My position on Kenosha is and always has been ambiguous. First, I think Kyle Rittenhouse was a 17 year old caught in a situation over his head. He should have been tried and judged as a minor. I have never agreed with applying adult laws to adolescents.
I watched the interview with Tucker Carlson. Kyle Rittenhouse displayed a lot of immaturity and inconsistentencies. He admits pointing his gun at a number of people, but thinks that was ok. Yet he wants Gaige Grosskreutz charged with pointing a gun at him. Kyle was protecting himself. Others were trying to harm Kyle.
It was also clear that Joseph Rosenbaum got way under his skin. He said, paraphrasing, that Rosenbaum got in his face and threatened to kill him. He had nevet met him. Could not understand this behavior. He seemed to take it personally. Others knew Rosebaum was a nitwit and dealt with him accordingly.
If, note the conditional, the idiot prosecutor was going to charge at all, it should have been 2nd degree murder. I cited Wisconsin law. That would be yes, he believed he acted in self defense and thought deadly force was justified, but was mistaken. The standard is whether he made a reasonable decision based on the perspective of an average person in that situation, not his perspective.
I am not fully convinced lethal force was necessary, especially in the encounter with Rosenblob. Reasonable doubt? Possibly. I am not on a jury. I don't have to make that call. The jury should not have had to make that call. Put the kid on some kind of diversion doing community service working with the mentally ill. My concern is that self defense got dumbed down in a subtle way.
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