George Floyd Protests

Halifax2TheMax · November 2021

mrussel1 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

That wasn't the only case where that happened. It's a perfect analogy. Courts have rules of procedures. Following rules, precedent and the like is part of the social compact.

I don't know the details of your argument, but considering the point of the trial was to determine if they were in fact, victims, it could be prejudicial. Do I think that it could make literally 12 people to go from not guilty to guilty? Seems like a real stretch

I could file a civil suit against Kenosha, claiming I was traumatized by the events, despite not having been there. I wouldn’t have standing as it should be. Comparing a trial with two deaths and a serious injury to one with a total lack of evidence, despite 60 attempts, is not a good analogy of a reason to be “outraged.” Apples and chicken.

Halifax2TheMax · November 2021

60 cases of BS made up out of whole cloth and/or election fraud committed by POOTWH’ers versus the results of the Rittenhouse trial with 2 deaths and a serious injury. Same-same.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/politics/fact-check-republicans-voter-fraud-kirk-hartle/index.html

mrussel1 · November 2021

Halifax2TheMax said:

60 cases of BS made up out of whole cloth and/or election fraud committed by POOTWH’ers versus the results of the Rittenhouse trial with 2 deaths and a serious injury. Same-same.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/politics/fact-check-republicans-voter-fraud-kirk-hartle/index.html

The criticism seems to be the rules of procedure from you. No one has articulated a specific, critical piece of evidence that was not allowed. You're talking about the prosecution not allowed to use what is likely a prejudicial statement, but one unlikely to swing 12 jurors.

This started with an AOC statement that had nothing to do with this case. And no one has grounded any of these complaints with actual arguments. Hence my comparison to the complaints by the right wing after the election.

cblock4life · November 2021

facepollution said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

Could the same argument be made for calling them 'victims', implying a pre-judgement on what happened?

I meant to tell you were right when you said he was just a kid. You’re also correct above by simply flipping it. When you’re right people won’t respond, besides that they like to argue amongst themselves…6 or 7 of them, maybe more and don’t really respond to or include anyone else….or if you really pissed them off at one time or another they ignore you altogether. Many years ago I said it’s like the lunch table at school.

Anyway facepollution I enjoyed our correspondence. Be safe, well and happy!

mace1229 · November 2021

mrussel1 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

That wasn't the only case where that happened. It's a perfect analogy. Courts have rules of procedures. Following rules, precedent and the like is part of the social compact.

I don't know the details of your argument, but considering the point of the trial was to determine if they were in fact, victims, it could be prejudicial. Do I think that it could make literally 12 people to go from not guilty to guilty? Seems like a real stretch

Not referring to them as victims is common in self defense cases and this judge has reported to have done it many times too. If the biggest complaint on the judge is that they couldn’t call them victims, then I’d say that’s proof there isn’t much to complain about.

HughFreakingDillon · November 2021

I've personally never heard or even considered that calling a victim of a shooting a "victim" could be prejudicial. I mean, someone can be a victim without there being someone at fault, can't there?

mace1229 · November 2021

HughFreakingDillon said:

I've personally never heard or even considered that calling a victim of a shooting a "victim" could be prejudicial. I mean, someone can be a victim without there being someone at fault, can't there?

I never thought about it before either and don’t think it’s going to make someone pick guilty or not guilty. But I’ve been hearing a lot of complaints about it and also heard several sources say it’s standard in self defense cases.

DarthMaeglin · November 2021

mace1229 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I've personally never heard or even considered that calling a victim of a shooting a "victim" could be prejudicial. I mean, someone can be a victim without there being someone at fault, can't there?

I never thought about it before either and don’t think it’s going to make someone pick guilty or not guilty. But I’ve been hearing a lot of complaints about it and also heard several sources say it’s standard in self defense cases.

We're all supposed to be careful to refer to someone as "accused" until verdict so the "victims" reference (or disallowing it) actually makes perfect sense. Even though I agree using the word victims wouldn't have swayed any jurors which can make it seem nonsensical, lol.

facepollution · November 2021

cblock4life said:

facepollution said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

Could the same argument be made for calling them 'victims', implying a pre-judgement on what happened?

I meant to tell you were right when you said he was just a kid. You’re also correct above by simply flipping it. When you’re right people won’t respond, besides that they like to argue amongst themselves…6 or 7 of them, maybe more and don’t really respond to or include anyone else….or if you really pissed them off at one time or another they ignore you altogether. Many years ago I said it’s like the lunch table at school.
Anyway facepollution I enjoyed our correspondence. Be safe, well and happy!

Thank you! I think it's important to be open to different ideas, though it's hard when an issue like this understandably sparks so much emotion. This is indeed an interesting place to navigate, some people seem to have very firm opinions, and I think I've learned over the years that productive conversation doesn't come from being antagonistic or insulting people. I just can't see anything useful and positive coming out of this situation if the right and left aren't prepared to have some kind of open dialogue.

tempo_n_groove · November 2021

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Blame and hold “responsible” everyone and everything but Kyle Rittenhouse. What a fucking country.

You're talking about two different things here. A jury acquitted under the standard of 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. Rittenhouse is responsible for putting himself in a stupid situation. The two 'victims' also acted like morons. The third man that was shot admitted he pointed his gun at Rittenhouse first. All of these people are stupid.

And if Rittenhouse had just stayed home or not gone to Kenosha with an AR15 strapped across his chest, it wouldn’t even be discussed. He’s the only dipshit of all the armed folks that night that pulled the trigger when “threatened.” It’s a stupid country we’re living in. FreeDUMB.

That’s actually wrong. Someone fired a shot just before him and may have been the catalyst for this whole event.

mrussel1 · November 2021

facepollution said:

cblock4life said:

facepollution said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

Could the same argument be made for calling them 'victims', implying a pre-judgement on what happened?

I meant to tell you were right when you said he was just a kid. You’re also correct above by simply flipping it. When you’re right people won’t respond, besides that they like to argue amongst themselves…6 or 7 of them, maybe more and don’t really respond to or include anyone else….or if you really pissed them off at one time or another they ignore you altogether. Many years ago I said it’s like the lunch table at school.
Anyway facepollution I enjoyed our correspondence. Be safe, well and happy!

Thank you! I think it's important to be open to different ideas, though it's hard when an issue like this understandably sparks so much emotion. This is indeed an interesting place to navigate, some people seem to have very firm opinions, and I think I've learned over the years that productive conversation doesn't come from being antagonistic or insulting people. I just can't see anything useful and positive coming out of this situation if the right and left aren't prepared to have some kind of open dialogue.

This is the problem. Both the far left and right are trying to leverage this tragedy to their own benefit.

Hobbes · November 2021

mrussel1 said:

facepollution said:

cblock4life said:

facepollution said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

Could the same argument be made for calling them 'victims', implying a pre-judgement on what happened?

I meant to tell you were right when you said he was just a kid. You’re also correct above by simply flipping it. When you’re right people won’t respond, besides that they like to argue amongst themselves…6 or 7 of them, maybe more and don’t really respond to or include anyone else….or if you really pissed them off at one time or another they ignore you altogether. Many years ago I said it’s like the lunch table at school.
Anyway facepollution I enjoyed our correspondence. Be safe, well and happy!

Thank you! I think it's important to be open to different ideas, though it's hard when an issue like this understandably sparks so much emotion. This is indeed an interesting place to navigate, some people seem to have very firm opinions, and I think I've learned over the years that productive conversation doesn't come from being antagonistic or insulting people. I just can't see anything useful and positive coming out of this situation if the right and left aren't prepared to have some kind of open dialogue.

This is the problem. Both the far left and right are trying to leverage this tragedy to their own benefit.

What exactly is "their own benefit" for the far left?

Halifax2TheMax · November 2021

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Blame and hold “responsible” everyone and everything but Kyle Rittenhouse. What a fucking country.

You're talking about two different things here. A jury acquitted under the standard of 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. Rittenhouse is responsible for putting himself in a stupid situation. The two 'victims' also acted like morons. The third man that was shot admitted he pointed his gun at Rittenhouse first. All of these people are stupid.

And if Rittenhouse had just stayed home or not gone to Kenosha with an AR15 strapped across his chest, it wouldn’t even be discussed. He’s the only dipshit of all the armed folks that night that pulled the trigger when “threatened.” It’s a stupid country we’re living in. FreeDUMB.

