The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in a Kenosha, Wis., courtroom sparked plenty of opinions on Friday — divided in the same way the country is.
The baby-faced gunman, who killed two men and wounded a third at a Black Lives Matter protest last year was hailed as a hero in right-wing circles, while those on the left decried the jury’s decision.
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President Biden expressed anger, but at the same time, urged calm.
“While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken,” the president said in a statement.
He urged Americans to express themselves in a peaceful manner despite their thoughts on the jury’s call.’
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said the not-guilty verdict could have chilling consequences for peaceful protests.
““It seems to me that it’s open season on human rights demonstrators,” he said.
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams posted a statement on Twitter calling for “swift and righteous” measures to prevent future bloodbaths.
“This decision is an indictment of irresponsible laws that make our society far more violent and unsafe under the guise of personal freedom and so-called self-defense,” Adams wrote.
Rittenhouse’s defense team successfully argued their client had acted in self-defense when he killed two unarmed demonstrators, with whom he’d clashed.
“It also sends an extremely dangerous message to those in our country who seek agendas of anarchy — often born in prejudice and ignorance — to wreak havoc in their communities and potentially murder their neighbors,” Adams wrote.
New York U.S. Rep Jerry Nadler (D-Brooklyn) called the outcome of the trial a “heartbreaking verdict” and a “miscarriage of justice” that should be reviewed by the Department of Justice.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who’d earlier in the week attended the trial of three white men accused of killing unarmed Black man Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, called the Rittenhouse acquittal a reminder that these are “dark days” for the Black people whose suffering fuels the BLM movement.
The three people Rittenhouse shot were white, but they were attending a protest sparked by the shooting of Black man Jacob Blake by a Kenosha cop. Blake was left partially paralyzed, and protesters took to the streets.
“This verdict was not only outrageous and dangerous, it was also an obvious signal that encourages and notifies ‘vigilantes’ that they can continue to use violence to assert their power, and more importantly that they are above the criminal justice system when they do,” he said in a statement.
Eric Ward of the Southern Poverty Law Center summarized Rittenhouse’s situation as a systemic issue.
“Law enforcement unwillingness to uphold its mission of non-politicized policing led to a volatile environment where an armed vigilante was allowed to parade a weapon, engage racial justice protesters and depart the scene freely after having discharged a weapon that took the lives of two individuals and injured a third,” Ward wrote.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted, “It’s time to dismantle systemic racism & fundamentally transform our broken justice system.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom worried about the precedent the Rittenhouse case set.
“America today: you can break the law, carry around weapons built for a military, shoot and kill people, and get away with it,” the Democrat tweeted. “That’s the message we’ve just sent to armed vigilantes across the nation.”
Several conservative lawmakers viewed the situation differently, in some cases celebrating the verdict as a triumph for the right to bear arms and a vindication for the shooter. They also saw it as an opportunity to attack the mainstream media.
“Today, Kyle Rittenhouse has been found NOT GUILTY,” tweeted Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. “The media must apologize NOW!”
Noted gun enthusiast Lauren Boebert of Colorado saw the Wisconsin jury’s decision as a religious experience.
“Today is a great day for the Second Amendment and the right to self-defense,” she tweeted. “Kyle Rittenhouse is not guilty on all counts! Glory to God!”
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, who was censured by Congress this week for tweeting violent imagery about New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, welcomed Rittenhouse to move to his state, if the 18-year-old can get into Arizona State University. The teen enrolled in an online program through the school last month.
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Democrat Leaders Reject Rittenhouse Verdict;
* Puppet President Biden expressed anger
* The Rev. Jesse Jackson said the not-guilty verdict could have chilling consequences
* New York U.S. Rep Jerry Nadler (D-Brooklyn) called the outcome of the trial a “heartbreaking verdict” and a “miscarriage of justice” that should be reviewed by the Department of Justice.
* Al Sharpton called the Rittenhouse acquittal a reminder that these are “dark days” for the Black people whose suffering fuels the BLM movement.
* Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted, “It’s time to dismantle systemic racism & fundamentally transform our broken justice system.”
* “America today: you can break the law, carry around weapons built for a military, shoot and kill people, and get away with it,” the Democrat tweeted.
* California Gov. Gavin Newsom worried about the precedent the Rittenhouse case set.
Notice that all of these People who objected to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse are Democrats.
“Self-defense is NOT illegal”
Apparently there are many who would like it to be.
ALL of whom are Commucrat demons
“The Rev. Jesse Jackson said the not-guilty verdict could have chilling consequences” and a deep freeze to his rainbow coalition contributions.
