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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Aruntraveller on November 19, 2021, 06:37:48 PM

Title: Only in the USA
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 19, 2021, 06:37:48 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59352228

Words. Fail. Me.
Title: Re: Only in the USA
Post by: Anchorman on November 19, 2021, 07:09:09 PM
The shocking thing is that I'm not surprised.
Title: Re: Only in the USA
Post by: ad_orientem on November 20, 2021, 07:22:09 AM
Basket case of a country.   
Title: Re: Only in the USA
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 20, 2021, 03:15:40 PM
Jury finds Kyle Rittenhouse to be white on all counts  (Newsthump)
Title: Re: Only in the USA
Post by: The Accountant, OBE, KC on November 20, 2021, 03:49:12 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on November 19, 2021, 06:37:48 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59352228

Words. Fail. Me.
It seems it's ok to be a vigilante and go out armed looking for trouble and kill someone. Death Wish 2,786,424,443 here we come.
Title: Re: Only in the USA
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on November 20, 2021, 04:54:35 PM
Quote from: Violent Gabriella on November 20, 2021, 03:49:12 PM
It seems it's ok to be a vigilante and go out armed looking for trouble and kill someone. Death Wish 2,786,424,443 here we come.
I think there is another case going on. Somebody who ran after a car and shot the driver dead for stopping in the street outside his house is claiming ''stand your ground'' in Texas.
Title: Re: Only in the USA
Post by: jeremyp on November 20, 2021, 06:09:40 PM
Part of the problem is that the media in the USA has been pushing a certain narrative. In the moment that Rittenhouse shot those three people, the jury has decided that he feared for his life. The jury has seen all the evidence and we, for the most part, have seen a narrative created by the media.

The facts of the case, rather than the narrative we want to believe always made this a difficult ask for the prosecution.