Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty

Seems like the foreman is a woke “I want to speak to the manager” type who made her mind up a year ago based on CNN’s trash coverage and is now frustrated that people won’t just listen to her and send a kid to prison for life. So she’s going home with her little bit of paper to try and come up with an argument why clear self defence isn’t.

IMO the standard should be 10/12 to avoid letting ideologues trash cases like this.

That one woman is probably getting on their nerves trying to convince them not to believe their lying eyes.

Hopefully there are enough principled people on the jury who will resist her ****. It only takes one really.

The defence should be shoring up their mistrial filing in the meantime and they should stick with prejudice.

We don't even know if he is a conservative, or indeed how conservative.

Could be just a normal everyday kid who didn't want his father's town to be burned to the ground by scumbags pedophiles and racists like Rosenbum etc.

It's all assumptions. That's what the media have been filling people's heads with to build their narrative.

You seem to have been reeled in by it, hook line and sinker.

Hopefully we’ll have a result tomorrow.

Where in my post did I say he was a Conservative himself?

Well the go to program for playing the file/video would be Windows media player but this file was in a a format that it didn't work on that program so they used VlC player.

From the video posted here it seems the given to defence was compressed and in a format that didn't play on Windows media player the default on most laptops.

So they had to download VlC player to play the video.

That is all messed up. IMO

It's not the FBI drone footage.

This is footage that was apparently dropped off a few days ago by an anonymous source who didn't want to be named. But the (original) video had a strange aspect ratio, and has since been shown to be a video that was aired on Fox News last year, and the aspect ratio is strange because the top part of the video that includes the Fox logo has been cropped.

I don't honestly know how they were able to get the video admitted, considering the time that's lapsed, the anonymous, unknown source, and how easy it is to manipulate and edit video footage to add, remove or change details, but here we are.

That video was not the one that was sent to the defense, anyway. The video the defense was sent was a much lower resolution and had been renamed.

Kraus (the co-prosecutor) had his laptop on screen in the trial, and he has two video editing programs on his computer that would generally only be used by professionals working regularly with video editing - coincidentally they just happen to be one that is used for cropping video and one that is used for reformatting at different resolutions.

IF the judge decides to carry out his stated intention to take testimony under oath from the prosecution about how the "mix up" occurred, and take Kraus' laptop into evidence so that an expert can look through the log files of those video editing programs, Kraus might find himself in some seriously deep **** of his own. Tampering with evidence in a capital murder case is a very serious crime.

New video and photos have also come to light from earlier in the day of the shootings, clearly showing Rittenhouse and his friend with the owners of Car Source, who testified under oath as prosecution witnesses that they didn't know Rittenhouse of his friend and had never spoken to them or been aware that they were intending to guard the place. The prosecutors apparently had access to these photos and videos, and therefore may be guilty of suborning perjury. The penalty for that is disbarment and/or suspension of their license.

Another Germanic surname!

wow, the German's have really been patient and played the long game, before finally deciding to take over America! 😀

In fairness, although this must be horrible for a 17 year old kid to go through, these things can be the making of someone when/if they come out the other side. Rittenhouse did appear to have some aspirations to serve his community in some civic capacity before all of this crap happened. Hopefully he doesn't get used by people with shady ulterior motives, which is always possible with an impressionable naive teenager. (particularly in the dirty world of politics)

If the kid has any sense, he'd be better off staying well away from that sleazeball.

Though I imagine Gaetz is only interested in him as he's proven himself as a minor who crosses state lines.

In terms of gun control objectives, what would be the point of putting this guy in prison?

You are making a martyr out of someone, who your opponents can very clearly show was using his weapon in self defense. And is a clean-cut kid with no criminal record. It would be counter productive.

You're actually strengthening the case of the pro-gun lobbyists. Especially considering the ridiculous arguments made by the prosecution, suggesting Rittenhouse should have "just taken a beating". No self respecting pro-gun American is ever going to buy into that sort of rhetoric. The whole point of being pro 2nd amendment, is that you are self-reliant and can take measures to protect yourself instead of just rolling over and allowing yourself to be an easy victim.

"Just take a beating" is one of the worst quotes to come out of this trial. And many American's will see that as being the antithesis of what it means to be an American.

Let your city burn, and just take a beating! (and while you're at it, bow and take a knee as well) lol

If you really want to make an example out of someone, with this objective in mind, the guy you want to go after would be someone like Gaige Grosskreutz. A man with a criminal record (domestic abuse, burglary and more), who was running around with a gun that he wasn't legally entitled to be carrying on the night.

Excuse the pun, but the left in America are notorious for shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to these issues. Even pushing for such a high profile trial of Rittenhouse, is a perfect opportunity for their opponents to shine a nice big bright light on some of the horrible characters that make up these BLM type movements - who would otherwise get to hide like the cowards they are in a big crowd.

You're probably right, the republicans will be laughing all the way to the bank with this circus. It's a massive own goal from the left.