The attempt was to abolish the concept of self-defense.
To the relief of many, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is over and a Kenosha County, Wisconsin, jury found Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts. While they believed that Rittenhouse acted legally in self-defense, it is clear that the vast majority of progressive American mainstream journalists believed him to be a murderer and would accept no other explanation.
Now it is one thing to believe something but quite another to throw out false information in the hopes that media members can help rig a conviction, and that is what was seen in the coverage of this case, from pretrial, the trial itself, and to the current moment. Furthermore, the progressive mainstream media coverage of this case goes well beyond the simple falsehoods we heard on a regular basis and threatens the fundamental rights of the accused that have been a bedrock of US criminal law since before the founding of the republic.
Following the verdict, I turned on MSNBC, which has been a leader in the false claims that Rittenhouse was a so-called white supremacist who went to Kenosha to hunt and kill people. The network has not disappointed in its postverdict coverage, beginning with the accusations by a panel of attorneys, law professors, and an official with Black Lives Matter. We heard that this was another Emmett Till verdict, that the judge in the trial was a white supremacist who rigged an acquittal, and that the entire case was about promoting white supremacy.
