Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

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(10-29-2021, 01:03 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: I'm curious and this may have already been asked or pointed out (if so I missed it), but has anyone determined where the three men were from that attacked Rittenhouse? Not that it matters but for the sake of this tidbit I am curious.

I haven't no. Anyone else? It's possible they came from outside, many do during these events. But note, I haven't argued they shouldn't have been killed. They were somewhere they shouldn't have been either, especially if they were rioting and everything. What I am arguing and the feeling I get when listening to Rittenhouse supporters is that he is the "victim", and I don't agree. I think we have to face the consequences of our actions and rather we like it or not this was a choice by all involved and whatever came from it came from it. But Rittenhouse should face consequences for his actions, and the lesson here (that you can kill and claim self defense for being in some mess you had a choice to be in just seems dangerous to me. But I bring up race a lot in this thread not to race bait but because I genuinely don't believe it would be the same if flipped. So I worry this is less about law and more about privilege. And that is "interesting" to me because that is so clear to minorities, but can't be seen or understood by others.

So stand your ground laws and self defense laws really don't apply to everyone. And that is kinda the ugly underbelly of all of this. If laws applied to all, you wouldn't see such emotions when these things come up.