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.
Merrick Himmler’s Department of Jesters and its FBSSI goons better keep their noses out of it.
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they are cultist so no they won’t keep out of it. they’ll be looking to file civil charges or low key get their goons from an (name the agency here) to start harassing Kyle and his family. Night raid coming over unpaid taxes? who knows. the Communist find ways.
exactly what I was going to say.
If I was Kyle Rittenhouse I’d sue bidens depends clean off of him.
Ya. IMO, why the police and national guard should be present.
One thing that we have learned from this trial is that if the police are not around and the rioting thug criminals attack you, you have the right to use deadly force. It is the God given right to self defense.
I hope that the police are called and the national guard if needed.
But (mistakenly) giving out names and addresses?
WHy? It’s a local law enforcement issue, they don’t need Brandon’s advice.
I think he should sue all MSM news outlets and the hosts who help spread the lies.
Let’s go Kyle. :) Sue Biden and the democrat party.
They have to make everything about them!...................
Guaranteed Merrick and Chomo Joe are discussing options to sue him in a civil federal rights case.
The night of George Floyd some “jitterbugs” decided they were gonna do a little vandalizing and breaking into cars in my neighborhood....it didn’t take long before they were all cuffed and stuffed....our po-po here don’t play dat mess.
My take: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4014226/posts?page=52#52
Nick Sanddman’s lawyers please pick up the white courtesy phone
Nick Sanddman’s lawyers...please pick up the white courtesy phone
Why is this White House business? Shut up and look for butt polyps asswipes.
Computer stores are ordered to stay open 24 hours.
Unfortunately, this particular unelected "team" increasingly appears to hold day-to-day working authority over the President himself.
It’s beginning to get dark on the East Coast now, and Kenosha is only an hour behind.
Well, potato has a hose up his ass, so that means kamel toe is in charge of organizing the “kill whitey” riots.
So in 2020 Xiden never spoke out against violence and looting and burning but NOW he is concerned with it?! Either way it is his people doing it and MSM will cover it up. They have long worked for Democrats, and now they go beyond blaming their crimes on us. I saw an article over at NewsBusters on them going after perceived enemies of their ‘united left’, “NBC/MSNBC Banned from Rittenhouse Trial, Caught STALKING Jurors”, so give that a look. Media outlets attacking children is apparently okay so long as they are right of center like Kyle Rittenhouse and Nicholas Sandmann. Someone like Ducey should ask Raggedy Anne why those jurors were threatened because what was done to them amounts to terrorism.
No they bloody well do not.
You bay-add.
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