If Kenosha had sent these thugs home instead of giving them water and thanking them for being out there, this might have never happened.
An all white jury found a white kid innocent of murdering two people. Does anyone think if Rittenhouse was a black kid, they'd have gotten the same result.
I blame the prosecutors for not having their stuff together. But maybe they had some silly idea when you have videotape of the accused doing exactly what he's been charged with, you don't have to work that hard.
The judge deserves a lot of credit for this fiasco, from not allowing the victims to be called victims, to demanding the jury applaud a defense witness for his military service, to ranting at the prosecutors for a mild violation of decorum. He did everything he could to rig the proceedings in Rittenhouse's favor.
Of course, a dangerous precedent has been set here.. you can claim self-defense in a situation where you provoked the confrontation.