KR walking is going to set a really fucking dangerous precedent.
It's been a mixed bag, what with Derek Chauvin getting 22 years for Floyd's death. There doesn't seem to be any kind of firm precedent. It's just a question of who you get as a lawyer, how badly you perform on the witness stand, which media-backed partisan group gets behind your cause, and how zealous the local DA feels in a given moment.
It’s going to embolden the chuds to really go to protests armed looking for an excuse to kill.
Maybe. But I don't see them demonstrating exceptional shyness prior to this incident. Rittenhouse was as much the product of radicalization as the source of it. If he walks, all I'm really going to take from the story is that when you have a guy on the ground with a gun, don't stop hitting him until he stops moving.
It's been a mixed bag, what with Derek Chauvin getting 22 years for Floyd's death. There doesn't seem to be any kind of firm precedent. It's just a question of who you get as a lawyer, how badly you perform on the witness stand, which media-backed partisan group gets behind your cause, and how zealous the local DA feels in a given moment.
Maybe. But I don't see them demonstrating exceptional shyness prior to this incident. Rittenhouse was as much the product of radicalization as the source of it. If he walks, all I'm really going to take from the story is that when you have a guy on the ground with a gun, don't stop hitting him until he stops moving.
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