Article 5S4TC Kyle Rittenhouse wasn’t convicted because, in America, white reasoning rules

Kyle Rittenhouse wasn’t convicted because, in America, white reasoning rules

by
Michael Harriot
from on (#5S4TC)

When white people find Black protesters scary, and white vigilantes heroic, where does that leave the legal concept of reasonable belief'?

Before sending a Kenosha, Wisconsin, jury to deliberate if Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer, Judge Bruce Schroeder informed Rittenhouse's hand-picked jury that his fate rests on the privilege" of self-defense.

We now know what the jury decided.

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