(11-20-2021, 12:49 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(11-19-2021, 08:50 PM)mikesez Wrote: You can only claim self defense if you are not committing a crime, that is, if you have a legal right to be where you are doing what you're doing.
Which is to say, all of the charges hinged on the weapons charge.  If the prosecution could have proven that he was too young to be carrying that weapon in that place, they could have proven all the other charges. 
With the weapons charge thrown out, it was not possible to convict him of anything.

You still don't feel even a little duped by this narrative? Even with jurors feeling threatened, there was still evidence enough to convince a jury to find him not guilty. 

Instead of the media focusing on the wrongness of the rioters, they trot out a criminal who admits that he was pointing a gun at the defendant before he pulls the trigger. The prosecution waived charges against actual criminals to get them to testify against Rittenhouse. Thugs were out destroying people's property and livelihoods, and they focus on a guy trying to protect a neighborhood from vandalism. The president called him a racist for defending his life. I could keep going, but the bottom line is that sanity has been flipped upside down and your so quick to swallow every lie. None of this would have happened 10 years ago. You're smart enough to know that's true, but dumb enough to ignore that fact.