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3 years ago
I don’t imagine that the top attorneys in the US chose Kenosha Wisconsin as their place of employment. Never ascribe corruption as a motive when incompetence can explain what happens.
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3 years ago
Hearsay: information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor.
You can assess someone’s motive without relying on hearsay. In this case, they were armed, a witness heard them declare they would kill the guards if they got them alone, they were trying to burn cars/buildings, they had prior convictions for violent offenses. All of these facts speak to motive.
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3 years ago
The terms hearsay, self defense, and vigilante all have very specific definitions under the law. You ignore those definitions and use the terms in ways that have no meaning.
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3 years ago
People keep throwing around the term “ murder”. The definition of that word is “ kill unlawfully with premeditation”. Yes, Rittenhouse killed someone. But, as to whether it was murder, determining whether that is true is the purpose of the trial.
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3 years ago
“The jury is going to decide.”
Probably but not necessarily.
At the end of the prosecution’s portion of the trial, the judge could declare that the prosecution has not presented sufficient evidence for a reasonable jury to find the defendant guilty. It’s rare, but it happens.
Given the surprise testimony from their primary witness, the chance of a directed verdict is not negligible.
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3 years ago
Now that we know that Rittenhouse wasn’t the initial aggressor, it seems he is being criticized with variations of “ he had no business being there “, “ he had it coming”, or “ nothing bad would have happened if he stayed home”. Really ?
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3 years ago
99% of Trump voters ( including me ) don’t know what a QAnon is or where you would find it. The only time we see the term is when someone on the left uses it to disparage people on the right. It’s another magic word, like racist, fascist, nazi, or white supremacist used to disparage others without needing to know any facts or craft a logical argument.
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3 years ago
All the lawyers on the prosecution should lose their law license.
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3 years ago
Incidentally, the Mayor of Kenosha, the prosecutor, and the lead detective are all from the same Armenian-American family. The Mayor, in particular, has been desperate to distract attention from the piss poor job he did in protecting the town.
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3 years ago
The Kenosha detective just admitted that the prosecutor told him to not look at the contents of Grosskreutz phone. WTF !
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3 years ago
Here’s the moment
https://t.co/PHZnHS5rD9
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3 years ago
The defense just got a prosecution witness to admit Rittenhouse didn’t fire his gun until after the witness pointed a pistol at him.
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3 years ago
The left has certain words that can justify its actions. Utter one of those magic words and it turns illegal and despicable acts into bravery.
Antifa has been attacking innocent people and businesses for years, claiming they were bravely opposing “racists” and “Nazis”, including when they burned black owned businesses in Minneapolis.
The latest magic words are “domestic terrorist” which allows the DOJ and FBI to harass and indict anyone who oppose the Biden administration or its ideas.
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3 years ago
Wait, so a bunch of young men dressed in black descend on a town in the Midwest with the intent of burning it down but it’s the people who are guarding the businesses who are domestic terrorists ? Well, that’s one way to look at it.
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3 years ago
Video that the FBI and prosecutors kept hidden for a year, but was recently leaked to the media, shows someone firing a shot at Rittenhouse just before he returned fired. Witnesses for the prosecution said the man killed had told people guarding the property, including Rittenhouse, that he would kill them if he found them alone during the night.
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3 years ago
He was clearly making a joke. A bad joke, and one in bad taste, but, still, a joke.
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3 years ago
Anyone know if HL is still scanning IDs in the afternoon ?
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3 years ago
Here’s a fact and a theory.
Half the people in America are “ right wing”
People on the left tend to associate only with people on the left. They assume that people with right wing views are an extremely small minority. When half the people on a forum espouse right wing views, people on the left assume it’s an aberration. It isn’t. It just mirrors the overall population.
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3 years ago
There will occasionally be tension between the extras dancers and the non extras dancers. But, yes, it’s mostly dancers agreeing that customers are scum. Especially customers who post on TUSCL.
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3 years ago
For those that care, this is a good outline of the criminal and civil legal issues.
https://lawofselfdefense.com/alec-baldwin-shoots-woman-dead-innocent-accident-or-involuntary-manslaughter/
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3 years ago
“ As much as I dislike Baldwin, this isn't his fault. “
Not only is Baldwin acting in this movie, he is the Producer. As a result, he is ultimately in charge of all safety procedures and hiring the people to carry them out. The fact that there were 3 prior incidents, that he didn’t correct as producer, makes him all the more guilty.
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3 years ago
“However, the source who was on set when Baldwin discharged the prop gun on Thursday said the cast and crew were told it was a ‘cold’ firearm during the rehearsal as they were setting up the framing. And despite Baldwin having recently gone through a firearm-safety training session, the source said safety protocols were all but ignored by both Baldwin and the responsible production members.”
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3 years ago
Brandon Lee put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. It was a blank but, at close range, it is still fatal
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3 years ago
The LA Times is reporting a couple interesting things
-The camera crew walked off the set hours before the shooting as a protest against working conditions. It is unknown whether the prop master also walked out.
- There were other problems with prop guns on the set prior to the shooting.
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3 years ago
In 2017, Alec Baldwin attacked a SoCal police officer who fatally shot a suspect in a parking lot of a convenience store.
“I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone,” Baldwin tweeted.