Rittenhouse is not the only vigilante the right embraces. Kyle Rittenhouse as Captain America - from a Trump campaign vet running for Congress in Ohio, on a new map that makes him a slight favorite to beat Rep. Ed Martin, the president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, called Rittenhouse a “hero.” Rittenhouse cried on the stand, but earlier appeared almost triumphant: In January, when he was out on bail awaiting trial, he posed with Proud Boy supporters in a bar wearing a shirt that read “Free as Fuck.”
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Vance told Tucker Carlson that the trial was “child abuse,” and added, “It’s an indictment of our disgusting president who called him a white supremacist even though he only shot other white people.” (The media, Vance said, “slandered and bullied a 17-year-old boy.”) A Christian fundraising site, GiveSendGo, raised money for his legal case Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted a link to another fundraiser for him. By the time a jury cleared Rittenhouse, he had already become a laudatory figure, perhaps even a role model, to the right. It is obvious - it has been obvious - that the forces that produced Rittenhouse and his forgiving jury and his lenient judge are all the same.
Yet without even the merest slap from the jurors, there is no acknowledgement of wrongdoing, no sense that justice has been done. Jails do not rehabilitate they devour and ruin. Whatever happened to Rittenhouse, his victims would still be dead and he would still be a hero to the right.
There was never any catharsis to be had here. Finally there are the jurors, who cleared Rittenhouse of all charges. Then there’s Schroeder himself, whose refusal to allow prosecutors to refer to the dead men as “victims” and bizarre behavior during the trial invited accusations of bias. Then on Monday, Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed a gun charge against Rittenhouse - widely thought to have the likeliest chance of conviction - because prosecutors had failed to note a potential loophole in the law: While it’s illegal in Wisconsin for people under 18 to possess firearms, there’s an exception for long guns, such as the AR-15 he toted, used for hunting. Candidates include the prosecutors, who undercut themselves repeatedly, such as when one of their witnesses admitted he pointed a gun at Rittenhouse before he was shot. Instead, jurors believed Rittenhouse, who claimed, weeping from the witness stand, that he had feared for his life and acted in self-defense when he decided to kill. Yet on Friday, a jury decided in his favor, having concluded that prosecutors had not adequately met the burden of proving he committed murder. The Illinois native traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year, when he was 17, during protests over police brutality, to act as a medic but instead behaved as a killer, fatally shooting two men and wounding a third. Kyle Rittenhouse did it, there’s no question about that. "When you bring all this stuff up and you just happen to have a book coming out, that's the problem.Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images "If you want to say these things then just say then and don't put them in a book," Barkley said. The motive for these barbs is unclear, with some - like Charles Barkley - believing Pippen is just trying to sell books, particularly as Pippen has previously said he didn't believe James was on the same level as Jordan or Kobe Bryant.
"That's why I always believed LeBron James was the greatest player this game has ever seen - he does everything and embodies what the game is truly about." Confusion over the Scottie Pippen book "Well, Mike didn't want to pass - he didn't want to rebound or defend the best player. "In the 1980s on the playgrounds, you'd have everyone moving the ball around - passing to help the team. "I may go as far to say Mike ruined basketball," said Pippen in the book. Now, he has discussed MJ further in his new memoir 'Unguarded', with an extract from the Scottie Pippen book having been shared. This follows Pippen's anger at how he was portrayed in 'The Last Dance', with the 56-year-old since sharing various opinions on that documentary. Pippen and Jordan were teammates for the all-conquering Chicago Bulls side in the 1990s, but Pippen has traded what was left of any friendship for a stream of insults in recent weeks. Scottie Pippen has unleashed more criticism towards Michael Jordan as the pair's feud grows ever deeper.