Juror dismissed in the Rittenhouse trial for making a racist joke about Jacob Blake.

[Nevilledog]

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Melissa Espana
@MLEspana
A juror was dismissed in the Rittenhouse trial for making a joke about Jacob Blake.

The joke was: “Why did Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake seven times? Because they ran out of bullets.”

WATCH Day 3 of trial:

Rittenhouse prosecutor will move to remove juror caught ‘telling a joke’
KENOSHA, Wisc. — When the third day of the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse begins Thursday morning, the prosecutor will push for the removal of a juror who was caught telling a joke. The Milwaukee…
wgntv.com
7:47 AM · Nov 4, 2021

[dsc]

1. this could be bad for either side

depending on the context he was telling the joke. I could see this as being gallows humor from a person disgusted with the police or it could be more approving humor.

[jimfields33]

2. Dumb juror. Racist though? You added that?

I don’t see that anywhere in the article.

[Nevilledog]

4. Yeah, I added it because 1) It's true, and 2) It's fucking true.

[jimfields33]

5. I only ask because the stupid joke has been around for decades

I remember some idiot say that joke about osama bin lauden .

[Effete Snob]

8. The "joke" seems to be a commentary on trigger-happy police

[Hortensis]

9. Is this guy known to be like that? Joke could also be bigoted against police

or could be referring to police but just one of those wry commentary jokes with a core of truth.

[Nevilledog]

10. I think it could be racist AND a commentary on police violence.

[Hortensis]

12. True! We contain multitudes. :)

[Doodley]

14. Good point. I didn't see it that way when I first read it, but it could be

saying the police would have shot him more times if only they had more bullets, a metaphor for saying the police are racist killers. .

[lagomorph777]

3. Now can we remove the racist judge?

[underpants]

6. I'll be shocked if he gets convicted

[Wounded Bear]

7. Sadly, you're probably right...

I've got RW gunners on my other site cheering him on and posting all the talking points about how he's some kind of hero.

[underpants]

16. Look what happened with Bundy and the park take over

They just need one juror and this brat gets off.

[Sneederbunk]

17. At least there is not a racial component.

A NG verdict will probably not result in riots.

[Hortensis]

11. The technique's worth noting for anyone who really wanted off a jury,

though a bad idea if it'd offer your name up to 20 million scumoftheearth social media hoodlums. I don't want to think of the death threats that must be flooding in to everyone searches associate with his name. He should at least have chosen a joke that could be taken as hostile to only one "side," instead of by anyone in the mood.

[LiberatedUSA]

15. Do Twitter death threats ever go anywhere?

Like if the person you are threatening lives in the middle of a GOP area, they likely own lots of guns and would welcome someone to come to their home and try it.

Then of course there are the few people lucky enough to live off a portfolio and don’t have to work. If you can’t get them fired because they don’t have to work…and they are like the first paragraph…they are essentially immune to Twitter response.

[Effete Snob]

18. It's more or less a given that if someone becomes associated with any news story...

...then they will get death threats from someone.

The threats are either (a) angry people blowing off steam, or (b) people posing as an opponent and seeking to make actual opponents look bad.

But the media trope of "X has been receiving death threats" is unhelpful, and drives (a) and (b).

One might look at all of the "today's person in the stocks for upsetting people on social media" and note that approximately zero physical harm has ever come to any of them, in order to assess how seriously one SHOULD take social media "death threats". But the ability to claims "those nasty people have been sending me death threats" is itself a valuable token in the game.

[Chille]

13. tasteless jokes

are just that, tasteless and useless and he should be removed.

How did this get to be racist?