“Last week, according to Reuters, several witnesses supported the claim that the teenager was acting in self defense.”

Should probably amend that to say “several of the prosecution’s witnesses” because that’s about how well this trial is going for them. Every single witness went on to support that Rittenhouse’s victims…

Shooting death? Jacob Blake is paralyzed but alive. 

Yeah, you know I didn’t want to be un-charitable but my first thought was I wonder if there was someone else in earshot and the deputy realized he needed to get in front of it.

Racists always think that Everyone is anti-Black...and are just holding it in. This juror clearly thought he had a kindred spirit in the deputy. And I wouldn’t doubt that the deputy WAS like-minded. But Deputy wasn’t about to let such blatant idiocy cost him his job when it’s clear the JokerJuror will definitely fuck…

Look how I’m livin’ now

Don’t catch you slippin’ now. 

That’s the thing about people who think they’re badasses, they HAVE to tell someone.

From, the article, it looks like the prosecutors did argue that the defendants’ lawyers were deliberately striking black jurors, which would be illegal. This is known as a “Batson Challenge”: https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/batson-challenge/

This is America

Just look at these fine specimens of superiority.

So... mistrial and the prosecution declines to retry?

Bruh, that optimism. Everything you said in the first paragraph is true but will not lead to the outcomes in the second paragraph for one simple reason. Police will never voluntarily give up any power they have. Individual cops may hate showing up for mental crisis calls, as evident by the fact that they show up ready…

The results revealed striking differences between the two groups: Those who were given a chance to restore justice said they saw the victim as a good person. But those who were forced simply to watch the unjust situation unfold, ended up derogating the victim, seeing her as deserving her fate. In other words, because…

I would suggest that the amount of social media commentary on this case vs the one you pointed out actually makes my point but admittedly not everyone isn’t going to see things my way.

OK you win. I admit that in all of sports history and in American high school sports specifically no parent or observer has ever had anything bad to say about a team or coach running up the score or doing anything else that might be construed as unsportsmanlike unless they were motivated by racism to do so.

No pearl clutching here.  You wondered outload, and I provided the data.  What is so hard to understand about that?

They sure as fuck don’t tell white people they are being poor sports for having the temerity to win

Yeah I notice how you kind of skipped this part: “ It wouldn’t even need to be a bad coach on the other side - just a young man furious at the continuing mocking and insult and humiliation and deciding that he will have his revenge since sportsmanship is no longer a thing.” Right? These are kids. Is it really that…

@Rainey

I’m going to paint a picture for you - imagine that you’re on the defending team, which is now down 59-0 after the first quarter, and the opposing COACH refuses to put in any backup players. There are starters on that coach’s team who have commitments to go play football at division 1 colleges. Starters with…