Rittenhouse trial thread (multi-merged)

[nortatoga]

Nick Sandmann to Kyle Rittenhouse: 'I Am Here for You'

Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann has offered a voice of support for 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse.

www.breitbart.com

Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann has offered a voice of support for 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, having previously been slandered as a racist white supremacist by the left-wing media.

In an op-ed for the Daily Mail, Sandmann recalled the horror of being a teenage kid being slapped with some of the worst labels imaginable by the likes of the establishment media, offering a kind of kinship with Kyle Rittenhouse.

The attacks on Kyle came from the national news media, just as they came for me. They came quickly, without hesitation, because Kyle was an easy target that they could paint in the way they wanted to.
This is the problem with liberal media outlets in the United States. They want to get the story first, get the most views, make the most money, and advance the agenda from liberal patrons. These outlets cover themselves when they are wrong with small footnotes at the ends of long articles, clarifying that new information has come out and that they have updated their coverage.
News shouldn’t be a scoreboard that constantly changes. News is about coverage that includes a statement of facts that does not need to be corrected. But, the liberal media doesn’t do this.The liberal media rushes to be the first to report.

Sandmann further scolded politicians and media figures like President Joe Biden and Lebron James, telling them all to “shut up” before rushing to judgment. President Biden, for instance, referred to Rittenhouse as a “white supremacist.” Sandmann said:

From my own experience, the death threats, feeling of no future ahead, and that millions of people hate you, is enough to alter you in many concrete ways and permanently. Make no mistake: even the strongest of people cannot resist the mental impact when the media war machine targets you.

After exploring the possibility of whether or not Kyle Rittenhouse should sue establishment media outlets, Sandmann offered his sympathies:

At this time I would like to use my platform to let Kyle know that I am here for you and if you ever would like to reach out to me, I am about the only person our age to have an idea of how the media is treating you. The way the media has treated you is terrible, and you don’t have to face it alone.

Sandmann was thrust into the national spotlight in 2019 when mainstream news outlets like the Washington Post and CNN reported that he and several of his fellow students harassed a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, while attending the D.C. March for Life. Phillips told media outlets that the “Make America Great Again” hat-wearing boys blocked his path and taunted him with racial slurs.

The story appeared somewhat credible at first when viral video showed them surrounding Phillips, cheering as he banged a drum into Sandmann’s smirking face. However, the narrative took a dramatic turn when other videos surfaced showing that it was Phillips who approached the boys. Video also revealed that the boys were the ones being taunted with racial slurs at the time by an extremist group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.


Without fully investigating the matter, news outlets largely ran with Phillips’ account of what happened, smearing the boys as racists. Sandmann arguably bore the brunt of the smears, with media figures like CNN contributor Reza Aslan lashing out at Sandman. “Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” Aslan tweeted at the time.

Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” producer Jack Morrissey also said he wanted to throw the children into a woodchipper Fargo-style.” “#MAGAkids go screaming, hats first, into the woodchipper,” Morrissey tweeted.

 

[GOPerfect]

THE jury for Kyle Rittenhouse's trial was dismissed without a verdict on Tuesday, as the defense has claimed prosecutors withheld a high-resolution video that was “at the center of their case.”

In a motion filed on Monday, the teen’s defense team says the prosecution kept high-definition drone video footage of the night of the shooting during the Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha.

Rittenhouse’s lawyers claim assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger only shared a lower-quality version with the defense and didn’t use the HD version until the evidence portion of the trial had concluded, as first reported by DailyMail.com.

Binger played the high-definition footage for the jury during his closing statement, claiming it showed Rittenhouse “pointing his gun” at the crowd.

The defense made the claims in a motion that asks Judge Schroeder for a mistrial with prejudice.

Kyle Rittenhouse says he 'wanted to give first aid' to one of the men he shot

KYLE Rittenhouse made his first TV appearance on Tucker Carlson on Monday after being found not guilty in his high-profile murder trial last Friday. During the interview with Tucker Carlson, Ritten…

www.the-sun.com

I posted the entire motion a couple of posts up in this thread. Good read.

