• thagoat@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Kyle Rittenhouse took an assault rifle to a state he didn’t live in and shot 3 people, killing 2. He was acquitted on all counts. The is no way to measure the hypocrisy. It’s simply mind boggling.

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      3 months ago

      He was charged with (effectively) taking a sawn-off shotgun across state lines, which he didn’t do as it was a full-size rifle, and second degree murder, which requires homicide while committing another crime, but the other charge fell through, so there was no other crime. He probably would have been found guilty of something if he’d been charged with crimes he did rather than ones he didn’t, but the prosecutor fucked up, whether by incompetence or because they wanted to ensure he got off after nominally going through a trial so justice could be claimed to have been done.

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        3 months ago

        Kyle Rittenhouse is probably the most textbook definition of self defense there has been. There was some good lawyering to get around the age issue, but at the same time I’m not sure I want someone facing a felony because they aren’t 21. That doesn’t change anything on the ACAB front.

        Both things can be true. Bring guns and posters of him to protests. Make it difficult for anyone supporting ICE.