“New York U.S. Rep Jerry Nadler (D-Brooklyn) called the outcome of the trial a “heartbreaking verdict” and a “miscarriage of justice” that should be reviewed by the Department of Justice.”,,,,So a Not Guilty verdict of an innocent white man is to American justice what cholesterol is to Nadler’s clogged heart? Who wants to go with that flow? How about we all embrace their Democrat family planned miscarriage of innocent babies and equate it to their ideas of miscarriages of Justice. Same results, the baby never gets born and the live adult just gets a firm dose of their social jeopardy where only the innocent get treated like they were the guilty up to and including death sentences for all who dare defy the Democrats.
“The Rev. Jesse Jackson said the not-guilty verdict could have chilling consequences for peaceful protests.”
I wonder if “mostly” peaceful protests and everyday – run of the mill – type riots will be tamped down as well?
What would happen if 1,000 mostly white people protested “peacefully” in Detroit like the crowd in Kenosha?
How convient for the likes of ” Indian Maiden, Elizabeth Warren , ” that she no
Longer needs the benifit of claiming ” A minority preference ” as she did in her eariler career to get a advantage not available to a White Race Individual, in their honest attempts to improve equal opporunities in their lives with those who claimed minority Statises to advance themselves over others.
Maybe NY Should have had a few hundred ARMED Natl guardsmen activated!! BUT then again, it is a LIBTARD ran hell hole…
All these also promote violence, except (of course) when it’s against them.
Has anyone wondered why the democrat president, Joe Biden seem to be In ” A State Of Confusion ” only have to find out who his and former presidents Advisors were. Helping Barack H. Obama and the President democrat Socialist party President, Joe Biden make their infamous decisions for example, Anita Dunn who once in utter Confusion, said, ” two of my Hero’s are Mao- Tse-Tung and Mother Theresa” With Confused democrat Presidential advisors like Anita Dunn wispering in Barack H. Obama’s and democrat ( In a Constant State of Utter Confusion,) Joe Biden, its no wonder they utter such statements and action, Any Questions, Fokes??
If what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, just why what happens in Kenosha causes heartburn in Brooklyn or Chicago? Proof positive of the organizational capabilities of Left-wing 5th columnists has arrived on a national scale. What do guys like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton or even bought and paid for Joe Biden have to stick their noses into parts of the country that concern them not, only to the point they can divide the nation and racially rack in more mind manipulated money in socialist redistribution of honest American wealth into their dishonest hands, with President Joe kickback throwing in his 2 cents in order to rake back in Thousands. Jackson, Sharpton and others, social anarchists themselves born of prejudice and mind violence they transform into street hatred, which has caused more of their own people to be killed by their own, need not attempt to bring the same mindset into our white communities to encourage WE THE PEOPLE to begin killing and incarcerating our own who only exercise their free 2nd amendment rights to defend, while legions of blacks on the offense, offending and killing their own by the bushelful. Where are the protests for THAT? If Blacks stopped claiming exclusive rights and privileges to kill their own, and began to discipline their own, and paid more attention to innocence in actions instead of violence in protests, they might just have a case and the moral ground to accuse others. This is not what MLK died for.
Because to the left, ANYTHING happening anywhere else, is cause for ‘destruction’.. ESPECIALLY those of a certain ethnicity.
Martin Luther King once Said , ” I live for the day When A Person Will be Judged by their Character And not by the Color of Their Skin … “, Obviviously Not yet ” Martin Luther King , Not yet .
HE would have been cancelled if he gave his speech now days.
“This is not what MLK died for.”
It may be why he had to die. Think of how many race hustlers were enabled by his murder. Without the groundwork in racism laid by them none of this would be happening.
The Left would be absolutely paralyzed, racially, if Martin Luther King were alive today.
Well, there are a bunch of conspiracy theories about his assassination…
The one thing the lying democrat race baiters will not tell you….is that the rioter’s were chasing Rittenhouse, why? Because Kyle dared to put out their fire…their felony of arson!
Couldn’t expect any other response from democrat-supremacists. Whoever made the sign racist killer apparently is only acting how the democrats told them to. Kyle shot white people and Kyle is white so how can that be racist. Oh so the blacks that kill blacks are racist also, right? And the blacks that defend blacks killing blacks surely must be racist too or maybe just plain dumb or democrat probably both.
Response to ” Timesup2022
It doesen’t Matter to Racist ” Black Lives Matter, ” that thoses killed were of the ” White Race, ” shot in self defence, ” by a Jury which heard the case, of A White Race youth who only shot after being Attacked .
Part 1—“While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken,” the president said in a statement.
You mean, like the people spoke in the November 2020 Presidential election, Joe??? What happened to the Left’s acceptance of that???
“It also sends an extremely dangerous message to those in our country who seek agendas of anarchy — often born in prejudice and ignorance — to wreak havoc in their communities and potentially murder their neighbors,” Adams wrote.
