Reckon the only way left to protect oneselr against gun-toting arseholes to become a gun-toting arsehole. The law certainly can't do the job.

Legal Jeopardy Is Far From Over for Kyle Rittenhouse – Here’s Why
By Tom Boggioni – Raw Story

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after a jury in Wisconsin found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty after shooting and killing two Black Lives Matter protesters, a former New York prosecutor suggested that families of the victims could file civil suits with an expectation of success.

Speaking with host Kendis Gibson, Charles Coleman said it would be up to the families if they want to pursue Rittenhouse further.

“Charles, the criminal case is over, but could Rittenhouse still face anything civilly, any civil penalties?” host Gibson asked.

“He could,” the attorney conceded. “I don’t know how likely it is, but it is very possible. I think that the outcome of this criminal case certainly gives the chance of a civil case some degree of ...

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... heres-why/

Just an observation - the families of OJ's victims sued him and won even after he was found not guilty in his criminal trial.

Comedian Amber Ruffin delivers a MUST SEE response to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict.…

https://fb.watch/9p0QZUy5Zt/

Wow

The following crosses my mind;

Why is it always the person who is armed that claims "self-defense" in the use of deadly force?

It seems an unarmed person that attempts to disarm someone they see as a threat cannot claim self-defense, often because they were shot dead.

The first lawsuit isn't against Rittenhouse but rather the police who didn't stop him

Father sues Kenosha police for not doing enough to stop Kyle Rittenhouse killing his son
The lawsuit claims that Kenosha law enforcement protected armed counter-protesters
Graig Graziosi

The family of a man who was shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a racial justice protest last year is suing the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, claiming that it and the city's police did not do enough to prevent the violence that occurred.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of John Huber, the father of Anthony Huber, who was killed by Mr Rittenhouse.

Among the claims made by the lawsuit are that local law enforcement "deputised" and "conspired" with armed counter-protesters like Mr Rittenhouse.

The Kenosha County sheriff, the former chief of police and the current acting chief of police at the Kenosha Police Department are named as defendants.

“John Doe police officers of the Kenosha Police Department and Kenosha County Sheriff's Department" and the city and county of Kenosha are also named.

The lawsuit also claims that ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 04842.html

“I’m not a racist person, I support the BLM movement, I support peacefully demonstrating,” Rittenhouse said ...

Kyle Rittenhouse tells Tucker Carlson he supports Black Lives Matter
By THERESA BRAINE

Kyle Rittenhouse, who walked free on Friday after killing two people and wounding a third during protests in Kenosha, Wisc., last year, said he supports Black Lives Matter and that he’s not racist.

“This case has nothing to do with race,” Rittenhouse told Fox’s Tucker Carlson in an interview that will air Monday night. “It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense.”

“Right,” Carlson affirmed.

The two sat facing ...

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

"peacefully demonstrating" carrying an AR-15 type weapon? Really?

Three men found guilty in death of Ahmaud Arbery
The men were charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit a felony.
Janelle Griffith and Daniella Silva

Three white men were found guilty Wednesday of felony murder in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was running in their neighborhood when the defendants confronted him last year.

The nearly all-white jury convicted Travis McMichael of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit a felony.

Gregory McMichael and William Bryan were acquitted of the top charge. All now face up to life in prison.

“Even though this is not a celebration, it is a reflection to acknowledge that the spirit of Ahmaud defeated the lynch mob,” civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Arbery's father, Marcus Arbery, said outside the courthouse Wednesday afternoon.

Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery’s mother, said that her son “will now rest in peace.”

“It's been a long fight. It's been a hard fight,” she said. “I never saw this day back in 2020. I never thought this day would come. But God is good,” she said.

The McMichaels and Bryan chased Arbery in pickup trucks after they spotted him in their neighborhood outside Brunswick, Georgia on Feb. 23, 2020. Travis McMichael shot Arbery, 25, who was Black, with a shotgun at close range. Bryan filmed the fatal encounter on his cellphone.

