If Rittenhouse was black...

[bigtree]

Roslynne Levine @roz_levine 27m
Judge just dismissed the 6th count in the Rittenhouse trial because of a technicality. The statute says minors can't possess a handgun or short barreled rifle. Rittenhouse was carrying a gun with a barrel over 16 inches, so 'technically' it wasn't illegal.

Erin Astros Fan @ejones51 26m
If Kyle was black, his Skittles would be considered a dangerous weapon

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Cylon Sandhill @ShotgunWillard 28m
The law in Wisconin allows minors to carry a rifle or shotgun “while hunting,” and the judge determined that the barrel length was sufficient to qualify as a hunting rifle.

Interesting admission that Rittenhouse was “hunting,” which is decidedly different than self-defense

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Undivided @2016Resister 16m
The gun barrel was legal for hunting which begs the question, what was Kyle Rittenhouse hunting that night in Kenosha when he killed 2 and injured one?

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/11/15/closing-arguments-kyle-rittenhouse-gun-charge-dismissed/

[FarPoint]

1. Heck....

if he was black with what he did....cops would of shot him....

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. ☝️THIS☝️

[calimary]

24. Sad but true. Sad and true.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

3. If he was black he would be dead.

They would have shot him on the spot no questions.

[world wide wally]

4. I don't think there is an open hunting season in July in Wi.

[DeeNice]

5. Headline: Active Shooter Killed by Police (or Good Guy with Gun) nt

[brush]

6. If Rittenhouse was black there's a high probability that...

he would've been shot that night when he approached the police in their cruisers, visibly armed with an assault weapon after the killings/shooting, he had just committed.

Let's not kid ourselves.

[vanlassie]

7. Are there any people of color on that jury?

[Ray Bruns]

9. I believe there is one. Totally legit.

[maxsolomon]

14. You are thinking of the Ahmaud Arbery jury.

there is one.

[Doodley]

8. If he were black (and wasn't shot by cops) he wouldn't have a right-wing fan club and walk free.

[Devil Child]

10. If Rittenhouse was black...

How would DU react?

[Caliman73]

15. Likely the same as now.

No reason for anyone White or Black to go from out of state, to a protest, armed with an AR-15. The skin color only makes a difference to law enforcement and how right wingers react, not to people on DU many of whom dislike firearms and would see openly carrying an AR-15 as an unnecessary provocation.

There has not been a lot of sympathy on DU for the protester who was also armed with a handgun that got shot but not killed.

[bigtree]

16. for that you'd need to conjur, from your imagination, a black individual stalking a protest rally

...with a rifle, killing and maiming participants.

How do you think DU would react to that hypothetical, never happened, tragedy?

[Devil Child]

20. Keep going, so far it is enjoyable reading

It is all speculative fiction and fantasy world-building so pretty much any answer is valid for a hypothetical what-if to me.

Black individual stalking a protest rally with a rifle, killing and maiming participants

or

Bipoc teen defends self against three white men including one who was aggressively shouting "kill me N-Word" at the defendant earlier in the evening.

Quite simply, if Rittenhouse was black DU would most likely have less hostility towards him and more inclined to say "lets see how the trial goes."

Source: My opinion.

[bigtree]

23. good luck with that

[maxsolomon]

17. You tell me. You're DU too.

How did DU react to Michael Reinoehl's execution by the US Marshals? Pretty much didn't give a fuck.

He's not black, but he was Antifa.

[uponit7771]

12. K&R, There are *PICTURES* of KR pointing a gun at an unarmed person FIRST !!

[uponit7771]

13. So 17yr olds can open carry ar-15s in WI ?!?!?! REALLY ?!

[maxsolomon]

18. Plan on seeing a LOT of it.

Brandishing Parades, marching armed militias through black neighborhoods, liberal neighborhoods, anywhere there's intimidation to be had.

On the slippery slope to a Fascist America...

[LonePirate]

19. If he was black, the real police would have shot and killed him the same night as his murder spree.

[Lonestarblue]

22. Yes, Rittenhouse has become a poster boy for the far right, including far-right judges.

He has a good chance of walking free. In contrast, a judge in Rutherford County, Tennessee, has been locking up children, mostly black, for decades with made up crimes. Very young children have been traumatized by the judge’s illegal actions and their jail experience where they were put into solitary confinement. In spite of the notoriety, the judge is still in office and is still locking up innocent black children. Republicans seem to think that locking up innocent young black children is okay, but holding an older teenager accountable for murdering people is not okay.

These passages from an NPR story.

“Rutherford County, Tennessee, has detained a record number of children, some as young as 7 years old, in past years. Some were arrested for playground fights, others for cursing.

In one 2016 case, four elementary school-age girls were detained for failing to intervene in a fight. A disproportionate number of the children involved and arrested were Black.”

Also, the children were interviewed and most suffered after their experiences.

“They were scared they were going to get picked up at school and arrested again at any moment. There was another young man we spoke to who was kept four days and denied his medication for bipolar. After he was released, he was put on house arrest, and he tried to commit suicide three times in the coming year.”

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Dead on the spot, and whoever shot him praised as an American hero. No doubt. Two systems