Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty

As major US cities go Portland Oregon is on the small side.

It's the 25th ranked city and 25th ranked metro area by population.

Also it's very liberal leaning, So no one should be surprised that that was the place a "riot" would occur.

The person you were responding to said that Portland was the largest and most populous city in the state of Oregon, which is true. The size of it by US standards more broadly probably matters as much to the residents of Portland as it would matter to me if a marauding mob of shitheads were running through my town destroying businesses, setting fires and attacking people. Which is to say not at all.

What are those quotes around riot for? Are you asserting that the riot wasn't a riot?

The ex girlfriend of one of his assailants slipped Kyle her number at the end of the trial.

Love finds a way.

I'm not sure why anyone would wish a guilty verdict on the kid, take the politics aside for a moment, a star witness the only dude that was actually there and got shot was caught in lies, and effectively explained how Kyle acted in self defense. There is no recovering from that.

What did you expect? That everyone will ignore witness testimony and evidence, convict the kid because he's a white male, or plays video games? If anyone is looking for someone to blame, blame the prosecutors. They made a right mockery of the whole trial.

At this point, you just have to applaud the dedication to the bit.

It's scandalous because the prosecution called him as their witness despite clear video evidence showing what actually happened.

No he is not his demented tweet last night about the verdict looked like he was trying to cause unrest and question the validity of the outcome of the court case that man is a dangerous fool, the sooner he is replaced the better!

Btw the main reason there were no riots last night was the soy boy Antifa/BLM boys don't like to riot in the cold weather they probably preferred to stay home and smoke weed.

I was fairly impressed that Rittenhouse took the stand, he is still a very young man, not particularly educated and I doubt is used to intense critical argument. The prosecutor badgered him in cross examination, pedantically repeating questions when he didn't like the answers, his line of questioning was often tangential to the substance of the case, desperately trying to get him to say he intended to kill the assailants who attacked him. Suggesting ad naseum, that the first assailant for example had put his hands up and slowed down his approach and that Rittenhouse basically didn't run away fast enough and intended to kill him. It would have been funny if rittenhouse's life wasn't on the line. But his life was on the line and he held his composure. I found it uncomfortable because it made me wonder, imagine this kid was a little bit less intelligent or had a little less emotional control and he did slip up and said "of course I wanted to kill him, I was panicking and he was chasing me", is that it then, does that make one guilty based on ones ability or intelligence or composure? And how is that relevant compared to the evidence of the actions that took place? How is it relevant what he thought or felt? It was very frustrating, fair play to him for putting himself through that, the pressure must have been insane.