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Kyle Rittenhouse Has Been Let Loose
Where does he go now?
My heart sank today when I learned the jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all five counts. Not a single punishment for a young white boy carrying an assault weapon to a BLM protest rally, where he ended up killing two men and wounding another.
The story is that the prosecution blew it, confusing the jury and putting doubt in their minds. We all saw the courtroom antics, perpetrated mainly by a questionable judge who refused to allow the word ‘victim’ but did allow ‘looters’ and ‘arsonists’, who stopped the prosecution from showing Kyle’s past history but did allow the past histories of the victims, who audaciously allowed the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse, to draw out pieces of paper selecting six of the final jurors — in front of the jurors.
The whole trial seemed comedic at times, not nearly as serious as two murders and a wounding would require. It ‘was, let’s face it, a travesty. But the jury gets to decide and all 12 of them acquitted Kyle on every count. One of them could have said no and stopped the action. All it took was one of them. A hung jury, and Kyle could have been retried. But he won this. He can’t be tried for this crime in a criminal court again.
I’m a mom and have been for so long my oldest is on Social Security. I think like a mom and I always…
