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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Not surprising, but still a travesty of justice. Charges are not adjudicated wholly. Rittenhouse gunned down two individuals who had a skateboard as their weapon, their words a s a weapon, and a sidearm in a defensive position (expected by the CCW) as a weapon. All three were treated the same because the judge was a ####ing idiot and instructed the jury to do so. When you have a jury of his peers - mostly morons - you are going to get the outcome expected. Make no mistake, jurors are selected because they are morons, not because they are educated and will examine the intricacies of the law. I've been dismissed from two jury selection processes the second I mentioned I had a law enforcement background and a terminal degree. They don't want experts judging these matters, they want morons being involved because they are have no idea and are extremely pliable. This is yet another example of the process being broken.
Frankly, Rittenhouse should be guilty of murder of two of the individuals. The person who uttered death threats is an automatic conviction in a vacuum. The individual with the skateboard (a non lethal weapon) is an automatic. Both of these should have been at worst homicide by negligent handling of dangerous weapon. The third, where the EMT had a weapon that could inflict deadly force, is the onw he should have skated on. The other two, he should have roasted on. No discussion.
This is yet another dark day for the United States. What should have been an automatic judicial decision has been dragged out into a political decision, driven by a judge who had very political motivations for the handling of his courtroom. The United States is a steaming pile of ####, and this outcome is further proof of that belief. Self defense is now a defense for anything. The precedent has been established.
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I really don't know the answer to this, but curious what if Rittenhouse doesn't have his gun? Is it his life that has now vanished and we are talking about charges against the victims of the gun violence? Maybe the violence doesn't occur because no gun is present or is he still beaten by the skateboards?
On a side note, how brave/stupid do you have to be to attack someone with a skateboard when they have a gun, I know, I would have been out of there or more likely not involved.
Rittenhouse put him self in a bad position and made some stupid decisions, their is no doubt about that, but I am not sure how many people would have not feared for their life being in his shoes. To be fair I am also not fully understanding how it all started.