Posted on 11/19/2021 12:26:38 PM PST by Red Badger
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the Biden administration has been in communication with local law enforcement in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of possible unrest following the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case.
A jury of seven women and five men declared Rittenhouse, who was accused in the shooting deaths of two men on a night of riots and protests last year, not guilty on all five charges on Friday afternoon. The most serious charge would have carried a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Psaki on Friday said that the White House “has been in close touch with officials on the ground through law enforcement channels” to ensure they are “supporting any effort towards peaceful protests.”
“That’s certainly what we will continue to encourage as anyone looks to have their voice heard, regardless of the outcome,” she continued, without offering a comment on potential riots, arson, and unrest.
The verdict was read while Psaki was speaking to reporters. She declined to comment.
“Obviously this happened while I was out here,” she told reporters. “Let me talk to the president and talk to our team and we will get to a statement as soon as we can.”
“I’m not going to give an assessment of this from here,” Psaki said, adding: “Let us get you a statement as soon as we can.”
Rittenhouse, during the trial, had testified that while armed, he traveled to Kenosha to protect local businesses from being burned down during riots, arson attacks, and looting that erupted alongside protests after the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake.
This week, protesters began to congregate outside the Kenosha Courthouse. Some of them appeared to make threats of violence.
“We’ll shut everything down,” one protester shouted Friday ahead of the jury’s verdict. “The justice system, this whole system.”
As he dismissed the jurors who sat in judgment in the politically combustible case, Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder assured them the court would take “every measure” to keep them safe.
A sheriff’s deputy immediately whisked Rittenhouse out a back door through the judge’s chambers. In reaction to the verdict, prosecutor Thomas Binger said the jury had spoken.
Rittenhouse’s mother, sitting several feet away from him on a courtroom bench, gasped in delight and began crying as the clerk read out the string of five not-guilty verdicts. She hugged others around her.
Previously, Gov. Tony Evers pleaded for calm and said 500 National Guard members would be ready for duty in Kenosha if needed.
Stand down orders issued ..
“Tragic accident” forthcoming?
“stand down”
Biden is soooooo stupid.
Is President Retard going to control his raving lunatic libtard monkeys when they go crazy again? 🤪
CBSN reporting that Biden stated he “stands by the decision of the jury”.
Stay the fk out of it, Biden.
Probably,
Let’s hope for 1000 young Kyle’s with loaded weapons full of hydroshoks...patrolling the streets
Has Joe, and his grifter family put their orders in with the looters yet?
Be warned, though. The angry mob will do more than just burn and loot. The will probably be armed.
Here yago, Kyle for sheriff!!!
Heads popping like kingsmen 1
Well shit.
Let's get this party started.
Merrick Himmler’s Department of Jesters and its FBSSI goons better keep their noses out of it.
White Antifa lives matter.
“What new charges can we bring here?”
And “don’t call them looters.”
This is certainly not funny but your comment got a wide smile out of me! 🙂
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