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The Media Lied to America
twitter ^ | Nov 20, 2021

Posted on 11/20/2021 3:39:20 AM PST by MarvinStinson



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Illinois; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: illinois; kenosha; kylerittenhouse; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; rittenhouse; rittenhousebs; wisconsin
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To: MarvinStinson

ACLU

This situation represents an outrageous failure to protect protesters by the Kenosha Police Department and Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office.


Scott Davis

Replying to ACLU

So what is your stance on Ashli Babbit?


21 posted on 11/20/2021 4:04:48 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: ronnie raygun
if he were black, killed other blacks(an everyday event in Chicago) or he killed whites the scumedia would cover themselves in the constitution and proclaim he has the right to protect himself from the white supremacist attacking him

It would have never even been brought to trial.

22 posted on 11/20/2021 4:05:13 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: MarvinStinson

Hey Anchorbaby....O.J. Simpson ring any bells?


23 posted on 11/20/2021 4:07:57 AM PST by Ouderkirk (The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intend to RULE.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Cori Bush

The judge. The jury. The defendant.

It’s white supremacy in action.

This system isn’t built to hold white supremacists accountable. It’s why Black and brown folks are brutalized and put in cages while white supremacist murderers walk free.

I’m hurt. I’m angry. I’m heartbroken.


24 posted on 11/20/2021 4:08:06 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Bkmk


25 posted on 11/20/2021 4:09:03 AM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: Made In The USA

Not surprisingly, some of the people you’d probably guess would not handle the Rittenhouse verdict well are not handling the verdict well. Toure’ wrote a piece for The Grio which is like a string of woke nonsense with no sign that he even paid any attention to the trial:

Whiteness wins again. White tears win again. White actions that would certainly be seen as criminal if committed by any other race were excused once again. We do not have a civil society when we say it’s OK for teenagers to leap into protests with semi-automatic weapons and begin firing and murdering people.

Murdering people? The whole point of the murder trial that just concluded was to determine whether Rittenhouse murdered anyone. A jury of 12 concluded he did not.

White privilege carried Rittenhouse through this trial, it gave him an even greater presumption of innocence and it gave him a judge who looked after him like a son and it gave him a jury that was almost all White and looked at him sympathetically enough to see his killings as self-defense.

Notice that Toure’s take on the trial actually could have been written before the trial. In his view, none of the facts of the case matter or are remotely relevant. Rittenhouse’s skin color and that of the jury are the only factors that matter. So, for instance, the fact that Gaige Grosskreutz admitted on cross examination that Rittenhouse didn’t fire at him until he pointed his loaded gun at the teenager’s head, doesn’t even rate a mention here.

Just because this was a White person killing White people doesn’t mean race didn’t impact this situation. Rittenhouse’s Whiteness shaped how the judge and jury saw him, and it gave him a sense of righteousness and innocence that Trayvon Martin never got.

Trayvon Martin was completely innocent…right up until he confronted George Zimmerman, started a fistfight with him, beat his head into the pavement and threatened to kill him. Once he did those things, his claims of righteousness and innocence were pretty hard to credit.

We may never know where this case turned but surely Rittenhouse’s testimony weighed heavily in the juror’s minds. He broke down sobbing in a moment that, to many, looked rehearsed, performative, and inauthentic. He looked at the jury and the judge as he shook and boohooed but no actual tears ever came out.

This is false. You can see a tear in this photo:

More to the point, he had a very similar reaction today when the verdict was read in court. He closed his eyes, he hyperventilated, and he collapsed. If he’s faking, Hollywood’s acting coaches should take notes.

He ‘cried’ uncontrollably while his attorney questioned him about what happened but not once while the prosecution asked him to relive that traumatic night.

Wrong again, Toure’. He broke into sobs once when asked about the moment he shot Joseph Rosenbaum. There was a 10 minute break in the trial and when it resumed he continued to answer questions from his attorneys and then from the prosecutors without crying again.

We also know that there’s a large part of this country that holds a great deal of anger toward what they call the woke lefty mob. They view protesters — a word they would reject in favor of rioters and looters as if protesting always involves property damage — as a bigger problem than the things they protest.

