"Ha, let the boy be black and it would’ve been life, hell he would've had his life taken before the bullshit trial.
"We just witnessed a system built on white supremacy validate the terroristic acts of a white supremacist," tweeted Colin Kaepernick, the American footballer and racial justice activist who initiated the national anthem protests that roiled the NFL.īubba Wallace, the only black driver in the top flight of hugely popular NASCAR racing said the verdict would have been different had Rittenhouse been Black. "That a teenager could travel across state lines to a protest he had nothing to do with shoot three people, killing two and face no criminal consequences is a miscarriage of justice and an indictment of our criminal justice system," Watts said.įor many athletes of color, the verdict represented a US justice system weighted against minorities. The jury deliberated for a total of 26 hours over four days before delivering a unanimous verdict of not guilty on all counts.Ī supporter of Kyle Rittenhouse reacts to the not guilty verdict / © The most serious charge - intentional homicide - carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Rittenhouse faced five charges - one count of intentional homicide, one count of reckless homicide, one count of attempted intentional homicide and two counts of recklessly endangering safety. View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries DetroitYES. A Verulam magistrate has denied bail to siblings Dylan and Ned Govender, who are accused of murdering Mondli Majola in Phoenix during the height of the July civil unrest. Shoot to kill anyone who pass their barriers Last edited by Danny April-29-15 at 01:40 PM. The civil unrest and protests began as part of international reactions to the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man who was murdered during an arrest after Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis Police Department officer, knelt on Floyd's. Detroit Police, Michigan National Guard, the other suburban police forces were ready this time. The George Floyd protests are ongoing protests against police brutality and racism that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. Prosecutors dismissed the self-defense claim, saying it was the then 17-year-old Rittenhouse who "provoked" the events during a night of unrest in Kenosha. There were small civil unrest during the 68 MLK riots.
Rittenhouse testified during the two-week trial that he shot dead two men and wounded another with his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle after being attacked. Protestors also marched in Chicago and New York, while in Portland demonstrators clashed with law enforcement and damaged buildings.
Several opponents marched around beating drums and chanting "Guilty, guilty, the whole system is guilty as hell." A woman reacts, in anger, to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict outside the courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin / ©