Many on the left have widely condemned the not guilty verdict for Kyle Rittenhouse, but I have a different take. I think we may be seeing 12 ordinary citizens “pushing back” on Democrats weak on law and order.
Kenosha County district attorney, Democrat Michael Graveley, charged Rittenhouse with first-degree intentional homicide just two days after the incident. I’m betting that Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal team said that two days isn’t much time to review all the evidence before you try and put someone in jail for the rest of their life. Given what the videos show, sure looks like a kneejerk reaction to appease the rioters.
I could only find information about one rioter from that night back in August 2020 who is being tried. He allegedly hit a police officer in the head with a brick. Federal prosecutors took five months to bring that charge. Were others charged? Are the cases going to trial or were charges dropped?
Graveley would have been expected to personally prosecute such a high-profile case but apparently felt the case wasn’t the slam-dunk the media portrayed it as. He punted the Rittenhouse case to Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger. Binger, a Democrat, spent most of the trial getting in trouble with the judge. He couldn’t even get the charges right, and one charge got thrown out by the judge late in the case. With such a high-profile case, how does a prosecutor get something like that wrong?
Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was widely criticized for not sending enough law enforcement in the first place, and businesses were burned as a result. Within days, Evers did sign an executive order calling for a special session on “policing accountability,” but the officer who shot Jacob Blake was found to have acted properly. And then, we have Wisconsin Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul. As the state’s top cop, I wonder if Mr. Kaul feels responsible for an atmosphere where people like Kyle Rittenhouse are frustrated because Democrats appear more interested in supporting protesters instead of law and order.
This is what happens when public servants put party politics above the public they were sworn to serve, something we in Delaware experience often under one-party control.
A jury of 12 is a small polling sample, but maybe, after all the above, they made a very loud statement with their verdict.
Michael Braun
Dover
