Strange how the scenario shifted using four white guys who just happened to show up - one barely legal who testified on-the-stand obviously well-coached to score some points that resulted in his acquittal on all the charges. . .
[Hands-Up Thumb-Gun Trigger-Pull © Sean Krajacic/Pool via REUTERS]
Verdict aside, the embarrassing Rittenhouse trial should be a warning
Zachary Leeman is the author of the novel Nigh and journalist who covers art and culture.
He has previously written for outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, and BizPac Review among others. Follow him on Twitter @WritingLeeman
"No matter how liberal activists try to paint it, the jury served justice in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial, though the state’s conduct and pundits’ painting of events made the entire ordeal a warning for where we are headed. The Rittenhouse trial, irrelevant of its outcome, was an embarrassment for the Wisconsin and US justice system as a whole. It’s telling that, while this case involved two dead victims, Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, and an 18-year-old on trial for his life, two other characters became lightning rods for controversy and attention. > Lead prosecutor Thomas Binger spent the better part of the Kenosha trial confusing Rittenhouse, Judge Bruce Schroeder, and anyone else that bothered listening to him. His arguments in the case fell apart quickly and faced heavy scrutiny from both the judge and activists, as almost nothing he said appeared to have any basis either in law or the Constitution While questioning Rittenhouse on the stand, Binger pulled an homage to former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly post-Columbine shooting, and went on a tear against video games, attempting to paint Rittenhouse as some first-person-shooter-obsessed incel, looking for death in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August of 2020 during a Black Lives Matter protest that had already turned violent. The video-game argument didn’t work, so Binger then employed two very questionable tactics: First, he tried arguing that, because Rittenhouse had an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in his possession, he arrived in Kenosha with the intent of causing harm, which is something the young man has denied, saying he was there with a medical kit to assist people who might need help. Binger attempted to further this argument in his closing remarks by claiming that “you lose the right to self-defense when you’re the one who brought the gun.” Shocked Second Amendment activists rightly pointed out that this thinking completely undermined the very idea of self-defense. _____________________________________________________________________________________The only way such a theory could have held any weight was if Rittenhouse had been the primary aggressor. But witness statements have backed up his recollection of events: a videographer testified that the defendant was attacked first, while Gaige Grosskreutz – one of the three who was shot, though he survived – admitted to pointing a gun at Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse pointed his gun at him. Prior to Rittenhouse firing, he was being chased by Grosskeutz, Huber, and Rosenbaum, who were attempting to get his weapon. [...] Binger’s arguments had no legal basis because they were merely half-hearted attempts to try to bring sense to the Twitter debates that filtered Rittenhouse’s actions and somehow determined he was a racist, intent on hunting down righteous liberal protesters. _____________________________________________________________________________________> Judge Bruce Schroeder was also the subject of heavy criticism during the trial, though the basis for it seemed to be similar to that received by Rittenhouse, with critics mostly spider-webbing negative theories derived from nonsense such as the ringtone to his phone being Lee Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA’.
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