People are understandably upset by the billion-plus dollars in damage done by rioters and looters last year. They may also be upset by the dumb agenda of some of the legitimate protesters were pushing, i.e. defund the police. Of course, not every protester was violent or destructive but Joseph Rosenbaum certainly was, as were many other people who were destroying cars in Kenosha that night.

To recap, the protesters went out in the streets to let the world know that the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, was not going to be forgotten. They were concerned about violent racism.

No, Toure’, that’s not true. Jacob Blake was not unarmed. He was a man with a felony warrant who fought with police and, with a knife in his hand, walked to a car that didn’t belong to him to leave the scene. There’s no question about this since Blake admitted it on national television.

Rittenhouse went out in the streets to make sure that businesses in his father’s community were safe from people who were angry about that police shooting. Those two things are not the same.

Some people went out to legitimately protest and some people went out to burn things and smash cars. It happened the night before the shooting which is why Rittenhouse and others were there that night, i.e. to prevent more of this:

And now he’s just repeating himself:

The only person who murdered anyone that night was Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse went to trial, he cried, and the jury said go home. It sure didn’t look like self-defense to me…

Yes, and I think we all know why it didn’t look like self-defense to you.

Rittenhouse had many chances to exit that interaction and he was not then being chased and he slowed down before he shot Rosenbaum four times from several feet away. He looked like a wannabe soldier. But that’s not what the jury saw.

Maybe because the jury was paying attention to the evidence and the law instead of just looking at the skin color of the defendant.

I wish I could say this Toure’ reaction was uniquely awful but it’s not. Nikole Hannah-Jones is repeating some of the same things as are many other people. The bad information spread by the media is at least partly at fault.

Update: As she often does, Nikole Hannah-Jones has deleted her own problematic tweet.

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/11/19/toures-take-on-the-rittenhouse-verdict-is-pretty-awful-but-hardly-unique-n430472


26 posted on 11/20/2021 4:12:11 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Jack Posobiec

FACEBOOK DECLARED KYLE RITTENHOUSE A MASS MURDERER

PRESERVE YOUR RECORDS ZUCKERBERG


27 posted on 11/20/2021 4:14:52 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Jack Posobiec

Somewhere the 5 boys who were victimized by Joseph Rosenbaum are glad this day has come


28 posted on 11/20/2021 4:15:52 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: FreedomPoster

Ziminski and Grosskreutz should be on trial now.
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agreed


29 posted on 11/20/2021 4:16:31 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: MarvinStinson

Daily Socialist is more like it.


30 posted on 11/20/2021 4:16:58 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta is now a Dictatorship, there are no more “laws..”)
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To: MarvinStinson

Arielle Scarcella

Self defense is a human right.


31 posted on 11/20/2021 4:18:33 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Black and brown folks are brutalized and put in cages because they shoot and kill black and brown folks routinely. Cori Bush doesn’t want an honest conversation about race and crime in the USA.


32 posted on 11/20/2021 4:18:54 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MarvinStinson

Cori hates white people. She is also a moron.


33 posted on 11/20/2021 4:20:56 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: MarvinStinson

So acquittal by a jury of peers is not justice but a twitter mob’s echo-chamber opinion is?


34 posted on 11/20/2021 4:23:31 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: MarvinStinson

>>Update: As she often does, Nikole Hannah-Jones has deleted her own problematic tweet.

Michelle Malkin and others are documenting the Leftist insanity on this. Many are archiving the insanity. This is a good thing. They need to be confronted with it.


35 posted on 11/20/2021 4:24:37 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MarvinStinson

The left’s Best &Brightesf


36 posted on 11/20/2021 4:25:12 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: Mark17

Has there ever been a time, where the media has told the truth? ......... I was going to say Pearl harbor, but then again, ????


37 posted on 11/20/2021 4:25:25 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: FreedomPoster

NONE Of them do? Black crime is off-limits to them because they know it’s an argument they can’t possibly win under any circumstances


38 posted on 11/20/2021 4:27:19 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: MarvinStinson
Great mug shots.

Is it ok to say that society is better off with those two dead?

39 posted on 11/20/2021 4:27:41 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: JonPreston

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.


40 posted on 11/20/2021 4:31:44 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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