26 hours of deliberations by a jury composed of seven men, five women, and one person of color. it came after a trial chock full of controversy from day one starting with the judge refusing for the people shot by rittenhouse to be referred tos a victims. rittenhouse took the stand and said he was forced to act in self-defense when he shot three men. during close, statements, the defense claimed that rittenhouse, who came from kenosha, from illinois, armed with an ar-15 was there to, quote, try to help this community. the prosecution referred to rittenhouse as a, quote, chaos tourist, who was looking for trouble. the city of kenosha is on edge at this hour. ahead of the verdicts, schools had begun remote again, and the governor deployed 500 national guardsmen. the president is kulg for protests to remain peaceful saying this, quote, while the verdict in kenosha will leave many americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken.
Supremacy is a significant danger in this country, and not antifa. so what that tells us, though, is the inability of the prosecution to actually cross-examine on the bias of that witness. and then throwing out the misdemeanor gun charge? really? he threw it out. reading the statute, it is not clear to me how that stands. what it means to the jury, essentially, the jury knows there was an illegal weapons charge, and they know the judge took it away. these are very clear signals to a jury what the judge thinks about the case. and we have so many examples in this. and that s a deep problem for the belief that the justice system works. and i do feel like we are in more danger today than we were yesterday. maya, i will follow up with you. these are some of the headlines that the judge earned during the trial. judge says he let rouse randomly select jurors out of a tumbler
So he would feel in control. rouse judge in spotlight after disallowing the word victims in the courtroom. judge in rouse trial faces backlash from asian food joke. definitely not okay. what i think the president s statement speaks to this, and he puts himself in the camp of americans who feel angry and concerned. what are we left to feel about the administration of justice? well, i think one of the things that this trial has shown many people who have had the opportunity to see inside a courtroom is what black people in this country have been experiencing for hundreds of years, which is the system doesn t necessarily work fairly for everyone. because people are people. they have biases, and they bring them into courtroom. so while the system sometimes work i don t want to say it never works. but in this case, it s very hard
People interpreted the moment when he became emotional on the stan. but that was a moment when we heard from the defense attorney afterwards, he said he had no choice but to put hess client on stand to humanize him, to show that he was a 17-year-old and he believed he was acting in his self-defense. another moment in this trial is when gaming grosskreutz took the stand and admitted he was shot after he raised the gun toward the destruction of kyle rittenhouse. i think that was another moment people 30i7b9ed you. you saw this with the prosecution and the defense, the idea that both of them leaned into the cultural ideas behind this trial. the prosecution called kyle rittenhouse a vigilante. said he came here looking for trouble, that he was there creating the situation that then required the self-defense. you had the defense mentioning in parter this defense, that if
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