That’s actually wrong. Someone fired a shot just before him and may have been the catalyst for this whole event.

Are you sure it was a gunshot? Regardless, Rosenbaum was unarmed and Rittenhouse testified that he knew that he was. Rittenhouse claims he was cornered because someone possessed a handgun and was holding it by their side. Why would that make someone armed with an AR15 feel cornered by someone holding a gun, after spending most of the night amongst armed folks? That person didn’t raise his gun yet Rittenhouse turned and shot at Rosenbaum.

Its astonishing to me that you can shoot and kill 2 people and injure a third and suffer zero consequences as a result of your actions that contributed to the situation. Zero.

Halifax2TheMax · November 2021

mrussel1 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

60 cases of BS made up out of whole cloth and/or election fraud committed by POOTWH’ers versus the results of the Rittenhouse trial with 2 deaths and a serious injury. Same-same.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/politics/fact-check-republicans-voter-fraud-kirk-hartle/index.html

The criticism seems to be the rules of procedure from you. No one has articulated a specific, critical piece of evidence that was not allowed. You're talking about the prosecution not allowed to use what is likely a prejudicial statement, but one unlikely to swing 12 jurors.

This started with an AOC statement that had nothing to do with this case. And no one has grounded any of these complaints with actual arguments. Hence my comparison to the complaints by the right wing after the election.

AOC has nothing to do with it. You made a bad analogy. If the repub voter fraud cases had had ample evidence of fraud or tampering or vote changing, like they claimed, and the cases were still dismissed, then you’d have a point.

It doesn’t bother you that the judge thought enlargement of an iPhone screen altered the images of the video? This judge was anything but partial.

facepollution · November 2021

Hobbes said:

mrussel1 said:

facepollution said:

cblock4life said:

facepollution said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

Could the same argument be made for calling them 'victims', implying a pre-judgement on what happened?

I meant to tell you were right when you said he was just a kid. You’re also correct above by simply flipping it. When you’re right people won’t respond, besides that they like to argue amongst themselves…6 or 7 of them, maybe more and don’t really respond to or include anyone else….or if you really pissed them off at one time or another they ignore you altogether. Many years ago I said it’s like the lunch table at school.
Anyway facepollution I enjoyed our correspondence. Be safe, well and happy!

Thank you! I think it's important to be open to different ideas, though it's hard when an issue like this understandably sparks so much emotion. This is indeed an interesting place to navigate, some people seem to have very firm opinions, and I think I've learned over the years that productive conversation doesn't come from being antagonistic or insulting people. I just can't see anything useful and positive coming out of this situation if the right and left aren't prepared to have some kind of open dialogue.

This is the problem. Both the far left and right are trying to leverage this tragedy to their own benefit.

What exactly is "their own benefit" for the far left?

That's a really good question actually because it's hard to see what that benefit is. Having watched a lot of the trial, then reading what some of the left-wing media was saying, there was just so much misinformation, and I've seen opinions based on that misinformation spread all over social media. If the objective of the left is to push for better gun control and accountability, I don't think glossing over inconvenient facts has really helped the cause, it's just solidified the right's view that Rittenhouse is some kind of hero, allowing them to gloss over the absurdity of allowing people to roam the streets with guns. I understand the outrage, but anyone will lose their position of strength in an argument if they can't be truthful.

mickeyrat · November 2021

To Paramilitary Groups, Rittenhouse Verdict Means Vindication https://nyti.ms/3qYJqob

Hobbes · November 2021

facepollution said:

Hobbes said:

mrussel1 said:

facepollution said:

cblock4life said:

facepollution said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

Could the same argument be made for calling them 'victims', implying a pre-judgement on what happened?

I meant to tell you were right when you said he was just a kid. You’re also correct above by simply flipping it. When you’re right people won’t respond, besides that they like to argue amongst themselves…6 or 7 of them, maybe more and don’t really respond to or include anyone else….or if you really pissed them off at one time or another they ignore you altogether. Many years ago I said it’s like the lunch table at school.
Anyway facepollution I enjoyed our correspondence. Be safe, well and happy!