Mr Adams, do you realize that you just described Black Lives Matter—the violent protest group that is responsible for mayhem all over this country—the one that was causing unrest in Kenosha? Are you even aware of what you are saying? And your other Liberal comrades chime right in with you—you people are giving your blessings to the enemy whom you refuse to acknowledge as the enemy.
“This verdict was not only outrageous and dangerous, it was also an obvious signal that encourages and notifies ‘vigilantes’ that they can continue to use violence to assert their power, and more importantly that they are above the criminal justice system when they do,” he said in a statement.
As the Quote States, ” The Enemy of my Enemy Is my Friend . ” , And so we have to show some understanding of leftist democrat President’s Statements, after all Joe Biden is only following his orders.
They only care about the ‘will of the people’, WHEN IT VOTES THEIR way. Just like they only care about judges rulings, WHEN IT GOES their way.
Part 2—Again—this epitomizes Black Lives Matter to the core. I have never seen such bassackwards thinking in my life. You Liberals are beyond ludicrous—and quite obviously braindead.
“Law enforcement unwillingness to uphold its mission of non-politicized policing led to a volatile environment where an armed vigilante was allowed to parade a weapon, engage racial justice protesters and depart the scene freely after having discharged a weapon that took the lives of two individuals and injured a third,” Ward wrote.
NOW you want to fault the cops for NIT acting. You people railroad the cops on a daily basis—pushing for defunding and/or reforming. You can’t have it both ways. You either let the police do their jobs or you live with the consequences of not allowing them to.
The atrocity in this case is the warped and perverted mindset put on full display by Liberal politicians who have a history of doing so. In the spiritual realm, eyes have been blinded and hearts hardened and it is self-evident from the crass stupidity and ignorance emanating from Liberal sources. I hope the day comes when every one of these negative commenters finds themselves in exactly the same situation as Kyle Rittenhouse found himself in—it will be interesting to hear your commentary then.
What a disgrace the Left is in this country—what a sorry, inexcusable disgrace.
THING IS in NY, the cops for MONTHS have been ordered NOT TO INTERFERE. So how can it THEN BE their fault??
Democrat leftist T.V. Star, Bill Myers, realized how twisted the Socialist democrat party is and didn’t waste any time in telling the democrat elite what a asz they are making of themselves not telling the truth even when it smacks them in the face. !
I watched the video clips accompanying this article—if anybody can look at those and claim that these are peaceful protesters who have no ill intent—then you are as beyond hope as they are.
The left side of the Democrat party includes BLM and Antifa and is just another name for Communism.
Divide this Country and try and tear down the system….Communist playbook.
As Shackspeare was subpossed to have wrote, ” What’s in a name, A Rose by Any other Name Would Smell Just as Sweet. “
Re-education camps!! Since they want a socialist government give it to them. In China your whole family goes to the camp.
Thye literally have become the SS from nazi germany…
They’re doing pretty good at further dividing this country. The liberal democrats tend to appease the blacks hoping that the blacks will continue to vote for them. The longer they stay in office the more freebies they can provide. The “leaders” of this government are bending over backward kowtowing to the blm and antifa black criminal thugs. Talk about the tail wagging the dog. This division in our country is nothing but a time bomb waiting to explode into that second civil/race war that many have been expecting, and gearing up for for, since the disasters of the America hating obama.
Come On You can’t be saying Barack H. Obama, A Black Man, Was Elected President of All Races Two times here in Racist America??
NAME one thing Barrack did, to UNITE this nation..
OTHER than our hating everything he did that is.
Yep, a person who defends himself is a “white supremacist”. However when it comes to the real world, which we Conservatives are in, Antifa and black ***** matters are communists. How is that for the truth, Joe, Kamala, Jessie and Al???
Joe Biden IS A WHITE SUPREMIST!!!
I mean, he’s white, he’s president & he has a big lying mouth….
The hate-mongering, woke, and corrupt Democrat leaders and their disgusting propaganda mouthpieces in the leftist mainstream media have wasted no time condemning the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict in a desperate attempt to destroy public confidence in our system of justice and further inflame tensions between Black and White Americans. Divider-in-Chief Joe Biden and his gang of radical Democrat race-baiters are counting on their BLM and Antifa mobs to loot, burn, destroy, and inflict bodily injury on police and innocent citizens in order to punish our nation for a jury that had the courage to render a just verdict in spite of being aware of direct and implied threats of violence if Rittenhouse was not found guilty. Much of the personal injury and property destruction that we witness during the riots in the coming days and weeks can be directly attributed to the irresponsible, inflammatory statements our Democrat rulers have made about the Rittenhouse verdict.
The democrats have destroyed all sensibilities, solidarity and reasoning for their obsessive compulsive desire for power at any and all costs! We The People are their scapegoats now! RISE UP AND FIGHT TO THE DEATH!
“Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet–and this is its horror–it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. Evil comes from a failure to think.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
-Hannah Arendt-
We the People should now protest nation wide against Biden and his socialist party they will not take our country they will not take our freedom they will not take our family values we will destroy them
You can bet your last dollar, ANYONE WHO even tried to organize a mass protest against biden, would have the FBI RAIDING their homes in the middle of the night for “Domestic terrorism”…
What the left is REALLY upset about is the message that this verdict sends to the blm/antifa terrorists, and that is, we no longer must take their beatings, death threats, and arson. We are allowed to shoot them when they do such things, and that is a good message to send.
PITY those in NYC, didn’t take that message to heart.
It’sa pity that Americans don’t know this already. It’s old news Swordfish.
HEnce why many said, this was being pushed, to make folks TOO SCARED to ever defend themselves against the leftists anarchs… THAT THE COURT ruled correctly, to THEM, sends the wrong message, IN THEIR EYES…
We, the backbone of this great experiment, America, are winning the war. We, lovers of freedom and liberty, will always prevail.
Are we?? Are we really winning that war, when it seems THE LEFT IS THE ONE who has an army in the streets day after day?
Hey Biden, you racist, lying corrupt fool and complete incompetent idiot, shut up!
de.ocrat President, Joe Biden, is Just doing What He’s Told to do by his Handlers, Poor old Joe Biden, What else is he to do? But follow his Masters Instructions .
No one cares what you have to slobber and stutter about Biden, just look at your poll numbers.
Mosgopusa6, I didn’t mean to Infer that I felt Sorry For democrat President’s Statements however, these Statements aren’t democrat presidents Joe Biden’s but he Mouthed The Words Of His Handlers.
If it comes out of his mouth, he owns it. period!
He exterminated two white, Communist, agitators (one of whom was a pedophile, the other a rapist and both with long rap sheets) who attacked, assaulted and were trying to kill him and seriously damaged the gun hand of one who was attempting to shoot him IN DEMONSTRABLE, DOCUMENTED SELF DEFENSE. How is that racist?
“The Rev. Jesse Jackson said the not-guilty verdict could have chilling consequences for peaceful protests. ‘It seems to me that it’s open season on human rights demonstrators,’ he said.”
“There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — (and) then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
— Jesse Jackson, March 2012
Preach it “Reverend”!
Reverend?
1) If having a gun, at a riot, is bad, what about all the riot people firing their guns, there. Sounded like popcorn.
2) Every one of those, that were shot, were acting like a vigilante. Yet, libs are saying vigilantes are bad.
2) All those, on the right, want to have the left explain why smashing up property, burning down property, killing anyone that tries to stop them, is ok with the left.
4) during last summers riots, the left killed at least 40 people, that tried to stand up to them. Shot them, beat them to a pulp, killed them. Why were none of these rioters prosecuted?
We thank GOD, especially, and the very brave jury for see this and saying NOT guilty.
BECAUSE in those cities/states, the left OWNS THE AG’s office, so NO CHARGES WILL EVER get filed against those murderers.
How the hell do these LOW INFORMATION protestors believe that Kyle is a RACIST? His “victims” are WHITE!
The only “person of color” in this, was “jump kick man” (who, as the name implies, kicked Kyle in the head). HE, also has been in and out of prison for MOST (if not ALL) of his adult life!
THE VICTIM in this event, was Kyle Rittenhouse (both by his attackers AND by the District Attorney)!
I hope he SUES THE PANTS off EVERY “news” outlet (and talking head – media AND politician) who DEFAMED him (without the FACTS)!
Nick Sandmann successfully sued CNN and others who defamed HIM, and Kyle Rittenhouse has a MUCH STRONGER case against MORE people/entities!
Hell, there are politicians TODAY, who are STILL defaming him (even AFTER the jury found him to be NOT GUILTY on ALL charges)!
THEY belive, because they ARE low information (more like LOW IQ) voters.
Kyle for president when he’s 35 !!
I’m trying to figure out how a white guy who shoots two white guys who are attacking him and injures another white guy is somehow ‘racist’ and a ‘white supremacist’. I’m also trying to figure out the logic of these ‘antifa’ (does that actually stand for anti first amendment) ‘peaceful protests’ where they are burning and trashing their own cities that had NOTHING to do with the verdict.
Only in leftist logic can a white guy killing other white guys be racist and there is any sense in destroying cities hundreds if not thousands of miles away from the actual city that the event took place.
Tell this idiots we will not fear you we will fight for our country for our neighborhood so move over we are not afraid of your stupid movement
If those in ” Black Lives Matter, ” really were concerned about telling the truth they would accept the resuts of the jury , and not, as always playing ” The old Race Card. “
The rule of self defence, does not require an equal weapon to defend yourself
>> and notifies ‘vigilantes’ that they can continue to use violence to assert their power, and more importantly that they are above the criminal justice system when they do,” he said in a statement. <<
Sounds good to me.