Is America burning? (Black Lives Matter protests, civil unrest and riots 2020)

[Nylock]

WTAF?!?

 

[Ax^]

The protester who said he pulled a gun first has fucked this. Self defense now.

just proves how seriously in the wrong direction the US Justise system has gone if

after openly carrying a weapon and asking witnesses were the flash points where, as well as link to group like the proud boys


a kid puts himself volentery in danger with an ar15, and after shooting 2 people

he can claim self defense as the crowd turned on him and someone pulled a gun




seriously if this case stands i'll wait for the first guy to robs a bank/store/house and get chased

and shoots at them in self defense

 

[Ming]

I think he’ll get off. I also think the verdict will kick off protests where both sides will be shooting.

 

[two sheds]

There was a video on reddit apparently showing the judge's phone ringing with a ringtone as the tune Trump used to go on stage.

I'd assumed it was fake but Guardian has it apparently so it must be true

Kyle Rittenhouse judge in spotlight after angry reprimand of prosecution

Bruce Schroeder snaps at prosecutors and queries iPad footage as defense rests case in homicide trial

www.theguardian.com

Schroeder heavily admonished prosecutors in the trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, questioned the authenticity of some pinch-to-zoom footage presented in evidence, and apparently forgot to silence his phone in court, which at one point rang with a song used at Donald Trump’s rallies.

 

[Ming]

There was a video on reddit apparently showing the judge's phone ringing with a ringtone as the tune Trump used to go on stage.

I'd assumed it was fake but Guardian has it apparently so it must be true

Kyle Rittenhouse judge in spotlight after angry reprimand of prosecution

Bruce Schroeder snaps at prosecutors and queries iPad footage as defense rests case in homicide trial

www.theguardian.com

Yeah i read that story.
I think the right (internationally) are being deliberately publicly contemptuous of institutions which constrain their ambitions (like the legal system and other democratic safeguards and checks and balances) to undermine the public’s trust in them.
I think they want a return to the divine right of kings. With god being the market and the genius of the billionaire.
That’s what i‘d do in their shoes anyway (If i was a psychopathic objectivist cunt which for the record I’m not).

 

[krtek a houby]

Yeah i read that story.
I think the right (internationally) are being deliberately publicly contemptuous of institutions which constrain their ambitions (like the legal system and other democratic safeguards and checks and balances) to undermine the public’s trust in them.
I think they want a return to the divine right of kings. With god being the market and the genius of the billionaire.
That’s what i‘d do in their shoes anyway (If i was a psychopathic objectivist cunt which for the record I’m not).

About that avatar...

 

[Ming]

About that avatar...

It's actually my last cat's name
Merceless with questionable hygiene.
I'm cool.

 

[editor]

Nicely put

 

[NoXion]

Crocodile tears from the fascist little shit.

 

[two sheds]

Judge seems to be doing all he can to let the fascist little shit off:

Judge’s ‘Asian food’ joke draws more scrutiny onto Rittenhouse trial comments

Heightened scrutiny into judge’s behaviour follows high-profile case intertwining issues of white vigilantism, the Second Amendment and criminal justice

www.independent.co.uk

On Wednesday, Judge Schroeder admonished prosecutors several times over lines of questioning, paused testimony to question the veracity of “pinch to zoom” features on an iPad to review video evidence of Mr Rittenhouse pointing his gun, and forgot to silence his smartphone’s ringtone of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”.

...

On Wednesday, Judge Schroeder appeared sympathetic to defence attorneys who sought to block zoomed-in video evidence by claiming that Apple uses “artificial intelligence” and “logarithms” to create “what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there”.

Judge Schroeder suggested that prosecutors provide expert testimony to dispute that.

He acknowledged that he lacked technical proficiency and claimed not to know about some of the topics raised during pretrial hearings – including the nationalist Proud Boys gang, who offered support to Mr Rittenhouse after the shootings. In January, Mr Rittenhouse also appeared in a photograph with alleged members as he wore a “Free As F***” T-shirt while making an apparent “OK” hand gesture associated with white nationalists. That image was not shown to the jury.