Thank you! I think it's important to be open to different ideas, though it's hard when an issue like this understandably sparks so much emotion. This is indeed an interesting place to navigate, some people seem to have very firm opinions, and I think I've learned over the years that productive conversation doesn't come from being antagonistic or insulting people. I just can't see anything useful and positive coming out of this situation if the right and left aren't prepared to have some kind of open dialogue.

This is the problem. Both the far left and right are trying to leverage this tragedy to their own benefit.

What exactly is "their own benefit" for the far left?

That's a really good question actually because it's hard to see what that benefit is. Having watched a lot of the trial, then reading what some of the left-wing media was saying, there was just so much misinformation, and I've seen opinions based on that misinformation spread all over social media. If the objective of the left is to push for better gun control and accountability, I don't think glossing over inconvenient facts has really helped the cause, it's just solidified the right's view that Rittenhouse is some kind of hero, allowing them to gloss over the absurdity of allowing people to roam the streets with guns. I understand the outrage, but anyone will lose their position of strength in an argument if they can't be truthful.

How about using this incident to highlight racial disparity within the criminal justice system?

mrussel1 · November 2021

Hobbes said:

facepollution said:

Hobbes said:

mrussel1 said:

facepollution said:

cblock4life said:

facepollution said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

Could the same argument be made for calling them 'victims', implying a pre-judgement on what happened?

I meant to tell you were right when you said he was just a kid. You’re also correct above by simply flipping it. When you’re right people won’t respond, besides that they like to argue amongst themselves…6 or 7 of them, maybe more and don’t really respond to or include anyone else….or if you really pissed them off at one time or another they ignore you altogether. Many years ago I said it’s like the lunch table at school.
Anyway facepollution I enjoyed our correspondence. Be safe, well and happy!

Thank you! I think it's important to be open to different ideas, though it's hard when an issue like this understandably sparks so much emotion. This is indeed an interesting place to navigate, some people seem to have very firm opinions, and I think I've learned over the years that productive conversation doesn't come from being antagonistic or insulting people. I just can't see anything useful and positive coming out of this situation if the right and left aren't prepared to have some kind of open dialogue.

This is the problem. Both the far left and right are trying to leverage this tragedy to their own benefit.

What exactly is "their own benefit" for the far left?

That's a really good question actually because it's hard to see what that benefit is. Having watched a lot of the trial, then reading what some of the left-wing media was saying, there was just so much misinformation, and I've seen opinions based on that misinformation spread all over social media. If the objective of the left is to push for better gun control and accountability, I don't think glossing over inconvenient facts has really helped the cause, it's just solidified the right's view that Rittenhouse is some kind of hero, allowing them to gloss over the absurdity of allowing people to roam the streets with guns. I understand the outrage, but anyone will lose their position of strength in an argument if they can't be truthful.

How about using this incident to highlight racial disparity within the criminal justice system?

Except it's not. Unless every white person that goes free is now an example of racial disparity, then the point holds no merit. Funny that someone brought up OJ, who went free. And posted the other Black guy who was acquitted on teh same day, using self defense.

Oh and this is exactly the answer to your question above. This is the left leveraging this tragedy to their own benefit... viewing every thing through the lens of race, no matter how great the pains are to get there.

facepollution · November 2021

Hobbes said:

facepollution said:

Hobbes said:

mrussel1 said:

facepollution said:

cblock4life said:

facepollution said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

mickeyrat said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I can't believe there are people on this site who appear to be defending this killer. Jeez Louise, where am I?

The question is do you believe your preferred media source or the 12 jurors who actually heard what happened?

or the 12 jurors who heard what the judge allowed them to hear , you mean.....

Always a conspiracy.

What evidence was not allowed in court that you think was so damning?

I'm not suggesting anything other than thats how trials work. Not having followed the day to day of the trial, what motions were brought, evidence presented etc, I wont comment on specifics. The judge determines what the jury hears. so in actual fact, its not always what "actually" happened.

Right, that's our legal system. Lots of Trumpers were furious because election cases never even were heard on the merits because the plaintiffs lacked standing. And what did we all say? Sorry idiots, that's the law. This is the same thing.

Because Tejas doesn’t have standing in Wisconsin or whatever state it was. Bad analogy because in addition to the lack of standing, evidence of fraud was never presented.

