was how long it took the jury to reach it. As should be obvious to anyone who understands the law and had the merest familiarity with the facts of the case, Rittenhouse should never have been charged in the first place. The American Bar Association establishes criminal justice standards for lawyers, among which are those pertaining to prosecutors. Standard 3-4.3(a) of the Prosecution Function reads as follows: “A prosecutor should seek or file criminal charges only if the prosecutor reasonably believes that the charges are supported by probable cause, that admissible evidence will be sufficient to support conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the decision to charge is in the interests of justice.” Given this standard, and given the evidence they produced at trial, the Rittenhouse prosecutors either ignored the standard or proceeded to trial unfamiliar with the state of their evidence. In other words, they were either corrupt or incompetent, and a case can be made that they were both... Recall that the August 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisc., was found to be justified by both state and federal investigators, a conclusion that should have been obvious to anyone familiar with the simple facts of the case: Police responded to a 911 call regarding a domestic dispute involving Blake, for whom there was an active arrest warrant for sexual assault. Blake was armed with a knife, fought with police officers, and attempted to escape in a van he did not own, seated in which were his three children over whom he did not have legal custody. And yet, how many times was Blake referred to in the media as “another unarmed black man shot by police”? Praised by then-candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (among many others), Blake became another symbol of the supposedly racist criminal justice apparatus, joining Michael Brown, who in 2014 was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. Like the officer who shot Blake, the Ferguson officer was cleared of wrongdoing by exhaustive local and federal investigations, but the propriety of the shooting was obvious to any dispassionate observer within hours of the incident. Sadly, the news media are no longer staffed by people who see their mission as informing the public of verifiable facts. Instead, today’s newspaper writers and electronic media reporters are proud purveyors of “narratives,” the details of which are crafted in the tonier enclaves of New York City and Los Angeles. The employees of these outlets are ideologically aligned and virtually interchangeable with one another, reflecting the tastes and inclinations of those predominating in those same tony enclaves on the east and west coasts... both CNN and MSNBC aired the prosecution’s closing argument in the Rittenhouse trial but cut away from the defense’s argument? Put simply, they profit from riots, and in such selective, biased coverage they built up public expectations of a conviction even as they were losing confidence in its inevitability. For the media elites, there were gains to be had no matter the outcome of the trial. Had Rittenhouse been convicted, the narrative of his being a white supremacist and vigilante would have been advanced. With his acquittal a slightly different one comes forth, one in which Rittenhouse is still evil but has now profited from a justice system so corrupted as to fail to recognize it, with the added benefit of potential rioting... there was a need for lives and property to be defended in Kenosha. The Rittenhouse incident took place on the third night of rioting following Jacob Blake’s shooting, by which time it was clear local authorities were unable or unwilling to contain it. It is unsurprising that in the absence of legitimate authority others in the community would step forward and try to defend their homes and businesses from those who would destroy them in the name of some diseased sense of “social justice.” While it’s true that deadly force cannot be used to defend property, who would argue that the men with whom Rittenhouse joined should have been unarmed? The 2020 protests, endlessly and absurdly described in the media as “mostly peaceful,” were marked by many instances of assault and even murder. While the media busied themselves anointing George Floyd and Jacob Blake into their pantheon of secular saints, how much time did they devote to the death of David Dorn, the retired St. Louis police captain who, during that city’s rioting after Floyd’s death, responded to interrupt a burglary at a friend’s business and was shot to death for his trouble?"
Kyle Rittenhouse trial: MSNBC barred from court, producer followed jury bus - "police said they briefly detained a man who had followed the jury bus and may have tried to photograph jurors."
Antifa urges members to take up arms after Kyle Rittenhouse verdict
Meme - Mystery Grove Publishing Co.: "The FBI destroyed evidence in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. At this point the only way to solve the problem would be to disband the agency and bar former employees from serving in positions of public trust."
Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec: "EXCLUSIVE: FBI testified in private that there is version of the surveillance tape in HD that it did not provide the defense, per courtroom member. The defense had requested a copy of the HD tape. The FBI responded the HD tape no longer exists"
Kyle Rittenhouse Lawyers Request Mistrial, Citing Evidence Withheld - "the prosecution withheld video evidence “at the center of their case.”... The video provided to the defense was 3.6MB while the prosecution’s was 11.2MB – a dramatic change in quality and resolution. According to the defense, this video was not revealed “until after the trial concluded.”"
Kyle Rittenhouse's not guilty verdict gives protesters a new threat to worry about - "In this sobering moment for the American justice system, the Second Amendment has outweighed the First. Because of the unwillingness of politicians or the courts to deal with the proliferation of guns in America, despair, disdain and distrust continue to permeate our everyday lives. Vigilantism, not protesting, is the preferred form of dissent in America."
Leftist protesters are worried they can't kill those who stand in their way now
Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense Is a Threat to the Rule of Law - "The fundamental source of the carnage in Kenosha, and the anarchic legal paradoxes it exposed, are America’s superabundance of firearms, self-appointed guardians of public order, and the culture that produced them. When anyone could have a gun, or be about to reach for someone else’s, every victim is a potential killer, and every killer potentially innocent."
