The Kyle Rittenhouse (KR) trial was a shameless exhibition of prosecutorial incompetence/ misconduct, judicial uncertainty, and ruined innocence.
Prosecuting attorney Thomas Binger drew a stinging rebuke from Judge Bruce Schroeder for violating long established court rules such as urging the jury to assume guilt when the accused chose to remain silent rather than undergo questioning. The 5th Amendment guarantees the right of an accused to remain silent with no assumption of guilt. Binger had already been warned about this and the judge brought him up short the second time he tried it.
Binger seemed completely unfamiliar with laws or practices relating to firearms. He brought a single charge of illegal possession based on the length of the AR15 that KR used that night. He (Binger) never even measured it. The law in question specified the short version of the AR15; Rittenhouse had carried the 4-inch-longer version which he was perfectly entitled to bear. Towards the end of the trial, Binger took the AR15 that was in evidence and aimed it in the direction of the jury with his finger on the trigger – two safety violations known to millions of gun enthusiasts and NRA members, but not to Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger.
Binger also withheld from the defense a better-quality video he had of a key sequence in the events in question. That is unethical. He seemed totally unaware that prosecution star witness Gaige Grosskreutz’ testimony would support KR’s innocence rather than his guilt. The many videos further supported Rittenhouse’s case of self-defense; the teenager was attacked by four adult males in rapid succession, all clearly out to hurt him and with death threats in the air, while surrounded by a hostile crowd cheering on the attackers. The videos made the self-defense case so obvious that one wonders why Rittenhouse was charged at all.
The judge mulled out loud over what to do at several junctures, giving the impression of not really knowing his job. There is also the question of why he did not sequester the jury to ensure that no enterprising news reporter could take their pictures or follow any of them home to discover where they lived. In his single ballsy act, Schroeder kicked MSNBC out of the courtroom for the remainder of the trial.
The Left did its best to intimidate the jury anyway, with noisy demonstrations outside the courtroom. Before the trial ever began – just a few days after the events that led to the trial – Joe Biden, with no proof, pronounced KR a militia member and white supremacist. That unlawful attempt to influence the decision added political heat to the trial. Fortunately none of it succeeded as the jury found Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges. In an interview with Tucker Carlson Rittenhouse would later observe that at the time he didn’t know what a militia was.
One gets the distinct impression that this sterling young man escaped jail time by the skin of his teeth. Yet nothing presented at trial showed Kyle Rittenhouse in a bad light. He had shown up to help clean up after the prior night’s destruction. He was videotaped helping scrub graffiti off buildings. Asked to help protect a car lot that night, he agreed and retrieved his AR15 from a friend who lived in Kenosha. He also took along his medical kit in case of need.
Thomas Binger and his sidekick need to be investigated with a view to disbarment.
These guys acted in complete disregard of judicial ethics and Rittenhouse’s rights and made every effort to sneak around the edges of the law to convict him. They behaved like acolytes of the notorious Mike Nifong of Duke lacrosse fame. It’s worth noting that Nifong was subsequently disbarred; the players sued for defamation and recovered $20m each from Duke University.
Kyle Rittenhouse came across as the kind of young man you want your daughter to marry. Tested under the most trying conditions, he passed with maximum marks. He defended himself with deadly force against deadly attacks without endangering onlookers or other innocents. There was no collateral damage. He did not engage in bombast or bravado, and as soon as could be managed he presented himself to law enforcement. Under similar circumstances I wonder if I could have kept my head the way this magnificent 17-year-old kid did.
We can take several things away from this trial: First, given the Jacob Blake shooting and now the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Wisconsinites are under the Leftist gun and had better wake up and get after their own self-defense; second, America is close to the totalitarian Left launching open war on us where we live. We cannot say there were no signs. A showdown is coming and we must be ready.
Third, and perhaps most important, is that openly televised trials such as that of Kyle Rittenhouse make it far more difficult for cheating lawyers to get away with it. Such fellows play to the crowd and don’t bother much with the facts or the rules of evidence. Criticism by other lawyers comes out on tv and in the papers, pointing out the law to us laymen. Unethical and incompetent lawyers get exposed and innocent people have a better chance of not getting crushed under the steamroller of crooked prosecutors.
The lying media can’t get away with its fabrications so easily when people can see the videos with their own eyes and don’t have to depend on reports by such unworthies as Joe Scarface and his posse of progressive harpies. These people have no allegiance to or interest in the truth or, for that matter, honesty; they have their side and that’s all they care about.
For these reasons, televised trials are one of the most powerful weapons we have to fight back with.
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Just glad to see a jury under immense pressure from many directions deliver a just verdict. They should be thanked for their courage to stand up to crooked prosecutors and media.
Real heroes, in my opinion.
This crooked prosecutor needs to be disbarred.
Yes, his several major ethics violations demand at least a suspension from the bar, and preferably full disbarment…
I’ll vote for that!
I myself thought the whole thing looked staged, from the street footage to the trial. Kyle produced no tears despite his “breakdown”.
I’m pretty good at spotting BS. I think Kyle is totally legit.
I have considered that, too. But I am with Abigail on this one. Looks legit to me.
If you want to open another can of worms: Is Kyle Rittenhouse Noah Pozner of Sandy Hook? (It’s a thing, I did not come up with it.)
