Posted on 10/27/2021 1:15:12 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Princeton University professor and network contributor Eddie Glaude, Jr. said that the judge who decided the deceased should not be called victims during the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse shows the criminal justice system has bias.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski said, “The judge in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot and killed two protesters last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a protest against police brutality has ruled prosecutors cannot refer to the people he killed as victims. But the defense is allowed to call them arsonists or looters, or rioters. While laying the ground rules for the upcoming trial, Judge Bruce Schroeder said, ‘The word victim is a loaded word. And I think alleged victim is a cousin to it. Rittenhouse faces multiple felony charges of homicide and recklessly endangering the safety of others, among other charges. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The incident occurred after a white Kenosha police officer shot and injured a black man named Jacob Blake as he was attempting to enter his car. Blake, who had a warrant out for his arrest, survived but was paralyzed from the waist down. The shooting led to multiple nights of protests which turned destructive. Rittenhouse said he went to the demonstrations to help protect businesses from looters when he was attacked and that he acted in self-defense. The trial is scheduled to begin on Monday. Eddie Glaude, last time I checked, someone who is shot dead is a victim.”
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If Rittenhouse were a black man being chased and beaten by white men it would be called self defense. Which it was.
OK, Prof. Prove it.
Sorry eddieee, judges, in general, don’t allow the term “victim” because it generates prejudice and works against logic to determine guilt or innocence.
Poor fella - he must have Tourettes or be prone to verbal transpositions. He got his colors mixed up.
No, they’d be called “white supremacists”…
Rittenhouse killed white guys. One guy was a bit ambiguous but certainly no one he shot was unequivocally black. And certainly two were white. This was not a white on black crime. This was a thug on kid crime.
If Kyle were black, this wouldn’t be going to trial.
Bingo. Two posts of the day awards.
A victum is not someone who starts a fight. Victimhood is the purpose of the trial. Who is the victim? The dead person is not always the victim. Brian Laundrie is dead. But is he a victim?
If a black man shot and killed white protesters, he wouldn’t have been charged, would have been labeled a hero, and given a medal for ending the lives of angry, white supremacists.
Who was the victim is the essence of this case. For the judge to allow the protesters/rioters/arsonists/armed convicted felons (all those names are facts not in contention) who were chasing Rittenhouse to be called “victims” would be to prejudge the case. You would hope that a Princeton professor of any race could understand the legal logic of that. It has zip to do with race, and everything about a fair trial for the defendant.
Hey, now, this is 2021. Kyle could still, "identify" as black!
Rachel Anne Dolezal, AKA Nkechi Amare Diallo did it. Admiral Levine is a special little fat girl. Heck, Michael Jackson grew up in the projects and became a very rich, white woman! /S
He would have a statue made of him.
If Kyle was black and the victims white no charges would have been brought against him.
White guy shoots three other white guys and this wacko is trying to make it about race?
Right you are.
Eddie Glaude, Jr. is a major league doofus.
Not one word.
But the moment three white felons got shot they trampled each other in their eagerness to get to a microphone to call for an end to the violence.
So.... black lives, especially innocent black lives, do not matter.
But white felon rioter lives do.
Sounds a little... racist.
There a word for people who see everything through the prism of race.
it time these racist bigots in the Lying Media be called on their overt racist behavior.
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