Amazing doublethink. Amazing how the violent riots and the leftist mob are not even mentioned; even in other countries self-defence is a valid justification for homicide
Kyle Rittenhouse Prosecutor Puts Finger on AR-15 in Courtroom - "Prosecutor Thomas Binger apparently placed his finger on the trigger of an AR-15 as he pointed the gun at the jury during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial."
WATCH – Prosecution: Rittenhouse 'Too Cowardly to Use His Own Fists' - "Several witnesses have testified that Rittenhouse fired his gun only after being pursued, with one prosecution witness admitting that Rittenhouse shot him only after he had pointed a gun at the minor."
John Cusack Accuses Billionaire of Defending Rittenhouse to Avoid Taxes: 'Scumbag Criminal Hoarder' - "Hollywood star John Cusack has lashed out at billionaire investor Bill Ackman for his comments in defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, bizarrely accusing Ackman of trying to stoke “racial division and hate” as some sort of tax avoidance scheme. In an angry tweet, John Cusack also called Bill Ackman a “scumbag criminal hoarder” who should “shut the fuck up.”... Cusack is the latest Hollywood celebrity to publicly dive into the Rittenhouse trial. Stars including Dave Bautista, George Takei, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Bravo’s Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi have taken swipes at Rittenhouse, with some accusing him of murder and others mocking his raw emotions while testifying about the traumatic experience."
Pollak: Kyle Rittenhouse Can Sue Jen Psaki for Defamation - "Newly-acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse could sue White House press secretary Jen Psaki for defamation, following her claim Tuesday afternoon that he was linked to the Proud Boys and her implication that he was a violent “white supremacist.” Psaki dodged a question about whether President Joe Biden’s would apologize for his claim in 2020 that Rittenhouse was a “white supremacist,” despite the complete lack of evidence, and recent suggestions of a looming defamation lawsuit... Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Psaki whether the president would apologize, given Rittenhouse’s acquittal, and the lack of any evidence that Rittenhouse was a white supremacist. Rather than answer the question, Psaki attempted to blame former President Donald Trump for the violence, claiming that he had “actively” supported white supremacists and militia groups during his presidency, and that the violence involving Rittenhouse was a consequence... even if it were to be shown that Rittenhouse later met members of the Proud Boys, that was not evidence that he had any connection with them at the time of the riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, several months earlier, and therefore it was inadmissible as evidence in the trial. In addition, Biden’s claim that Rittenhouse was a “white supremacist” came in September 2020 — months before that photograph was taken in January 2021... Unlike the president, Psaki does not enjoy immunity from civil torts while Biden is in office. Rittenhouse is a public figure, and would have to show that she acted with “actual malice,” which is defined as “reckless disregard for the truth.” That, in turn, usually requires plaintiffs to show that a defendant knew something was untrue, or could have known, but said it anyway."
Nick Sandmann to Kyle Rittenhouse: 'I Am Here for You' - "Sandmann recalled the horror of being a teenage kid being slapped with some of the worst labels imaginable by the likes of the establishment media, offering a kind of kinship with Kyle Rittenhouse because the “attacks on Kyle came from the national news media, just as they came for me.” Sandmann added that the media “came quickly, without hesitation, because Kyle was an easy target that they could paint in the way they wanted to.”"
WATCH: Kyle Rittenhouse Reveals He Intends To Sue LeBron James
Kyle Rittenhouse Announces New Project ‘To Hold The Media Accountable’ - "Kyle Rittenhouse joined “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Monday to announce his new initiative “The Media Accountability Project” — a group that will be used to hold “members of the media accountable” for lies and defamation similar to what Rittenhouse endured before, during, and after his homicide trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2021... “White supremacy – no one he shot was not white, everyone involved in the story was white, of course, but it’s white supremacy,” Carlson said sarcastically. “They’re lying to put the kid in prison for the rest of his life. What they just told you there are lies. Rittenhouse’s mother didn’t drive him across state lines with an AR-15; he borrowed the gun from a friend in Wisconsin. He lived about 15 minutes from Wisconsin. He worked in Wisconsin. So, the question is, after a full year of watching these people lie in order to imprison a kid for the rest of his, who’s going to hold the liars accountable?” Carlson pondered before introducing Rittenhouse... “I guess I have to ask kind of a dumb question, why isn’t there a group like this that exists already since the media so often not observers, they’re players, they’re participants in the news? Why hasn’t somebody done this before?”... “That’s a good question, Tucker, and I’m not sure, to be honest,” Rittenhouse answered. “But I don’t want to see anybody else have to deal with what I went through, so I want to hold them accountable for what they did to me, so I don’t want to see anybody else have to go through what I went through.”"
Meme - Kyle Rittenhouse: "No, it's not Lemon Heads.. it's the burning hole in my pocket thanks to a Joe Biden presidency.."
Mary Trump: "If I killed another human being--even if it was an accident or I believed it was in self-defense--my life would be destroyed. This sociopath just revealed himself to be the murderer most of us already know he is. Yet the Republican Party embraces him as a hero."
"Ya and when he shows emotion it's called "crocodile tears"? U can't win smh"
Meme - "'It's okay for men to cry too'
'He cried on the stand, take his freedom'
"The question the national media SHOULD be asking, but isn't... "Should someone this mentally unstable and immature be walking the streets of our country brandishing an AR-15?""
