Acknowledging that due process, presumption of innocence and unanimous jury verdicts are protections against injustice just doesn't fit with 21st century liberal political framing.
On the same day as the Rittenhouse verdict, two other major criminal cases were decided. One was a conviction by a jury in Missouri of a white police detective who fatally shot a black man, Cameron Lamb, 26, after entering his property without cause:
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@HammerDaily Did KR "threaten" anyone with the weapon prior to the shooting? Were there not multiple "racial justice" protesters carrying and actually discharging firearms? Should we consider the extralegal disarming of "threats" anymore justifiable than odious "stand your ground" laws?
@HammerDaily Framing Rittenhouse as a threat does not match the visual evidence of Rosenbaum chasing him across a parking lot. It reminds one of the many justifications for endless war. It almost always results in pointless casualties.
@wrkclasshistory#OtD 20 Nov 1975, fascist dictator General Franco, whose 1936 coup led to the Spanish Civil War, died. He killed 150-400k people. After his death the workers' assembly and strike movement continued to rock the country. https://t.co/ljaLKc4sMe
Is AOC talking about a system where 12 jurors must unanimously determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? What system of jurisprudence would be preferable?
What we are witnessing is a system functioning as designed and protecting those it was designed for.
My heart still breaks for the communities and families whose grief now compounds, and the countless others who will be denied and deprived in similar scenes across the country.
College Dems dissolve into identity internal warfare. Demands for leader to resign over tweets made at age 13, nonstop accusations of Islamophobia, xenophobia, antisemitism, anti-blackness. If its a lib org w/highly educated careerists, this is expected. https://t.co/3ZL6X5TIav
Chris Christie: "We have to be the party now that's talking about tomorrow and not about yesterday because grievance politics, vendetta politics about an election that's long over now, is not the way to show you're a leader." https://t.co/BIEqyhTljE
Nick Tosches is what happens when a misogynist chooses interesting subjects to write about and everyone mistakes that for the writer being interesting.
The Israel Defense Forces and U.S. Marine Corps completed a two-week exercise in #Israel that included joint urban-warfare training.
#USmarines#IDF#IsraelDefenceForces
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RIP. Lloyd McNeill’s Treasures (1976) remains the most comprehensive work in displaying the merits of the jazz flutist and visual artist's genius.
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