The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[open face surgery]

Watch what happens though when the hysterics get wind of it.

Just send him back out so.

[Blackout]

I wonder how much longer we will have courts delivering verdicts based on evidence and not social media outrage.  Even still this guys life is now over.

[Mower Liberation Front]

I wonder how much longer we will have courts delivering verdicts based on evidence and not social media outrage.  Even still this guys life is now over.

Wouldn't want to be the jurors either. Wonder how long before they get doxxed - I see MSNBC tried to do that already.

[mickO)))]

I wonder how much longer we will have courts delivering verdicts based on evidence and not social media outrage.  Even still this guys life is now over.

Wouldn't want to be the jurors either. Wonder how long before they get doxxed - I see MSNBC tried to do that already.

Apparently people in the court were sneaking pictures of the jury all throughout the trail to use when he was found not guilty and NBC were banned from the court because a journalist working for them tried to follow the bus carrying the jury on Wednesday to get pictures them.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Rittenhouse cleared, which is the only just outcome.

Your knowledge of the US has to be completely fucked up (which it is) if you think a black or latino guy would have gotten out of an identical situation alive or without spending his life in prison.

Kyle, no doubt, hasn't got 100's of other charges stacked up against him...
Shut it soy-boi... and just enjoy the righteous scales of justice in action.... 

[Kurt Cocaine]

Btw, isn't Kyle Hispanic..?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Great wide ranging perspective piece on the whole thing here, not claiming Rittenhouse "should" have been found guilty:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/rittenhouse-trial-verdict-not-guilty/620737/

[son of the Morrigan]

There's far too much talk on this forum about American politics, the American judiciary, American news and general American bullshite.
Is our own cesspit of a political system, our own corrupt judiciary  or our own propagandist media not deserving of a bit of attention at all?
I know I certainly don't give a fuck about some snot-nosed little American prick, but perhaps I'm in the minority.

[Bigmac]

Rittenhouse cleared, which is the only just outcome.

Your knowledge of the US has to be completely fucked up (which it is) if you think a black or latino guy would have gotten out of an identical situation alive or without spending his life in prison.

If he was black and got attacked by 3 white guys like Kyle did, it would have looked so much like a lynching it'd be interesting to see if he'd ever even go to trial.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

A situation where 3 white guys attack a black guy? Hmm, now, that rings a bell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ahmaud_Arbery

[Bigmac]

Stay on topic.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I stayed exactly where you brought the topic; three white guys essentially lynching a black guy.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Anyway, I stand by what I said a year ago, but it's still very clear that Rittenhouse's experience through all of this, the night of included, is very much a white American boy's experience.

It was a sad story from the start; a brainwashed kid, the manner of whose presence was illegal (armed minor) but seemingly encouraged, aided and abeted by adults, caught up in a situation that was simply beyond him. All this video does is make out that the brainwashing he was subject to is some kind of humanity saving "truth". I wouldn't want him to have the book thrown at him, but several adults need to be beaten round the head with some books and wisdom over it.

[Blackout]

There's far too much talk on this forum about American politics, the American judiciary, American news and general American bullshite.
Is our own cesspit of a political system, our own corrupt judiciary  or our own propagandist media not deserving of a bit of attention at all?
I know I certainly don't give a fuck about some snot-nosed little American prick, but perhaps I'm in the minority.

No matter where the trial, you should be worried about courts in any jurisdiction potentially being influenced heavily by public opinion rather than the facts.  These types of cases happen in our own country.

[Caomhaoin]

Rittenhouse cleared, which is the only just outcome.

Your knowledge of the US has to be completely fucked up (which it is) if you think a black or latino guy would have gotten out of an identical situation alive or without spending his life in prison.

Oh please. The unthinking response. What the lad looks like is completely meaningless to me.

Nothing else but a hypothetical 'yeah but...' scenario (in which I offered no opinion on, but you are implying that I did).

And of course, being an ideologue, and non-thinking partisan on the issue, you bring race into a case which involved a load of white people.

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE, wha?