Rep. Nadler Calls for Federal DOJ To Consider Charges Against Kyle Rittenhouse

“This heartbreaking verdict is a miscarriage of justice and sets a dangerous precedent which justifies federal review by DOJ.”

The left’s reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse being acquitted of all charges was predictable and not particularly creative. According to them, he deserves to die, rot in hell, yadda, yadda, yadda.

But one Democrat is taking things further by calling on the Biden DOJ to consider federal charges against Rittenhouse. Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, tweeted his call for a federal review just hours after the jury’s verdict was announced.

Many on the left, who so nonchalantly and callously dismiss the damage done to people and property by BLM and Antifa, support Nadler’s call for a federal investigation. It could be argued that Democrats are so accustomed to things going their way that they can’t handle it when they lose.

Nadler would be wise to step away from his emotions over the verdict and think about the repercussions of pushing the narrative that Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist who violated the civil rights of his attackers. The government failed — spectacularly! — in making that case and the Kenosha jury decided what most knew all along: it was simply a case of self-defense.

I was a kid in the early ‘90s. But looking back with what we know about BLM movement and everything that had happened during the George Floyd riots, the cops in Rodney King beatings were railroaded by the Feds. We had no Free Republic or Breitbart back then. Too bad.

I used to have subscriptions to National Review, the American Spectator, the Limbaugh Letter and a few other such magazines, and I recall some articles on the topic of the Semi Valley policemen trial.

According to one article, the prosecutor made the mistake of charging them excessively by charging them with a crime which could not be supported by the evidence. Something like "attempted murder" or some such. It said the jury would have been willing to convict them on a lesser charge, but not on the charge the prosecutor made.

At the time I speculated that the prosecutor did this deliberately because he knew he couldn't get a conviction on the charge, so he did this as a favor to his buddies the cops.

I've since read other articles on the subject, and what I have gathered from them is that the Semi Valley police officers were subsequently railroaded by the Feds.

And yes, the lack of alternate news sources made it harder to understand what was going on in the 1990s.

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