Water Is Wet: White Tear Hero Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted On All Charges Despite Killing People

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In a surprise to no one who has been paying attention when considering the USA's Justice System, Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted on all charges. The scales were tipped in his favor by a judge who clearly wanted him to skate, and the jury clearly understood their assignment.

The jig was in full effect before the trial even started when the judge instructed that the two people Rittenhouse shot and killed during rioting in Kenosha, Washington couldn't be called "victims."

Reports NewsOne:

A jury deciding the fate of Kyle Rittenhouse delivered its verdict on Friday agreed that the then-17-year-old was simply defending himself from people in the Milwaukee suburb of Kenosha who the trial's judge ruled could not be called "victims" in court despite graphic video evidence to the contrary. The panel of Rittenhouse's peers that was "overwhelmingly white" reached its verdict after more than 24 hours of deliberating after the prosecution and defense made their closing arguments on Monday afternoon to conclude a trial that lasted just over two weeks.

Rittenhouse, now 18, collapsed in apparent relief after hearing the fifth and final count of the verdict as audible gasps and sobbing could be heard from others in attendance. After Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce E. Schroeder said all charges were being dismissed with prejudice and announced the official end of the trial, Rittenhouse walked quickly out of the courtroom.

Twitter's response has been what you have to expect-little surprise at the result considering the context, but anger at the fact that if Rittenhouse was a Black teen, he would have been under the jail already, if he had even made it out of Kenosha alive.

Peep some of the reactions below. And just because he was acquitted, it doesn't mean Rittenhouse is innocent, at all.

I knew it. Kyle Rittenhouse is proof that white people can still break the law, carry illegal weapons, shoot and kill people, and get away with it in America by shedding tears and claiming self-defense.

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 19, 2021

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1. Plies nails it.

Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict Proved What We Already Knew. They Get To Start Sh*t, Can't Fight & When They Start To Lose They Get To Shoot & Kill U!!! That's Why The Law Was Put Into Place Anyway. It Was Designed To Protect One Group Of People. An So Far It Has Worked Flawlessly!!!
— Plies (@plies) November 19, 2021

2.

Travyon Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old kid. He was killed carrying a bag of skittles. The right-wing called him a threat.

Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed. He shot and killed 2 people with an AR-15. The right-wing calls him a hero. pic.twitter.com/JursSJFT7j
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) November 19, 2021

3. Chill...

precedent says if you catch Kyle Rittenhouse at a St. Patricks Day parade its legal
— giabuchi (@jaboukie) November 19, 2021

4.

This is why many of us warned a Chauvin verdict was not the symbol of progress some wanted it to be.

White supremacy has a set number of acceptable losses. Kyle Rittenhouse, and his Vigilante How-To example, simply was not one of them.

They needed his blueprint.
— brittany packnett cunningham. (@MsPackyetti) November 19, 2021

5.

Kyle Rittenhouse and his judge after the not guilty verdict pic.twitter.com/g3PQsYgasI
— Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) November 19, 2021

6.

It would be in the nation's interest for the Department of Justice to file civil rights charges against Kyle Rittenhouse *today*.

The inevitable armed, lunatic copycats think they've just been given license to wage violence on the left.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 19, 2021

7.

Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims. They should be alive today.

The only reason they're not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people.

To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement. https://t.co/TwaI2ghgM5
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) November 19, 2021

8.

I can't even be upset about Kyle Rittenhouse. To be upset would be me believing this system ever worked.
— George M Johnson (@IamGMJohnson) November 19, 2021

9.

The system that has only convicted 7 cops of murder since 2005, out of 15,000 police killings, is the same system that let Kyle Rittenhouse walk. He wasn't wearing a uniform, but his role in upholding white supremacy is the same. And the system protects and rewards them both.
— Read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (@JoshuaPotash) November 19, 2021

10.

Today a white supremacist Kyle Rittenhouse who murdered 2 people & got 0 prison

Yesterday a wealthy white man Christopher Belter who raped 4 minor girls got 0 prison

But Crystal Mason a Black woman who inadvertently voted got 5 years prison

Tell me #WhiteSupremacy isnt a thing
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) November 19, 2021

11. Chris Hayes has lost the plot...

Honestly hope that kid takes the opportunity to turn his life around and tries to make the world a better place rather than pursuing the George Zimmerman Life Trajectory.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 19, 2021

12.

Every person of color knows that if Kyle Rittenhouse weren't white he would have never even had a trial- he would've been killed at the scene.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) November 19, 2021

13.

Kyle Rittenhouse being found not guilty is exactly why every American needs to learn Critical Race Theory.
— dr. jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) November 19, 2021

14.

kyle rittenhouse being acquitted on all charges after such heinous heinous crimes is the epitome of white privilege and exactly what is wrong with this godforsaken country.
— rachel zegler (she/her/hers) (@rachelzegler) November 19, 2021

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