The jury represented their Kenosha community better than anyone else, and they got the last word: Kyle Rittenhouse is not guilty.
The verdict is in. Kyle Rittenhouse has been found not guilty on all counts. On Friday afternoon, the jury delivered the verdict that anyone who watched the video evidence and listened to the testimony could have told you. The teenager who shot three people, two of them fatally, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the riotous summer of rage did so in self-defense. He’s not a murderer. That’s not what you would have thought if you had listened only to the prosecutor’s sometimes-slanderous arguments or watched only coverage on MSNBC, CNN, or any of the other left-wing corporate media outlets. In that case, you would have thought Rittenhouse was a white supremacist out for blood, who was driven across state lines by his mother (lie), with an assault weapon (lie) that he wasn’t legally allowed to carry ( lie), to provoke others and shoot them for sport (lie), and that he was the only one who fired shots (lie). CNN spread four different lies about Rittenhouse in the span of 15 seconds last week, if that gives you any indication of the coverage. One of the major talking points that emerged in the media and that helped lay the foundation for the prosecution’s narrative was the idea that Rittenhouse wasn’t from Kenosha, that he “crossed state lines,” and didn’t belong there. For instance, here’s how prosecutor Thomas Binger put it in one instance: In the media, the sentiment was similar.