 

[livingston]

 

[BerettaGuy]

If this was a movie and I was the director this would be my ending:

Rittenhouse gets cleared of all charges, as he's leaving, the judge yells "Hey kid" - Kyle turns, "you forgot this" judge tosses Kyle his AR15, Credits roll Another One Bites the Dust plays in the background.

 

[BerettaGuy]

Keep in mind that the Jury has to walk by this crap.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Keep in mind that the Jury has to walk by this crap.

Hopefully away from court there's a few CCWs in the bunch.

 

[tirwin1]

If this was a movie and I was the director this would be my ending:

Rittenhouse gets cleared of all charges, as he's leaving, the judge yells "Hey kid" - Kyle turns, "you forgot this" judge tosses Kyle his AR15, Credits roll Another One Bites the Dust plays in the background.

The end credits roll up while in the background Kyle and friends clean up the streets from rioters. They end with the note "Kenosha 2 - This Time its Personal will be released next year."

 

[livingston]

Keep in mind that the Jury has to walk by this crap.

Do they or is there a back door they can exit ?
One would expect in this trial a large protest and prepare in advance

 

[BerettaGuy]

Do they or is there a back door they can exit ?
One would expect in this trial a large protest and prepare in advance

 

[tirwin1]

Do they or is there a back door they can exit ?
One would expect in this trial a large protest and prepare in advance

I suspect the DA purposely did not sequester the jury so they could hear the protests and be swayed by them.

 

[BuffNiag]

I suspect the DA purposely did not sequester the jury so they could hear the protests and be swayed by them.

I don’t think that is the DA’s call.

 

[Phazer]

If there really are two holdout jurors who believe that they should vote "not guilty" but are afraid to do so due to potential backlash from protesters, I'd ask them one question: If it was your teenage child being judged, and you know all of the facts of the case, would you tell jurors to "Just vote for some charge with less prison time to appease the mob?" Or, would you insist that jurors do their ethical, honorable, and lawful duty to find their child "not guilty?"

If this happened in New York, would serving as a juror on such a high-profile, politically charged, case allow one to claim "necessary cause" to qualify for a CCW permit?

 

[GOPerfect]

 

[GOPerfect]

Clear video that the DA has been hiding

 

[Phazer]

This is a veritable cluster fuck.

The jury now wants to review video that was the focal point of the prosecution but which the defense did not get to review until shortly before it was shown in court. The jury, on their own, will be able to mull over a video clip that may, or may not, show what they think it does.

From a psychologic standpoint, if one repeatedly listens to or views something, they may eventually be able to "color" the audio or image with their own preconceptions so that they hear, or see, what they want to. Or, they may eventually hear or see things that are not really there.

The best example of repetition becoming "reality" is song lyrics. I'm sure that many of us have listened to a song for years, would swear that we had the lyrics correct in our head, but were proven wrong when we finally saw the real lyrics in writing.

 

[Phazer]

Clear video that the DA has been hiding

From my viewpoint, all of these images are crap.

If you told me that three aliens, four camels, and a few clowns were in the image I'd be hard-pressed to disagree.

 

[fresch]

Without a shadow of doubt

 

[Blimey]

If this was a movie and I was the director this would be my ending:

Rittenhouse gets cleared of all charges, as he's leaving, the judge yells "Hey kid" - Kyle turns, "you forgot this" judge tosses Kyle his AR15, Credits roll Another One Bites the Dust plays in the background.

I feel bad making light of this, but after the end-credits when he's walking home a small crowd of people walk around a corner and see him. They run at him, he tries to run away, but they are catching up. The last images are him turning around, the screen goes black, and gunfire rings out.

 

[Blimey]

The end credits roll up while in the background Kyle and friends clean up the streets from rioters. They end with the note "Kenosha 2 - This Time its Personal will be released next year."

