Fake president Joe Biden calls for calm but says Rittenhouse 'not guilty' verdict leaves him 'angry and concerned'- Says Americans should protest 'peacefully'
"In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619," New York Times Magazine's Nikole Hannah-Jones
CNN contributor Ana Navarro felt compelled to tie the Rittenhouse verdict to unrelated cases as a "stark reminder of inequity." "Rittenhouse killed two men w/an AR-15. Found not guilty. Tamir Rice was shot by police for having a toy gun. Christopher Belter raped 4 girls. Given no jail time. Two men were exonerated after serving decades for [Malcolm] X murder they did not commit," Navarro tweeted.
A CNN guest credited the acquittal to the "infantilization" of Rittenhouse because of his young age and suggested White privilege was also a factor in the outcome.
The Daily Beast downplayed Rittenhouse's self-defense argument, writing "He was found not guilty of all charges despite video evidence showing he killed people."
NBC News anchor Lester Holt suggested Rittenhouse was able to "provoke" a violent situation and then successfully claim self-defense in the court of law. "The prosecution had made the argument is that you can't provoke something and then claim it was self-defense. Maybe you can. Is that what this says?" Holt asked.
MSNBC, which was banned from the courtroom after it was accused of having one of its journalists following the jury's bus, blasted the headline on its homepage that read, "Kyle Rittenhouse trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill."
MSNBC host Joy Reid declared, "the 13th juror was the judge."
Dirtbag House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., called for a federal review of the verdict by the U.S. Department of Justice. “This heartbreaking verdict is a miscarriage of justice and sets a dangerous precedent which justifies federal review by DOJ. Justice cannot tolerate armed persons crossing state lines looking for trouble while people engage in First Amendment-protected protest,”
Fake VP Kamala Harris criticized the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial Friday in comments made to reporters as she departed Columbus, Ohio. "Well, it was a good trip and um, my impressions about the verdict–and the verdict really speaks for itself. As many of you know I’ve spent a majority of my career working to make the criminal justice system more equitable and clearly there’s a lot more work to do."
