It is now fairly obvious that Kyle Rittenhouse will never be convicted of any of the major charges against him and Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers has read the writing on the wall. He is calling up the National Guard to deal with the rioters in Kenosha.
The question remains, whether he allows them to do their jobs or if they are just their for show and to be sacrificial lambs.
Evers made the announcement as the jury went home for the weekend. He could be sending a message to the jury that if they don’t find Rittenhouse guilty, the rioting will occur. I hope the jury does not fall for that. You can either choose what is easy or what is right.
Right is better.
Even the prosecution has given up on the murder charges after their case fell apart. They are now stressing lesser charges in order to send him to prison for at least a while.
Riots rocked Kenosha earlier in the year.
Anger over the shooting of a Black man by police in a southeastern Wisconsin city spilled into the streets of Kenosha for a second night Monday, with police once again firing tear gas at hundreds of protesters who defied a curfew, threw bottles and shot fireworks at law enforcement officials guarding the courthouse.
Kenosha became the nation’s latest flashpoint in a summer of racial unrest after cellphone footage of police shooting Jacob Blake on Sunday around 5 p.m. in broad daylight circulated on social media. The shooting drew condemnation from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who called out 125 members of the National Guard to quell protests.
Police first fired the tear gas about 30 minutes after the 8 p.m. curfew took effect and protesters refused to disperse. But hundreds of people stuck around, lighting fires and screaming at police.
The latest confrontation came after protesters set cars on fire, smashed windows and clashed with officers in riot gear Sunday night over the wounding of 29-year-old Blake, who was hospitalized in serious condition. In a widely seen cellphone video made by an onlooker, Blake was shot, apparently in the back, as he leaned into his SUV while his three children sat in the vehicle.