“The first time I saw it, or a version of it, was Chef Boyardee on a can of spaghetti,” Judge Schroeder said of the hand gesture in pretrial hearings in September. He ruled that such evidence would be too prejudicial

On Thursday, Mr Binger [prosecuter] mentioned that he was “under the court’s ire” from the previous day, as he tried to make the case that the defence was able to use witness testimony outside the court’s order, despite the judge reprimanding Mr Binger for trying to do the same.

“You know, I don’t want to talk about it,” Judge Schroeder replied.

"too prejudicial"

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Crocodile tears from the fascist little shit.

I would agree with you, but I don't think there were any actual tears involved.

 

[krtek a houby]

Some social media chatter today was a wee bit upsetting. But predictable. Online fash on his side, of course, claiming that more Kyles needed to deal with the real fascists - antifa and BLM.

FFS.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

It's so obvious he's gonna walk free. I hope someone takes the little cunt out. They fucking need to.

 

[Idris2002]

It's so obvious he's gonna walk free. I hope someone takes the little cunt out. They fucking need to.

Don't be a twat.

 

[Ax^]

if he walk he is going to be a figurehead for the alt right

someone shooting him after release when he has an entourage would be fitting


i was fearing for my life, judge

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

if he walk he is going to be a figurehead for the alt right

someone shooting him after release when he has an entourage would be fitting


i was fearing for my life, judge

He'll be a figurehead either way. If he goes to prison, they'll consider him a political prisoner, instead of a convicted murderer. If someone shoots him then he's a "martyr."

 

[teqniq]

He'll be a figurehead either way. If he goes to prison, they'll consider him a political prisoner, instead of a convicted murderer. If someone shoots him then he's a "martyr."

Yeah it's a lose lose situation all round. The judge though - he sounds like a fully paid up member of the KKK.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Yeah it's a lose lose situation all round. The judge though - he sounds like a fully paid up member of the KKK.

He has a reputation as a "tough sentencing" judge. I bet that's only when the defendant is black or brown.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Judge seems to be doing all he can to let the fascist little shit off:

Judge’s ‘Asian food’ joke draws more scrutiny onto Rittenhouse trial comments

Heightened scrutiny into judge’s behaviour follows high-profile case intertwining issues of white vigilantism, the Second Amendment and criminal justice

www.independent.co.uk

"too prejudicial"

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Don't be a twat.

I don't have to be. You're doing that for me.

 

[Idris2002]

I don't have to be. You're doing that for me.

The infamous reverse-twatting, the tragedy of our times.

Seriously, do you realise just how bad things could get over there? Even if it was a north of Ireland low-intensity conflict they'd be lucky to keep casualties below a million.

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't be a twat.

Too late

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Idris2002 thankfully you're on ignore now.

 

[Idris2002]

Idris2002 thankfully you're on ignore now.

 

[Idris2002]

Idris2002 thankfully you're on ignore now.

 

[extra dry]

AlJizzHere channel news about the trials going on that the moment, the fight against white nationalists/neo-supremacists in law and the court system, white supremacists and white Power

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Well this is utter nonsense:

Judge opens path for jury to clear Kyle Rittenhouse on firearm possession charge

The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial on Friday said he'll instruct the jury that unless the state proved the teen's AR-15-style rifle had an unlawfully short barrel, he can't be convicted of being a minor in possession of a firearm.

No such evidence was introduced, so it seems likely Rittenhouse will be acquitted on the one charge that seemed obvious to everyone but his lawyers who challenged it from the very start. It might not even get to the jury.

MSN

www.msn.com

He was a minor, in possession of a weapon. He plainly violated both the spirit and letter of the law, but he's going to walk on all counts.

 

[hitmouse]

Well this is utter nonsense:

MSN

www.msn.com

He was a minor, in possession of a weapon. He plainly violated both the spirit and letter of the law, but he's going to walk on all counts.

Fucking hell, that'd be weird. I can see how there's arguments to be made about the self-defence thing, but arguing that his gun is not a gun seems like a whole other level of legal nonsense?

 

[Ming]

When he gets off Scott free I can see another LA riots/Rodney King type situation. But worse and for longer.

 

[two sheds]

Well open season if he gets off