I don't know if anyone has pointed this out about the Rittenhouse verdict.

[Rustynaerduwell]

It implies that, if, at the moment an altercation started, someone close by shot Rittenhouse and killed him, they would have been found not guilty for the same reasons he was.

[grumpyduck]

1. Unless, of course, the shooter happened to be Black.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Or a liberal or Latinx or Jewish or Muslim or Trans or Gay or any other POC...

[PTWB]

2. Yes

Gaige Grosskreutz could have (and it can be argued should have) shot Rittenhouse when he had the opportunity. It would have been morally and legally justified. We knew that before the jury’s verdict, however.

[maxsolomon]

4. Nope. He's a "Leftist".

Ask Mike Reinoehl how that works out.

[Hoyt]

5. Should have shot him? Probably true, but that is also why Rittenhouse walked. Grosskreutz pulled his

own friggin gun and became a risk to the pissant punk who showed up with a rifle dangling from his neck.

[brush]

6. It's open season now at protest demostartions for trigger happy wingers with guns.

They'll show up just waiting for the opportunity to shoot. They have qualified immunity now.

[sop]

7. The verdict further implies that any of these heavily-armed, SEAL Team 6 wannabes, parading

around with their AR15s, wearing body armor and paramilitary paraphernalia, overrunning State Houses and other public institutions while acting in as threatening and intimidating a manner as possible, can be shot dead by anyone who feels their life is in danger.

[Johonny]

8. Unlikely the story gets caught in the RW news media

and the shooter gets convicted in relative obscurity. It was the RW news machine that pummeled the innocent narrative that set up the defense to work as it worked for Zimmerman before.

[Jeebo]

9. If any of them damn librul anarchists shot anybody ...

... the cops would immediately have swooped down on him. They would have been all over him instantly, like white on rice. But while that kid was marauding around there shooting them dirty commie pinko libruls, the cops liked what he was doing and that's why they let him go on marauding.

Which puts the hypocrisy of the right on full display.

-- Ron