The FBI just happened to have a drone watching the event. Kyle shouted “Friendly, Friendly Friendly” to identify himself clearly as a civillian with no military training. The 17-year-old-would-be-cop acted with tactical precision most 18 year olds lack after boot camp and their first school. The still unidentified shooter in the area fired several times just as pedo-vic reached Kyle. The riots were in response to the least questionable police shooting and every criminal arrived by bus. The highly publicized and talked about trial divided and distracted a dying nation just a little bit more on the cusp of the Maxwell trial. What could you possibly see in all this to make you think it’s a MKultra’esq event? Besides, why are you here reading this instead of huddled in your basement in fear of the new Varient!
We’ll Know Our Disinformation Program is Complete When Everything The American Public Believes is False. – William Casey, CIA Director 1981
I guess with your sterling qualities of observation it is good thing you were not on the jury.
End qualified immunity for law enforcement and prosecutors for misconduct in the performance of their duties .
Harford County Maryland is paying a pension to a prosecutor that did not disclose evidence proving a man innocent . After 27 years of a life sentence the truth floated up . The retired parasitic piece of shit commented OH WELL …
How about your victim you railroaded gets all your wealth and pension you get his room where you sent him to rot !
That’s Justice
Kyle’s chubby cheeks and youthful looks are deceiving. He had some serious training and knowledge about that weapon, and he also had the control and mental capacity to fire only at the very last minute, when no other option existed. Then, he placed as few bullets as possible so precisely that nobody other than the targets got hurt, after being struck multiple times in the head and with the adrenaline running through his system of fearing for his life and just having shot another person. He reacted and fixed incomplete chambering with the forward assist in a split second. I think he might have even aimed for the arm and not center mass with Mr. Bye-ceps, because there was another guy behind him. In a war situation, he would have received serious recognition and medals of honor. During interrogation, Kyle’s low opinion of Binger was not difficult to discern.
“Why were you running toward the fire? What was the urgency?”
Kyle: “Ugh, it was a FIRE!” (you dumbass)
ROL is dead in America. I’m pleased but surprised Rittenhouse was acquitted.
Only 2 options remain for Trad Americans. Jury nullification and our firearms.
FWIW, Judge Schroeder struck me as wishy washy and legally impotent.
We need to be self reliant. 1st world America is gone. Accept it.
What is ROL?
Rule of Law?
Yes. Rule of law. GNL: Thanks again for the video.
The judge was good in my view. He wanted the jury to make a decision to avoid the controversy of a directed finding. If they failed he had three legit reasons to throw out a conviction. A couple examples of misprision, coaching witnesses, false charges etc.
Sigh,again…….Kyle did noting wrong and he showed some folks born left handed/some are made that way.
What do you expect? Prosecutors are and have always been political animals. They are not and never have been your friend. Prosecutions like this are pure politics and in this particular instance, the left went too far, even for the nominally lefty normies to swallow. The fact these prosecutors were retards was a happy serendipity for Kyle. Don’t expect it to go down the same way next time. The next prosecution of a right/center right white dude will be much harsher. Just look at the insanity surrounding the Jan6 tards who all but dropped their trousers and lubed their rears up and begged the feds to come plow them. If you didn’t know protests and petitions don’t work, here’s your sign.
Kyle may have won, but we all lost. The fact Kyle was ever indicted is a symptom of how bad the system really is and how far we have fallen. In normal pre-crackup America, it never would have gotten this far.
Also, juries are chosen from the dumbest people they can find. First, they were too stupid to avoid jury duty. And second, they had to find people who at least claim to be too stupid to not already have formed an opinion. The fact they were so stupid, they sided with the defense when everyone knows guns are bad, whites are bad, and whites with guns shooting at radical communist protestors are really, unconscionably, terribly nazi-levels of bad only shows we need more propagandizing and sanctimonious lectures from hand-wringing leftists and late night comedians. You’re supposed to already know the guy they say is racist is always guilty.
We are still losing. Televising the courtroom is nothing new and will change nothing, especially since none of we viewers who watched the trial commentary were in the jury box.
Nothing will change. Nothing will get better. Next time, the state will win, no matter the cost.
Oh, and if you ever do get a summons for jury duty, consider brushing up on your knowledge of Jury Nullification. Kyle might need you to have his back.
As times get more “interesting”,perhaps pre trial juries must judge and sentence said prosecutors,jury nullification as it were.
Kyle Rittenhouse was never on trial.
The negation of the 2nd Amendment and the right to self defense against the mob was on trial.
He was just the avatar.
Thank God Almighty both were preserved.
But don’t think for one second the despicable evil left is done.
Unlike the limp dick “Republicans”, the left never stops throbbing.
Ammo up.
They hate us all and want us dead or enslaved to them.
Where and when will the next trial take place when an armed citizen is defending himself from the violence of the state? That’s the one that will matter.
And I bet this time, when the defense is against a needle in your child’s arm, the jury will decide differently.
C.A., it is time for all Republicans to join Bannon on the MAGA train or stay with disgraced losers like Cheney and Quislinger or Cassidy, Romney, Burr and Murkowski You want to fight with somebody who plans and organizes, it is MAGA, not the rump or remnant RINO/Bushie/Never Trump pedo project cruise ship people. F’ all the Kristols and Jonah Goldbergs.
Bannon is the Grey Champion.
Thank that judge for having the whole trial video’d for all to see…. Biggest move of the trial.