Jury finds all three defendants ​guilty in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery

The three men were arrested months later after the leaked video brought the world’s attention to the case.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ju ... y-n1284316

Two vids at source

Trials of Ahmaud Arbery murder, Kyle Rittenhouse shed spotlight on white vigilantism
By Noreen Nasir, Sudhin Thanawala and Adam Geller The Associated Press

The trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery had vastly different outcomes. But coming just days apart, they laid bare a dangerous and long-running current in the fight for racial equality: The move by some white Americans to grab guns and take their own stand against perceptions of lawlessness, particularly by Black people.


The two cases, which ended with an acquittal for Rittenhouse last week and guilty verdicts for Arbery’s killers on Wednesday, highlighted polarizing issues about gun and self-defense laws, and racial injustice.

They also forced the questions: Who or what is being protected? And from whom? Should peace of mind for white Americans come at the expense of the protection and safety of Black Americans?

“So much of this issue about protection and safety is about the safety and the protection of whites or white property,” said Carol Anderson, historian and professor of African American studies at Emory University. “There is a hubris of whiteness. The sense that it is on me to put Black lives back into their proper place.”

Arbery, a Black man, was chased and shot to death by white men suspicious of an outsider in their predominantly white Georgia neighborhood. In Wisconsin, while both Rittenhouse and the three men he shot were white, the encounter was triggered by the 17-year-old’s decision to travel from his Illinois home to Kenosha and arm himself with an AR-15 rifle, bent on protecting local businesses from Black Lives Matter protesters.

The unmistakable connection: The idea that white men who perceive a problem “should grab a gun and wade into trouble and then claim ...

https://globalnews.ca/news/8401122/ahma ... gilantism/

"The unmistakable connection: The idea that white men who perceive a problem should grab a gun and wade into trouble and then claim self defense"

This! The the sad fact that they have gotten away with it only encourages them even more. Also, how some police set a terrible example in how they mistreat black people - and get away with it - only encourages the bigots to act on their bigotry.

Kim Potter, ex-Minnesota officer, found guilty of manslaughter in death of Daunte Wright
Kim Potter, who is white, said she meant to use her Taser on Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, but drew her handgun by mistake and fired a fatal shot.

A Minneapolis jury on Thursday convicted former police officer Kim Potter on all charges she faced for fatally shooting Black motorist Daunte Wright earlier this year.

Potter showed no emotion as the Hennepin County panel found her guilty of first-degree manslaughter, meaning she improperly used “such force and violence that death of or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.”

Jurors also found the white former officer guilty of second-degree manslaughter charge, which only required a finding of “culpable negligence” that created “unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another.”

Jurors found her guilty of the lesser charge on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. CST, according to jury forms read in court. The panel reached its verdict on the more serious charge on Thursday at 11:40 a.m., jurors said on their verdict form.

"We have a degree of accountability for Daunte’s death," Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told reporters outside court.

"Accountability is not justice ... justice is beyond the reach that we have in this life for Daunte. But accountability is an important step, a critical, necessary step on the road to justice for us all.”

The victim's mother, Katie Bryant, thanked prosecutors and community supporters during this “long fight for accountability."

“The moment that we heard 'guilty' on manslaughter 1, emotions — every single emotion that you could imagine — just running through your body at that moment," Bryant said of her reaction to the verdicts.

"I kind of let out a yelp because it was built up in the anticipation of what was to come while we were waiting for the last few days."

Potter faces a maximum of 15 years behind bars. The jury consisted of ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ou ... a-rcna9408

A bit of justice starting to seep into the legal system.

But I've already seen comments to the effect that this was completely unfair because other people have done worse and they weren't punished.

Arbery killers get life in prison; no parole for father, son
Russ Bynum

Three white men convicted of murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison Friday, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man.

Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley ordered Greg and Travis McMichael to serve life without parole for Arbery's fatal shooting and granted their neighbour, William "Roddie" Bryan, a chance to earn parole after serving at least 30 years in prison.

"Ahmaud Arbery was hunted down and shot, and he was killed because individuals here in the courtroom took the law into their own hands," the judge said before ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/arbery-kil ... -1.5731098

Don't forget that former DA Jackie Johnson was charged with trying to cover it up. Have to wait and see what happens there.

