Kyle Rittenhouse got away with murder because he was able to convince a Wisconsin jury that he was acting in self-defense after he admitted to killing two people.
It is not surprising. If Rittenhouse was black, there wouldn't have been a trial because the police who aided him would have shot him dead. It was well known that Judge Bruce Schroeder had big problems with the statute and that he was going to dismiss the charge against Rittenhouse. Criminal court judges have a duty to interpret the validity of a law.
The trial shone a spotlight on how broken the system is in America, or how perfectly it is functioning as an intended tool to extend white supremacy, depending on how you frame it.
The worst people in America celebrated the verdict on Friday. Rittenhouse is a hero to the right wing in this country. The word "the" was not included in her excitement about the killer of two people facing zero consequences for his actions.
Two people are dead, another is hurt, and these people are overcome with joy.
The opportunity to use Rittenhouse's acquittal to allude to his own situation, allegations of sexual assault that, again, are severe and credible enough that his season ended in June, was too much for 2020 National League Cy Young winner and 2021 MLB administrative leave stalwart Trevor Bauer.
People are dead and lives are ruined again. This guy decided that it was the perfect time to make a point about the media.
Bauer missed the point. It was not about not knowing all the facts. There was no dispute about the facts. Those people were killed by Rittenhouse. He traveled from Illinois to Wisconsin with a gun. He found it. The fact that Rittenhouse was acquitted of murder charges does not exonerate him from facing a civil suit from his victims' families.
The criminal justice system is not the end-all, be-all of determining facts or liability. Major League Baseball is not a Wisconsin courtroom and he missed a half-season because of that.
