{"id":397449,"date":"2021-11-19T21:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=278748"},"modified":"2021-11-19T21:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:53:03","slug":"saddening-infuriating-and-utterly-unsurprising-kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/19\/saddening-infuriating-and-utterly-unsurprising-kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saddening, infuriating, and utterly unsurprising\u2019: Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This story originally appeared in Common Dreams<\/a> on Nov. 19, 2021. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Racial justice advocates reacted with outrage and a complete lack of surprise Friday after a Kenosha, Wisconsin jury found Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty <\/a>on all charges for killing two men and wounding a third during a 2020 protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake, with some observers asserting that the verdict encourages vigilante attacks on protestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Judge Bruce Schroeder presented a case study in how the judiciary upholds systems of white supremacy. And he’s no anomaly.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rejecting the prosecution’s assertion that “you cannot claim self-defense against a danger you create,” the nearly all-white jury acquitted Rittenhouse, who was 17 years old when he shot and killed Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle on August 25, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are heartbroken and angry that Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted in his criminal trial for the murder of our son Anthony Huber,” the slain 26-year-old’s family said<\/a> in a statement. “There was no justice today for Anthony, or for Mr. Rittenhouse’s other victims.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today’s verdict means there is no accountability for the person who murdered our son,” the statement continued. “It sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I knew it. Kyle Rittenhouse is proof that white people can still break the law, carry illegal weapons, shoot and kill people, and get away with it in America by shedding tears and claiming self-defense.<\/p>— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>