Members of the liberal media were unable to comprehend the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who a jury found was not guilty of all five charges against him.
“In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619,” New York Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones reacted.
KYLE RITTENHOUSE FOUND NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN KENOSHA TRIAL
CNN contributor Ana Navarro felt compelled to tie the Rittenhouse verdict to unrelated cases as a “stark reminder of inequity.”
“Rittenhouse killed two men w/an AR-15. Found not guilty. Tamir Rice was shot by police for having a toy gun. Christopher Belter raped 4 girls. Given no jail time. Two men were exonerated after serving decades for [Malcolm] X murder they did not commit,” Navarro tweeted.
Kyle Rittenhouse hugs one of his attorneys, Corey Chirafisi, after he is found not guilty on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The jury came back with its verdict afer close to 3 1/2 days of deliberation. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool)
(Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool)
Washington Post correspondent Philip Bump provided “analysis” in a piece titled, “Rittenhouse was acquitted, not validated.”
“Juries are part of the American system of justice, not its entirety…. Arriving at justice depends on the whole system, the prosecutors, the judge, the defense,” Bump wrote. “We should remember, then, that acquittals are not moral judgments. If a jury says that the government failed to meet its burden of proof, this is an assessment of the government as much as the accused.”
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He later wrote, “Rittenhouse killed two people and the state was unable to convince a jury that he bore criminal responsibility for doing so… The problem here is not the jury. The problem is one that predates…
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