Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

[Dill]

(11-18-2021, 06:09 PM)Sled21 Wrote: You realize Biden authored the 1991 Crime Bill, right?

I appreciate your response, Sled.  But did you mean the 1994 crime bill? 

If so, I'm not clear how this relates to what we were discussing.  Would you be arguing that it rolled back civil rights gains? Possibly, but Biden was "leading from behind" on that bill, with 58% support among Black voters. What was Trump's view on crime and the death penalty during this period? We get some indication of that as he continued advocating the death penalty for the Central Park five, even AFTER their coerced convictions were vacated. Traditionally, few black voters have trusted white courts to sort out the death penalty fairly, so none that I know of backed Trump on this. He didn't care. 

You were comparing Biden and Trump in terms of "racist" behaviors. Trump will always lose that fight. 

(11-18-2021, 06:09 PM)Sled21 Wrote: And as to your second paragraph, that was my point. When over 1000 African-American Protestors came to Louisville with guns, nobody bothered them until 3 of them were shot, and at that point they were given medical treatment and yes, water was handed out to them. (Wearing all black clothing in Louisville on a 95 degree day with full sun and high humidity wasn't the smartest thing their leader ever ordered) 

Were the police showing their "appreciation" for support when they handed out that water? 

I get you point, I think. In the Louisville case black men were allowed to carry guns, and weren't arrested. I wonder if there are some differences in circumstances, though. 

I'm not sure that THOUSANDS of armed men, peacefully marching in broad daylight, tells us how police in Kenosha would have reacted to an open carrying black man from another community, operating singly, at night after curfew, during a riot involving arson, assaults, and shooting.