Ah well now my post looks entirely derivative. I didn't see yours when i wrote it. Great minds maybe

 

[Blimey]

Clear video that the DA has been hiding

Anybody ever thrown a plastic bag and had it fly like that? google "rittenhouse threw a plastic bag". Lots of links about this other guy throwing a plastic bag. That sure as hell was not just a plastic bag.

 

[Dr. Evil]

From my viewpoint, all of these images are crap.

If you told me that three aliens, four camels, and a few clowns were in the image I'd be hard-pressed to disagree.

They may be crap but they are clear enough to see one guy chasing another, the guy being chased turn most likely pointing the firearm. You don't see any shot. He turns again as the chaser keeps chasing until the distance closes between the two at which time the guy being chased shoots the chaser. Not much left to the imagination.

 

[BuffNiag]

Anybody ever thrown a plastic bag and had it fly like that? google "rittenhouse threw a plastic bag". Lots of links about this other guy throwing a plastic bag. That sure as hell was not just a plastic bag.

The bag had a bunch of crap in it that the mental hospital had just given him.

 

[livingston]

The Disturbing Story of the Rittenhouse Case's Mysterious 'Jump Kick Man'
The enduring mystery of the Kyle Rittenhouse criminal trial, which went to a jury Tuesday, has been the identity of "Jump Kick Man." As Rittenhouse ran away from a crowd of people, he testified that one of the pursuers hit him in the head with his skateboard. When Rittenhouse fell to the ground, Jump Kick Man flew through the air and stomped on his head. Rittenhouse fired two shots at Jump Kick Man, but missed.

Jump Kick Man, whose attack on Rittenhouse (and Rittenhouse's subsequent response) arguably led to both Huber's and Grosskreutz's actions (and Rittenhouse's response to them), has never been identified--until now.

"The Dan O'Donnell Show" can now report exclusively that Jump Kick Man is a 40-year-old Black male from Kenosha with an extensive criminal record who was at the time of the Rittenhouse shootings on probation following a conviction for domestic violence battery. He faced a maximum sentence of nine months in jail, but less than two months before he kicked Rittenhouse, he accepted a plea deal that netted him 12 months' probation. The following year, he violated the terms of his probation and was sentenced to seven months in jail.

Had Jump Kick Man been sentenced to even two months in jail instead of probation, he would not have been in Kenosha the night of the shootings. His kick, which prompted Rittenhouse to fire two shots at him, may well have provoked Huber to strike Rittenhouse with his skateboard a second time, causing Rittenhouse to shoot and kill him. That in turn prompted Grosskreutz to advance on Rittenhouse and draw his handgun on him, which caused Rittenhouse to shoot him in the arm.

The Disturbing Story of the Rittenhouse Case's Mysterious 'Jump Kick Man' | News/Talk 1130 WISN | Dan O'Donnell

In a major exclusive, Dan O'Donnell runs down the extensive criminal record of the previously unidentified man who kicked Kyle Rittenhouse in the head. Known only as "Jump Kick Man," he was convicted of a crime just months earlier and should've been in jail instead of on the street that night.

newstalk1130.iheart.com

 

[livingston]

Kyle Rittenhouse trial: Judge, attorneys in court after jury views evidence | FOX6 News Milwaukee​

 

[Phazer]

 

[fresch]

Kyle Rittenhouse trial: Judge, attorneys in court after jury views evidence | FOX6 News Milwaukee​

Why are personal computers/phones being used in a court case?

 

[repete]

The longer a jury takes deliberating usually is good news for the defense.

Having said that the one time I had jury duty we came to an agreement very quickly and it was a not guilty verdict.

Same here, but we hung out till after the free lunch.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Clear video that the DA has been hiding

Looks like powder burns on his chest.

 

[livingston]

 

[GOPerfect]

BREAKING: Prosecution in the Rittenhouse trial is now blaming Fox News and Tucker Carlson for withholding video evidence from the Defense.