Do you believe the judge not allowing the prosecution to refer to the killed and injured as “victims” influenced the jury? Perhaps biased them to some degree?

Could the same argument be made for calling them 'victims', implying a pre-judgement on what happened?

I meant to tell you were right when you said he was just a kid. You’re also correct above by simply flipping it. When you’re right people won’t respond, besides that they like to argue amongst themselves…6 or 7 of them, maybe more and don’t really respond to or include anyone else….or if you really pissed them off at one time or another they ignore you altogether. Many years ago I said it’s like the lunch table at school.
Anyway facepollution I enjoyed our correspondence. Be safe, well and happy!

Thank you! I think it's important to be open to different ideas, though it's hard when an issue like this understandably sparks so much emotion. This is indeed an interesting place to navigate, some people seem to have very firm opinions, and I think I've learned over the years that productive conversation doesn't come from being antagonistic or insulting people. I just can't see anything useful and positive coming out of this situation if the right and left aren't prepared to have some kind of open dialogue.

This is the problem. Both the far left and right are trying to leverage this tragedy to their own benefit.

What exactly is "their own benefit" for the far left?

That's a really good question actually because it's hard to see what that benefit is. Having watched a lot of the trial, then reading what some of the left-wing media was saying, there was just so much misinformation, and I've seen opinions based on that misinformation spread all over social media. If the objective of the left is to push for better gun control and accountability, I don't think glossing over inconvenient facts has really helped the cause, it's just solidified the right's view that Rittenhouse is some kind of hero, allowing them to gloss over the absurdity of allowing people to roam the streets with guns. I understand the outrage, but anyone will lose their position of strength in an argument if they can't be truthful.

How about using this incident to highlight racial disparity within the criminal justice system?

I'm torn on this because I absolutely understand why people are doing that, and I'm sure there are countless examples of racial disparity in the system. However, I don't think that in itself changes the facts of this case, and morally it wouldn't be right, in my opinion, to ignore the facts to make a particular political statement. Kind of a two wrongs don't make a right situation. I don't think it's really reasonable either to expect jurors interpreting an existing justice system with all its rules and regulations to somehow fix the broken, underlying laws that allowed for a situation like this to occur in the first place.

This event was a perfect storm of bad decisions and law-making all coming together in a pressure cooker environment. You have lax laws in terms of gun control, lax policing, rioting and destruction of businesses and property, and a highly emotive central cause in terms of racial inequality. It would be easy to blame Kyle Rittenhouse for what happened, but there were many poor decisions made that night, by many people. Making Rittenhouse a scapegoat for the whole situation feels totally inadequate to me, and it's just pushing him and people who support him into the arms of the far right.

mrussel1 · November 2021

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

60 cases of BS made up out of whole cloth and/or election fraud committed by POOTWH’ers versus the results of the Rittenhouse trial with 2 deaths and a serious injury. Same-same.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/politics/fact-check-republicans-voter-fraud-kirk-hartle/index.html

The criticism seems to be the rules of procedure from you. No one has articulated a specific, critical piece of evidence that was not allowed. You're talking about the prosecution not allowed to use what is likely a prejudicial statement, but one unlikely to swing 12 jurors.

This started with an AOC statement that had nothing to do with this case. And no one has grounded any of these complaints with actual arguments. Hence my comparison to the complaints by the right wing after the election.

AOC has nothing to do with it. You made a bad analogy. If the repub voter fraud cases had had ample evidence of fraud or tampering or vote changing, like they claimed, and the cases were still dismissed, then you’d have a point.

It doesn’t bother you that the judge thought enlargement of an iPhone screen altered the images of the video? This judge was anything but partial.

AOC does, in this case, because Hobbes posted her tweet. That's how we went down this path to start.

And the analogy works, sorry you don't get it. The analogy is that neither the right (in the case of voter fraud) and the left (in this really long stretch about prejudicial statements) like it when the rules of procedure don't benefit them. That's the point.

and I appreciate that you are busy scanning the reddit and other boards looking for reasons why this case wasn't fair. So far was have the phrase 'victims' and now some Iphone images. If the judge is so impartial, then the prosecution should have moved for a mistrial.

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