An Open Letter to Kyle Rittenhouse
Be worth it
Jeffrey Harvey

Congratulations, Mr. Rittenhouse,

You’re one of the lucky few to receive what the United States of America is quick to espouse, but rarely offers: a second chance.
Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber didn’t get one. They died in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin where you shot them in August of 2020. Rosenbaum was 36, Huber 26. That might sound ancient to you, at the age of 18. But in the grand scheme, they were both young men like you, just beginning to find their place in this chaotic and corroding world.

What turned out to be the final leg of their aborted journeys was inspired by their visceral reaction to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police during a traffic stop in Kenosha. They took to the streets to protest what they perceived as the injustice of Blake’s shooter facing no criminal charges despite the clear excessiveness of the force he used against Blake.

Sadly this letter is not about them, because you ended their lives. Their stories concluded that night in Kenosha, but you’ve been granted a reprieve. You’ve got more chapters to write. I hope, as you return to the cocoon of your past, sleeping in your childhood bed in your parents’ suburban home, you’ll give serious thought to those future chapters.

You’ll never be able make up for the futures you took from Rosenbaum and Huber, nor for the future acts of vigilante violence that may well be unleashed in your name. But you can try to atone. I emphasize “try,” because true growth takes effort. In your case it will be Herculean.

You’ll have a cadre of devils on your shoulder, whispering sweet nothings in your ear. Since you were inexplicably granted bond and allowed to live as a free man during your trial, I’m sure you’ve been following social media, so you’ve already heard them. They’re the ones bandying about phrases like “hero”, “freedom fighter”, and “patriot” in reference to you. Some of them are coming from the highest reaches of ...

https://medium.com/politically-speaking ... 17c29b41e4

Man who bought gun for Kyle Rittenhouse pleads no contest
Todd Richmond

The man who bought an AR-15-style rifle for Kyle Rittenhouse pleaded no contest Monday to a reduced charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in a deal with prosecutors that allows him to avoid prison.

Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder accepted Dominick Black's plea during a six-minute hearing. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger dropped two felony counts of intent to deliver a dangerous weapon to a minor as part of the deal.

Contributing to the delinquency of a minor is a misdemeanour punishable by up to nine months in jail, but Binger reduced the charge to a non-criminal county ordinance violation. Under the deal, Black will pay a $2,000 fine. Each felony count would have been punishable by ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/man-who-bo ... -1.5734255

‘We Need Something Different’: Protesters March in Minneapolis After Police Killing
A large crowd of demonstrators gathered downtown days after the fatal shooting of Amir Locke, 22.
Jay Senter, Sophie Kasakove and Sergio Olmos

MINNEAPOLIS — Chanting the name of Amir Locke, a large crowd of protesters marched in frigid weather in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday to voice exasperation and anger over the conduct of law enforcement officers, nearly two years after the murder of George Floyd.

Mr. Locke, 22, was fatally shot in an early morning raid at an apartment complex on Wednesday when a SWAT team for the Minneapolis Police Department carried out a search warrant involving a homicide for the police in nearby St. Paul.

Mr. Locke was not named as a suspect in the warrant, according to authorities. Nor was he a resident of the apartment, according to Jeff Storms, a lawyer representing Mr. Locke’s family, who said that Mr. Locke was staying there with a cousin.

“Say his name!” shouted protesters, who, marching together, spanned more than one city block as they walked to the police station in the First Precinct. Some carried signs that read “Justice for Amir Locke and All Stolen Lives” and “Stop the War on Black America!”

Tensions over racial justice and police violence were already elevated in the Twin Cities before the death of Mr. Locke, who was Black. The federal trial against the three ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/us/a ... oting.html

Man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery sentenced to life for federal hate crime
By Russ Bynum

The white man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery after chasing the 25-year-old Black man in a Georgia neighbourhood was sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.


Travis McMichael was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood in the port city of Brunswick. His punishment is largely symbolic, as McMichael was sentenced earlier this year to life without parole in a Georgia state court for Arbery’s murder.

Wood said McMichael had received a fair trial.

“And it’s not lost on the court that it was the kind of trial that Ahmaud Arbery did not receive before he was shot and killed,” the judge said.

Before the sentencing, she heard from members of Arbery’s family. His mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, said she feels every shot that was fired at her son every day.

“It’s so unfair, so unfair, so unfair that he was killed while he was not even ...

https://globalnews.ca/news/9044552/trav ... ud-arbery/